Navalny's trial without Navalny. Day fourteen

The Leninsky Court of Kirov is on the fourteenth day of the trial in the case of theft at the Kirovles State Unitary Enterprise. On Thursday it was planned to interrogate the defendants Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov, but Navalny did not come to court - on that day he was supposed to appear before the Investigative Committee. Prosecutors asked to change his preventive measure - from recognizance not to leave the place to arrest, but Judge Blinov refused the request. PublicPost broadcast the proceedings.

15:07 Daniil Kolomiychuk/PublicPost

The court decided to subject Navalny to forced arrest. Bailiffs must do this on June 17. The hearings will continue then.

15:04 Daniil Kolomiychuk/PublicPost

Blinov: “The prosecution’s request to change the preventive measure will not be granted.”

Navalny remains under recognizance not to leave.

15:00 Daniil Kolomiychuk/PublicPost

Judge Blinov came out. Reads out.

14:54 Vladimir Varfolomeev, “Echo of Moscow”

Navalny’s arrest in Kirov on Belykh’s birthday will be strong, of course.

14:52 Alexey Navalny

It’s so cool when everyone writes messages “comment on our channel about your arrest.” Here it is, THE ERA OF NEW MEDIA.

14:52 Ksenia Sobchak, TV presenter

I don't believe it! Will they really do this?

14:44 Daniil Kolomiychuk/PublicPost

Navalny writes on Twitter : “Ha-ha. A Channel One car drove up to our office. They are waiting for spectacular shots.”

And he adds: “Well, by the way, I’m sure that they won’t arrest me. Otherwise, why did they let me out of the Investigative Committee building? If they had decided to close it, they would have closed it there.”

14:43 Alexey Navalny

While you are all discussing my arrest, I managed to hold a meeting at the Foundation. And you too will get busy with something.

14:18 Alina Grebneva, correspondent for Echo of Moscow

and how they thought of everything (further a bad word). Failure to appear in court means arrest; failure to appear in court means arrest.

14:17 Daniil Kolomiychuk/PublicPost

The court leaves to make a decision - to arrest Navalny or leave him under recognizance not to leave. Break until 15:00.

14:14 Anna Veduta, press secretary of Alexei Navalny

Davydova points out that the investigator’s letter to the court does not indicate the telephone number on which Nesterov called Kobzev. + he did not call Navalny and Mikhailova.

Photo: RAPSI

14:13 Anna Veduta, press secretary of Alexei Navalny

Once again: a preventive measure in the Investigative Committee is a written undertaking not to leave Moscow. That is, Alexey simply COULD NOT go to Kirov when he had an investigation in Moscow.

14:10 Daniil Kolomiychuk/PublicPost

Davydov’s lawyer explains why Navalny could not come to court - “Navalny notified the court in advance that he had investigative actions scheduled for June 13 at the Investigative Committee.”

Investigator Nesterov states in his letter that the investigative actions at the Investigative Committee were postponed, and he could not reach Navalny’s lawyers.

14:09 Alexey Navalny

Oh, the prosecutor's office in Kirov is asking for my arrest. What a beauty.
It's an awkward feeling when you retweet tweets about prosecutors seeking your arrest.

14:02 Daniil Kolomiychuk/PublicPost

We continue the broadcast.

Prosecutors are asking for “preventive measures in the form of detention” for Navalny. They believe that the defendant, by not appearing in court, showed contempt of court.

The defense objects: “The issue of changing the preventive measure must be discussed in the presence of the defendant.”

12:43 Alexey Navalny

They finally let us into the IC.

12:28 Daniil Kolomiychuk/PublicPost

Navalny writes from the Investigative Committee:

“So, I would like to record that I have been in the Investigative Committee at the checkpoint with my lawyers for 30 minutes already. We are not allowed in, there is no pass. Therefore, if the Investigative Committee tells the Kirov court that I did not appear before them for investigative actions, then this is a lie.”

10:43 Daniil Kolomiychuk/PublicPost

Prosecutors are demanding time to verify whether Navalny has really been summoned to the Investigative Committee today. Blinov gives time: a break is announced until 14:00.

10:42 Daniil Kolomiychuk/PublicPost

Navalny commented on Twitter about his absence from the trial:

“My nomination for mayor is on Friday. This is a valid reason for missing the meeting. Elections for the mayor of Moscow do not happen very often.”

10:39 Daniil Kolomiychuk/PublicPost

“I believe that on June 11, 2013, the court appointed court hearings for June 13 and 14, instead of the previously scheduled June 17 and 18, 2013, is intended to prevent my nomination as a candidate for the post of mayor of Moscow, which was widely covered in the media ".

Full text of Navalny's statement .

10:37 Anna Veduta, press secretary of Alexei Navalny

Moment of truth: lawyer Kobelev reads out a statement explaining why Alexey @ navalny and his defenders, lawyer Mikhailova and Kobzev, did not appear.

1. Violation of the order of investigative actions may lead to a change in the preventive measure. 2. Turnout on June 14 will prevent his nomination for mayor.

10:34 Daniil Kolomiychuk/PublicPost

In the hall are prosecutors, Officers and Davydova. Navalny and his lawyer Olga Mikhailova are not present. Lawyer Kobelev reads out a statement: Navalny and Mikhailova report that today at noon they were summoned to the Investigative Committee. Failure to appear at the Investigative Committee may serve as grounds for changing the preventive measure against Navalny.

10:21 Daniil Kolomiychuk/PublicPost

Good morning everyone.

Today the hearings begin a little later than usual - at 10:30, rather than at 9:00.

We'll start broadcasting in a few minutes.

According to investigators, Alexey Navalny, a member of the opposition Coordination Council, blogger, creator of the RosPil and RosZhKH projects, organized the theft of timber in 2009, when he was an adviser to the governor of the Kirov region. Together with the director of Vyatka Forestry Company LLC, Pyotr Ofitserov , and the general director of KOGUP Kirovles, Vyacheslav Opalev, he stole 10 thousand cubic meters of forest products from May to September 2009, the Investigative Committee says. As a result, the Kirov region missed more than 16 million rubles from the budget.

Navalny was accused of organizing a large embezzlement of someone else's property (Article 33, Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), Ofitserov - of complicity (Article 33, Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Vyacheslav Opalev admitted guilt and decided to make a deal with the investigation, so his criminal case was investigated separately. As a result, the court found the general director of Kirovles guilty, and the whole process is based on his confession.