Navalny was transported from the Moscow pre-trial detention center

Alexei Navalny was transferred from pre-trial detention center 99/1 in Moscow. Mediazona reports this with reference to lawyer Vadim Kobzev, who represents the interests of the politician.

It is still unknown where Navalny is being transported.

21:13 PMC member Eva Merkacheva confirmed to TASS that Navalny was taken to a colony. “I don’t know which one,” she said.

Earlier, the Public Monitoring Committee reported that the politician would serve his sentence in a colony in the Central Federal District.

• Navalny was kept in pre-trial detention center No. 99/1 of federal subordination, located on the territory of the Moscow pre-trial detention center “Matrosskaya Tishina”, until the court decision came into force at the request of the Federal Penitentiary Service to replace his suspended sentence with a real one in the framework of the Yves Rocher case. On February 2, the court of first instance granted the request. On February 20, the Moscow City Courtupheld this decision . According to the court decision, Navalny will spend two and a half years in prison.
• In 2014, brothers Alexei and Oleg Navalny were found guilty of fraud (Part 2 and Part 3 of Article 159.4 of the Criminal Code) and money laundering (Part 2 of Article 174.1 of the Criminal Code) in the Yves Rocher case. Oleg was sentenced to three and a half years of real life, Alexey - to three and a half years of probation. According to investigators, the brothers stole more than 26 million rubles from the Yves Rocher Vostok company and more than four million rubles from the Multidisciplinary Processing Company. Back in 2013, Yves Rocher provided the Investigative Committee with a report according to which no damage was caused to the company.