
In the apartment of the leader of the Party of Progress Alexei Navalny, a search was held in the case of slander in the former investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Pavel Karpov. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press secretary of the politician Kira Yarmysh.
“They seized all computers, phones, flash drives, hard drives found in the apartment,” said Yarmysh. She noted that the police even took the phone of Navalny's daughter.
“Naturally, we will appeal both the search and the initiation of a criminal case, because it is absolutely illegal, this is the first search in the history of Russian jurisprudence as part of the slander case. But the prospect of this appeal is quite traditional, I don’t think that something will be here,” said Navalny himself.
According to him, in the decision to initiate the case, specific publications or links to them are not indicated, where slander is allegedly seen. “During interrogation, we said that we are not clear the essence of these accusations, therefore there is nothing special to say,” Navalny said.
"All this was done specifically to remove all the computer devices, phones and digging into them. They seized everything that they found, all flash drives, discs. It is quite funny that most of this was not so long ago returned by the investigative committee after the seizure during previous searches. For example, they removed a hard drive to the video camera, which removes in the entrance," this may be related to the words - this may be related to this. writing a blog. "Well, isn't that funny?" - the politician emphasized.
On Wednesday, Navalny was interrogated on this case. After that, the police conducted a personal search of the policy. He was asked to turn his pockets, lift the legs and take off their shoes. “Searching for equipment, objects, documents and other means of committing a crime,” wrote lawyer Vadim Kobzev. “As a result of a personal search of Navalny, only a passport was found in the name of Navalny.”
In addition, on Wednesday in the same case, the editor -in -chief of the Echo of Moscow website Vitaly Ruvinsky was interrogated. “Interrogation in the case of Navalny -Karpov, the site of the site Echo Vitaly Ruvinsky ended. It was interested in Navalny, in addition to the editorial office,” wrote the chief editor of the radio station Alexei of the Supervisor. “I am afraid that they suspected that he himself placed blogs on Echo, apparently hacking the server. About how!”
On May 19, it became known that Karpov initiated the case against Navalny . "According to the previously submitted statement by me, the Maryino Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in relation to Navalny was against Navalny in parts 2 and 5 of Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code (slander). Now Alexei Anatolyevich will have a great opportunity to provide all the available, as he claims, evidence of my involvement in the commission of crimes. William Brauder could not prove this," Karpov said.
Part 2 of Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code (slander in a public speech or media) provides for up to 1 million rubles of a fine or up to 240 hours of compulsory work; Part 5 (slander combined with a serious or particularly serious crime) - up to 5 million rubles of a fine or up to 480 hours of compulsory work.
In mid-April, after the announcement of the Brauder effect was published on the Russia-1 television channel, in which the Hermitage Capital’s Navalny and head of the Hermitage Capital investment fund was declared agents of the UK and the United States, Karpov demanded that Sergei Magnitsky were discovered against Brauder in the death of the auditor of Hermitage Capital. The former investigator stated that he proved in the British and Russian courts his non -involvement in the death of Magnitsky. “Now the turn is behind Browner,” he concluded.
The ex-investigator noted that the reason was five references to Navalny in blogs and social networks of the four-part film "Casta Loons", which confirms Karpov's involvement in the death of Magnitsky.