Navalny was sentenced to 9 years in a maximum security colony in cases of fraud with FBK donations and contempt of court

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow, at an off-site hearing in the Pokrovsk colony, sentenced politician Alexei Navalny to nine years in a maximum security colony in cases of fraud in collecting donations for work and for trial. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom.

Navalny was also ordered to pay a fine of 1.2 million rubles. The representative of the prosecutor's office, Nadezhda Tikhonova, asked for 10 years in prison, and taking into account the previously passed sentences - 13 years.

According to the prosecution, Navalny and his associates spent “for personal purposes” the money they collected in donations for the work of FBK and. In addition, the prosecution insists, during the consideration of the case of slander against the veteran, Navalny insulted judge Vera Akimova, who was sentencing him.

Navalny was detained in January 2021 when he returned to Moscow from Germany. There he was recovering from . Novichok poisoning According to investigators , a group of FSB officers was involved in this.

On February 2, the policy was replaced by a suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case; he is now in a colony in the Vladimir region. After his arrest, several more criminal cases were opened against Navalny, and on January 25, 2022, Rosfinmonitoring added him to the register of terrorists and extremists. This list includes both those under investigation and those convicted in cases of terrorism and extremism.