(ANSA) – ROME, FEBRUARY 03 – The Prosecutor’s Office filed a new file against the opponent Alexei Navalny with a Moscow court, accusing him of fraud and contempt of the Court.
Charges which, according to his lawyer Olga Mikhailova, quoted by the news site Doshd, could cost him other sentences for a total of up to 10 years in prison.
Navalny has already been serving a 2-year and 5-month sentence since January 2021 for other fraud charges that he and his supporters judge to be false.
Sources in the Lefortovo court told the Ria Novosti agency that a fraud charge has now been filed against Navalny, assuming that he used funds donated for his projects for personal purposes. The indictment of contempt of court refers instead to Navalny’s repeated protests against Judge Vera Akimova, whom he accuses of being biased, during a trial last year for insulting a WWII veteran. Eventually Navalny was sentenced to a fine.
A date for the start of the new trial has not yet been set. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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