Zamoskovoretsky Moscow court has sentenced the oppositionist Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg in the case of embezzlement in the company “Yves Rocher”. Alexei Navalny was three and a half year suspended sentence and a fine of 500 thousand. Oleg Navalny was sentenced to three and a half years in a penal colony and a fine of 500 thousand rubles.
The original sentencing was scheduled for January 15th. On the transfer date became known yesterday. At the courthouse, where the verdict filled the brothers Navalny, were strengthened security measures. Radio Liberty correspondents were live video.
After the transfer on December 30 the verdict brothers Alex and Oleg Navalny on Facebook there was a group whose members gather tonight to “discuss the court’s decision.” The so-called “People’s Assembly” at the Manege Square in Moscow are ready to go more than 10 thousand people.
The surname “Bulk” the majority of Russians, learn about the latest developments of the central television news programs, first heard at the end of 2011. In related news, it was then represented by one of the leaders of the protest movement that emerged in the wake of discontent fraud in the Duma elections and inspiration “network hamsters” .
In RuNet about Alexei Navalny talking a few years earlier. His blog “Live Journal” (now locked Roscomnadzor) began to attract hundreds of subscribers in 2008, when Navalny, having bought small stakes in major Russian companies, engaged in “Invest activism.” “Kommersant”, for example, wrote at the time that Alexei Navalny is the holder of shares of “Rosneft”, “Gazprom”, “Lukoil”, “Surgutneftegaz”, “Gazprom Neft”, “Transneft”, TNK-BP and VTB Bank and a minority shareholder requires management of these companies disclose information about the activities of management, which affects the income of shareholders and corporate transparency.
After a while started and lawsuits. The initiators of some acted very Navalny, seek to prosecute corrupt officials and senior managers of state companies. Others become initiators officials demanding protection of honor and dignity, or the state in the face of law enforcement officers who spotted in the activities of the crime Alexei Navalny. Currently Zamoskvoretskiy District Court of Moscow is considering the second criminal case against Navalny. The verdict in the first involving allegations of embezzling funds of the company “Kirovles” (five-year prison sentence), entered into force in October last year.
How sawing in “Gazprom”
Perhaps the first, caused quite a stir, blog entry Alexei Navalny (several hundred references, more than 100 thousand views in a few days), is the story with the headline “How sawing in” Gazprom “, which was published in late December 2008. It Navalny, who, as a shareholder of “Gazprom”, by the time officially recognized and the victim and civil plaintiff, described the scheme of multi-million dollar embezzlement in the purchase of gas. In short: “Mezhregiongaz” (a 100 per cent subsidiary of “Gazprom”) through an intermediary “Transinvestgaz” bought gas from a small company “Novatek” – at a price three times higher than that a few days earlier “Novatek” offered “Gazprom”. According to Navalny, approximately $ 10 million difference, remaining at “Transinvestgaza”, as a result of settled in the pockets of top managers “Mezhregiongaz”.
In March 2009, Alexey Navalny said that the accused in a criminal case initiated on the facts of the theft of money from “Mezhregiongaz”, became the sixth man. Including the deputy general director of “Mezhregiongaz” Igor Dmitriev and former CEO and chief accountant of “Trastinvestgaz.” They were accused of abuse of power with serious consequences and causing damage to property by an organized group on a large scale. In May of this criminal case (№116372) withdrawn from the production of the investigator GUS in the Moscow police and handed over to the Investigation of the Main Directorate of the Russian Interior Ministry in the Central Federal District, which two months later decided to stop the prosecution of Igor Dmitriev. Learning of this, Alexei Navalny urged readers of his blog to require law enforcement officials for clarification. As a result, the Ministry of Internal Affairs received 512 formal complaints, the decision to dism iss the case was reversed, the case was transferred to another investigator, and Bulk start acting on behalf of the shareholders of “Gazprom” (total number of shares – about 530 thousand units). However, despite all efforts, by the end of 2009, this criminal case completely collapsed.
How sawing in VTB
In November 2009, Navalny’s blog there is another, which brought thousands of views and hundreds of census record “How sawing in VTB.” This time it was the acquisition of the company “VTB-Leasing” (VTB daughter of one of the largest Russian banks, 85 per cent state-owned) drilling rigs for subsequent lease. Alexei Navalny found out that expensive equipment managers bought not directly from the manufacturer, to provide, to his knowledge, such a possibility, and at the Cyprus mediator with a 50 per cent premium. According to Navalny, these settings VTB has not leased – 4.5 thousand wagons of equipment taken on the Yamal Peninsula and left in an open field.
