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The ECHR communicated the complaint against the repeated conviction in the “Kirovles case”
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) communicated the complaint of politician Alexei Navalny and businessman Pyotr Ofitserov against a repeated conviction in the “Kirovles case”. In February 2017, the court sentenced Navalny and Ofitserov to five and four years of probation again after the Supreme Court sent the case back for a new trial. about this wrote Mediazona with reference to the official website of the decisions of the European Court HUDOC.
On November 22, 2017, it became known that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) accepted the complaint of Navalny and Ofitserov for a repeated conviction. The applicants complain about Russian persecution in order to prevent Alexei Navalny from participating in the presidential elections.
The European Court asked Russia whether the conditions for a fair trial were provided (Article 6 of the Convention) and whether the actions of Navalny and Ofitserov were indeed a criminal offense (Article 7 of the Convention guaranteeing punishment “solely on the basis of the law”).
On July 18, 2013, the Leninsky Court of Kirov sentenced Aleksey Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov to five and four years in prison on charges of embezzlement of property from the Kirovles company (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code with application of part 3 of article 33). On October 16, 2013, the Court of Appeal replaced the sentences for both with suspended sentences - this was preceded by mass protests in a number of Russian cities.
On February 23, 2016, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg recognized that Navalny and Ofitserov were convicted for acts that cannot be distinguished from ordinary business activities.
On November 16, 2016, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation overturned the verdict and sent the "Kirovles case" for retrial.
On February 8, 2017, Navalny and Ofitserov were again found guilty and sentenced to five and four years of probation respectively, as well as a fine of 500,000 rubles each.