Brothers, they will give you

The European Court of Human Rights appointed compensation of 75 thousand euros and 450 thousand rubles to the brothers Alexei and Oleg Navalny for the persecution of the Yves Rocher case. The corresponding decision is published on the court website.

The verdict in the case was recognized as violating Article 6 of the European Convention (the right to a fair court).

The ECHR considered that the Navalny was tried for ordinary entrepreneurial activities. At the same time, the Russian courts did not properly consider the arguments of the defense, the decision said.

The court, however, refused to recognize the persecution of the brothers political. At the same time, three of the seven judges made a special opinion that the ECHR was still obliged to consider the political side of the case.

The Ministry of Justice did not agree with the decision of the ECHR. "One cannot agree with the court’s position on the presence of procedural violations when bringing applicants to criminal liability and applying the norms of Russian criminal and civil law," the department said . Officials do not exclude the possibility of appealing the court order in the Grand Chamber of the ECHR.

On December 30, 2014, the judge of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow Elena Korobchenkofound the brothers Navalny guilty of the Yves Rocher case. Navalny Sr. received 3 and a half years conditionally with a three -year trial period, and his brother - the same real term. In addition, each of the convicts was fined in the amount of 500 thousand rubles. The judge also satisfied the lawsuit against the brothers of the "multidisciplinary processing company" for 4.5 million rubles.

Part 4 of Article 159 were charged to the Navalny brothers (an especially large -scale fraud committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy and using their official position) and paragraph “A” of part 3 of Article 174.1 of the Criminal Code (laundering of funds by a group of persons by prior conspiracy).

According to investigators, the bulk deceived over 26 million rubles belonging to the company Yves Rocher East, and more than 4 million rubles of a "multidisciplinary processing company". In addition, the brothers accused more than 21 million rubles of legalizing.

The theft, according to the prosecution, was that the company of Alexei Navalny Glavli subcontractor involved subcontractors for four and a half years “Yves Rocher” and the IPC transport and expedition services at high prices.

Both the lawyers of the convicts and the prosecutor's office appealed the verdict. The supervisory authority objected to the re -qualification of the prosecution. However, on February 17, 2015 , the Moscow City Court left the verdict as a whole unchanged , only withdrawing a 500,000th fine from Navalny Sr..