The video, filmed on the grounds of fasting for a few days, gathered 70 thousand display. Navalny again supported the readers of his blog and other minority shareholders of VTB. Investigators then refused to open a criminal case at the request of Alexei Navalny, then again, under pressure from prosecutors and bloggers back to check. More than two years Alexei Navalny and associates tried to bring the case of rigs to court, but to no avail. However, in June of 2011 at the annual meeting of shareholders of VTB president Andrei Kostin called the deal of the problem and said the dismissal of several managers to deal with it. Law enforcement agencies of the offense in this story is not found.
But by mid-2010 the investigators who seem dopekli complaints and claims Navalny contrive that one test or the other, decided to test him.
In June 2010, “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” reported that “the law enforcement agencies of the Volga Federal District, with the support of the FSB is checked into the involvement of well-known blogger in gray schemes in the forest complex Vyatka region.” Then for the first time in the national press were beside the name of “Bulk” and the name “Kirovles”.
How sawing in “Transneft”
By the end of 2010 year Runet discuss a new investigation Navalny. This time, he spoke about “How sawing in” Transneft “. The blog has published a document containing information about the embezzlement worth more than 120 billion rubles in the project pipeline system” Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean “(ESPO), which deals with “Transneft”. It turned out that the theft, which told Bulk noticed and Russian Audit Chamber, but to justice anyone not involved, although the then head of the joint venture, and Sergei Stepashin said that the criminal case has been opened. The only known “punished” as a result turned out to be one of the auditors LLC “Transneft Finance”, which was dismissed in connection with the leak of documents.
troublemaker leadership “Transneft” Alexei Navalny began back in 2008. Soon after he found out that for previous 2007 the company spent on charity 7 billion 193 million rubles – nearly a billion more than in the repair and maintenance of all of its oil pipelines in the same year. figure out where it went so generous donations, Bulk inquired from the largest charitable and non-profit organizations Russia, but it turned out that none of them from “Transneft” money is not received, sent a request to the company itself. This story also became the subject of investigative audits, but has also been launched on the brakes, even though the court’s decision “illegal omission” of the investigation. However, the arbitration courts have upheld the right of a shareholder Navalny view the complete reporting on cash flow “Transneft”, but to get the names of the charitable organizations that received from “Transneft” 7 billion rubles, Alexey Navalny failed.
Soon after recording Navalny on the “sawing” in “Transneft” became aware of the resumption of inspections in the case of “Kirovlesa.” Of the Main Directorate of the Interior Ministry in the Volga Federal District, he was sent to the Kirov Department of the UPC, which investigators ought to find out whether Navalny, as an advisor to the governor of the Kirov region, “by deception and abuse of trust” led the former Director KOGUP “Kirovles” conclude disadvantageous for the enterprise agreement the supply of wood. Then the criminal case against Alexei Navalny was denied, and the validity of such refusal in March 2011, the Investigative Committee confirmed the Volga Federal District “due to the lack of action Navalny of evidence.” As signs of the activity Navalny on the network and protest rallies late 2011 – early 2012, the case “Kirovlesa” the investigating authorities will then stop w ith the explanation of the possibility to require rehabilitation, then again to resume. And in the midst of the election campaign for the office of mayor of Moscow, Leninsky district court Kirov recognizes Alexei Navalny guilty of fraud “Kirovlesom”.
“painting”, “RosYama”, “RosZhKH” and BCF
On the eve of the new 2011 Alexei Navalny announced the creation of the “painting”. The idea is to public control over budget spending on state and municipal procurement, purchasing state-owned companies. Here’s how he wrote about the project Navalny in his blog:
“1. All wishing to bring to the site information on public procurement tenders, having a clear raspilochny character.
2. Through the website we find and register of experts willing to help in exposing crooks.
3. The experts write the examination, the lawyers wrote in the complaint Antimonopoly Service and other agencies.
4. If you need to physically go to the commissions, courts, and so on. E., Then I do it with my colleagues “.
According to information posted on the site” painting “, project participants have found fraudulent tenders and prevent theft of over $ 59 billion rubles. And one of the latest achievements of the project was the decision of the Krasnoyarsk of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the large cartels at auction disclosed at the request of lawyers “painting”. It has been established that the conspirators obtained unjustified income of $ 664 million. The case file handed over to the Central Investigation Department at the State Ministry of Interior of Russia in Krasnoyarsk Territory to consider bringing the guilty officials conspirators to criminal liability under Art. 178 of the Criminal Code.
