Moscow City Court: Navalny’s sentence does not contain a direct ban on traveling abroad

The verdict against oppositionist Alexei Navalny for the theft of more than 26 million rubles from the Yves Rocher company does not contain a direct ban on traveling abroad, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the acting head of the press service of the Moscow City Court, Kirill Ryabchikov.

“In the verdict in Navalny’s case, the following obligations are imposed on him: not to change his actual place of residence, to notify in advance of a change of residence and to appear for registration in a timely manner, at least twice a month,” Ryabchikov said.

Navalny previously reported on his blog that he had been issued a foreign passport. Now he will be able to go to one of the foreign clinics for eye treatment. Now his right eye has 15% vision and Navalny, according to him, “may be facing a corneal transplant.”

According to Navalny’s lawyer Vadim Kobzev, after this called the head of the penal inspection, where the oppositionist is registered, him and reminded him that convicts are prohibited from traveling abroad. She “very urgently asked me to convey that convicts are prohibited by law from traveling abroad” and demanded “that he should not dare even think about going abroad!”

Kobzev told Mediazona that the inspection does not have the authority to restrict Navalny from traveling abroad.

At the end of April, an unknown person threw green paint in Navalny’s face. It later became known that the liquid was probably diluted with another caustic substance. The politician was diagnosed with a chemical burn to his right eye.

In 2014, Navalny was found guilty of fraud in the Yves Rocher case and sentenced to three and a half years probation.