Yves Rosher is not against the brothers Navalny

In the Zamoskvoretsky court, a hearing began on the merits of the “case of Yves Rocher” against politician Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg

“Deja Wu” - this expression has repeatedly sounded on Thursday in the courtroom. A little more than a year ago, in Kirov, we had already heard about Navalny, who entered into a criminal conspiracy (then with the former colleague of Yabloko Party Peter Officers, today - with his brother Oleg) and forced to conclude obviously unprofitable agreements (then about forest supplies, today - about the transportation of goods), and about “theft in an especially large scale”.

The essence of the accusation is in a nutshell: the Navalny brothers created “false enterprises without the purpose of implementing real entrepreneurial activity”, they are accused of fraud and embezzlement of more than 26.7 million rubles. The company "Yves Rocher Vostok" (Russian branch of Yves Rosher) and more than 4.4 million rubles. The "multidisciplinary processing company". The New Times wrote in detail about this - “Cosmetics at a price of 10 years” and “organized crime group Navalny” .

And then and today, the defense of Navalny considers the charge to be “arbitrary, unclear, unclear, contradictory, politically motivated, contradicting the norms of the current legislation, and therefore illegal”.

Perhaps only a political background has changed a lot. The process in the case of Kirovles went against the backdrop of still continuing protests, the background of Yves Rocher was the war in Ukraine, the sanctions and the unprecedented popularity of Vladimir Putin within the country. Navalny a little over a year ago - the leader of the opposition, the author of one of the most popular blogs, a promising candidate for mayor of Moscow. Navalny today is a politician who is under house arrest without the right to enter the Internet, not to mention the inability to run somewhere.

The process promises to be a long -130 volumes of criminal case, dozens of witnesses, while the judge appointed the next meeting only a week later. And the process will be much more closed than the process of Kirovles. The small hall on Tatarskaya Street does not accommodate not only to be present, but even all representatives of the press, they decided not to organize a video broadcast on the Internet, and an intra-house broadcast was stopped after a scandal: after 10 minutes after the meeting, one of the court officers brought the judge a note. After reading it, she changed her face and announced a ten-minute break, saying that she had just reported to her: someone is conducting an audio traction on the Internet, and it is urgent to deal with this. The result of the trial was the decision - Judge Korobchenko emphasized that not her, but the chairman of the court - to stop the broadcast on the ground floor in general.

Judge Elena Korobchenko - a young woman with a tail - says, as is customary for many judges, quickly and quietly. Her voice for sitting on the last rows often drowses out the knock of keyboards keyboards. The judge Korobchenko is known very little: the decree on her appointment by the federal judge dates back to the end of 2013, before that she was a justice of the peace of 398 sites. There is every reason to assume her dislike of publicity: on the site "Law here!" The video is posted in which she deleted the defender of the defendant for the shooting.

The Major, a short -haired slender blonde, acts with the charge. From the outside, it sounds like a poorly interesting story of not the largest business in Russia. Registration of an offshore company in Cyprus, concluding this company agreements on the provision of intermediary services, paying salaries to employees and paying taxes to the state. But the expressions “entered into a criminal conspiracy”, “anticipating the inevitability of the onset of consequences and wishing them,” “having a criminal intent” turn a boring business history into an exciting criminal thriller.

Then the judge asks Alexei to express an attitude to the charges.

- You don’t even ask whether I admit (guilt) or do not admit? - He jokes.

- Do you understand the accusation?

- The accusation is not clear to me.

- Do you admit guilt?

- I do not admit.

- Do you want to express your attitude to the prosecution?

“I want to express my attitude,” Navalny's voice becomes thumbsome. - My attitude to the charges is about the same as yours! Or approximately the same as the person who handed you the note. Like the chairman of the court, who prohibited an intra -subject broadcast. What does one say to us all: "We do not want this nonsense to hear a large number of people!" This accusation is nonsense! "Fasted prosecutors on a falsehood read a false trial." ... What are you smiling, Comrade Major?! (This is a state prosecutor). I apologize, your honor (this is already a judge), I have to contact you ... "

Navalny says that he knows the “real reason” of the case: in 2012 there was a “certain public activity in the country”, which would certainly be again, and then on the eve of the next protest event argued about how to go out - consistent with the authorities or not authorized. Navalny was against coordinations, publicly justified this position of his position and then “Feesbashniki ran to Yves Rocher” and within a week declared three criminal cases against him.

By judge Korobchenko, it is difficult to understand what she thinks. Her face is calm, only her eyes sometimes begin to run. This can be accepted for an expression of the sensation of extreme awkwardness, or maybe this is just an attempt to catch everything that is happening in the hall at the same time - from the Senior Lieutenant from the FSIN, who accompanies Alexei Navalny from home (this is the condition of house arrest), to the victims on the front bench on the right.

“When you have paper in the case file ...” Navalny cannot but mention his main trump card, which lies in volume 7 of the case: signed by the administrative and financial director of Iv Roche Christian Milnik, a document that refers to “LLC IV Rocher East of any real damage and missed benefits due to cooperation with Glav subscription LLC” from 2008 to 2012. "

“We have not yet explored the case file,” Judge Korobchenko is quickly located.

- But so that this is not a surprise, I will say: you have paper in the case file ...

The main intrigue of the judicial investigation promises to be the interrogation of the victims, who will have to tell how the Navalny brothers forced them to conclude unprofitable agreements for them, which for some reason they extended for 5 years instead of challenge in court.

“We are not commenting on the case yet,” says lawyer Vadim Kodol representing the interests of Yves Rocher.

- And how do you explain the paper about the recognition of Iv Rocher the absence of damage?

“We are not commenting on anything yet,” the stake repeats and adds: in the case there are other papers.

According to the current sequence of evidence, the victims will be questioned after numerous witnesses of the prosecution, that is, not soon. Judge Korobchenko appointed the next meeting on August 21 at 10-30 in the morning.