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Navalny called Usmanov on the debate
The leader of the Party of Progress, Alexei Navalny, called the billionaire Alisher Usmanov, one of the defendants in the investigation of the Corruption Fund "He is not Dimon" on the debate of the billionaire. The politician said this on his air on his YouTube channel.
“RBC and rain wrote that they are ready to organize some debate, and I’m not afraid to come to such debates, I was asked many times. I’m not afraid. I am turning to Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov (“ You ”). I say that I am ready to participate in such debates,” said Navalny.
The opposition took this appeal as a threat.
On Thursday, Usmanov published a 12-minute video message to Navalny. In the video, the oligarch calls the politics "ignorance", "Luzer" and "failed businessman." Usmanov rejects the accusations that he earned money in a doubt way and gave bribes. The billionaire advises Navalny to apologize to him and says that the opposition will have to "have to answer." The video is dedicated to the preliminary hearing on the lawsuit of Usmanov to Navalny on the same day.
On April 13, Usmanov filed a lawsuit in the Lublin District Court of Moscow to Navalny and the FBK about the protection of honor and dignity. According to RIA Novosti, at Thursday preliminary hearings, judge Marina Vasina rejected the petition of the FBK to terminate the case. Hearing on the merits is scheduled for May 30.
As established in the investigation "He is not Dimon for you", several funds associated with persons from the encirclement of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev received money and suburban estates from Usmanov. In particular, the Sotsgosproekt Foundation, whose supervisory board is headed by the classmate of Prime Minister Ilya Eliseev, the company Usmanov USM Holdings transferred a plot in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow Region with an area of more than 4 hectares.
The billionaire himself insists that the transfer of this site to the “social project” was part of the real estate exchange transaction. According to Usmanov, for this land he received from the fund a plot of 12 hectares in the village of Uspenskoye in Rublevka. Navalny, however, insists that the billionaire is lying. The land in Uspensky, explains the founder of the FBK, Usmanov bought from two commercial firms and there is no connection between the acquisition of one and the transfer of the other site.