DISINFO: French company Yves Rocher was victim of the Navaly brothers
SUMMARY
Russian justice has transformed into a prison sentence the three and a half years suspended prison sentence imposed in 2014 against Alexei Navalny in a case of embezzlement, commonly known as the Yves Rocher case. Together with his brother Oleg he persuaded the Russian subsidiary of the French cosmetics company to use the services of their shell company to deliver products at costs well above market prices.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Alexei Navalny.
On 30 December 2014, Navalny and his brother were found guilty of money laundering and of defrauding the companies MPK and Yves Rocher Vostok. They were convicted under Articles 159.4 §§ 2 and 3 and 174.1 § 2 (a) and (b) of the Russian Criminal Code. They turned to the ECHR under Article 5 §§ 1 and 3 of the Convention about being placed under house arrest for ten months. Navalny submitted that that decision had been arbitrary and unnecessary for the purposes of his criminal proceedings and had had the goal of keeping him out of public life and away from political activity.
The ECHR ruled(opens in a new tab) that indeed there has been violations of Articles 5, 10 and a violation of Article 18 of the Convention taken in conjunction with Article 5 of the Convention (articles stipulating rights to liberty, freedom of expression and limitation on use of restrictions on rights) and awarded him compensation of 20,000 Euros, which Russia paid.
The EU has condemned the detention of Alexei Navalny and called for his immediate release.
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