In May 2011, Alexei Navalny announced the launch of yet another community project – “RosYama” in the financing of which at first Bulk (by his own admission) has invested 100 thousand rubles.
The purpose of the project – the motivation of the Russian authorities to improve the state of the roads. Users are encouraged to post pictures of the damaged road sections showing where the picture, then the system automatically generates the text of the complaint in the traffic police. If within 37 days (the period specified by the law of the complaint), the user receives no response, the system automatically generates an application which offers to send to the prosecutor. In early October 2014 collection “RosYamy” consisted of 60,935 defects, 18,256 of which are fixed.
A similar principle motivation negligent officials and used in another project Navalny – “RosZhKH.” It allows you to send to various state bodies (including in Goszhilinspektsiyu) complaints about the work of public utilities. For example, you can complain to the fact that in the entrance of the roof leaks, and the stairwells there is no light. The site contains 26 pieces of complaints about the work of public utilities. To apply enough to write your name and address and briefly describe the problem. After that, the complaint is automatically sent to several supervisory authorities. Shortly after the start of the project the main state housing inspector named Nicholas Vasjutin project Alexei Navalny attempt to “discredit the opposition forces in all levels of government.” He issued a special appeal to their subordinates, which urged them to “show restraint and understanding of the situation” in which the number of calls to the age ncy has increased significantly.
Since the foundation of “painting” and “RosYama” existed at the expense of crowdsourcing but in early 2012, Navalny said that refuses anonymous donations for the activities of their projects and to establish a fund to combat corruption (BCF) for their funding. Subsequently became known the names of a number of sponsors of the fund, including businessmen were eleven and five public figures. Including businessman Alexander Lebedev, a journalist Leonid Parfyonov, writers Grigory Chkhartishvili and Dmitry Bykov. Donations of citizens FBK takes today.
PZhiV and Rosvybory
In February 2011, the radio station “Finam-FM” Alexei Navalny called the “United Russia “” party of crooks and thieves. ” This meme in a matter of days, has become popular so that the search engine Google for “party of crooks and thieves,” the first in the list of found gave a link to the website of “United Russia”.
So unflattering review of the ruling party turned to Alexei Navalny lawsuit. United Russia, Vladimir Svirid considered that meme “party of crooks and thieves” denigrates his honor, dignity and business reputation. He demanded Navalny denials and non-pecuniary damages (1 million rubles). However Lublin Svirida lawsuit dismissed in its entirety.
Meanwhile, Alex Bulk announced in his blog about the beginning of a large-scale campaign “Come to the polls and vote for any party against the United Russia – the party of crooks and thieves.” The campaign took place competitions EdRo-poster and music videos, calling the following statements slogan that made the blog Navalny even more popular in RuNet.
In the wake of protest activity related to citizen dissatisfaction scale fraud in the parliamentary elections of 2011 Alexei Navalny launches another project – “RosVybory.” The aim of the project – to organize supervise the voting on those areas where “committed obvious fraud in the previous elections”.
And in May 2012, there is “Good car truth” (DMP) – a project in which produces a registration to “fight with the state propaganda machine” and provided for the dissemination of materials containing criticism of corrupt officials and the authorities and the “United Russia”. One of the first actions of DMP was distributing leaflets, talks about inflating the prices of utility services in Russia.
“Pan Bastrykin”
The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin – “foreign agent” wrote in July 2012, his blog Alexei Navalny. Here he leads photocopies of official documents, from which it follows that in 2007 and 2008 (that is, even during the civil service), the then Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia having a residence permit in the Czech Republic and was the founder of the company, which owns an apartment in Prague. Navalny said that Bastrykin, being a high-ranking official with access to state secrets, for many years hiding in their declarations of income and property availability of real estate and residence in the country – a member of NATO.
This article was a lot of feedback: theme picked up by both Russian and major Western publications. As a result of numerous journalistic investigations revealed that a large Russian government official Bastrykin owned real estate not only in the Czech Republic, but also in Spain. Navalny and his team from BCF messages sent statements of the facts in the Russian presidential administration (demanding the resignation Bastrykina), the Investigative Committee and the FSB. However, the career of Alexander Bastrykin is not affected. He told the newspaper “Izvestia” said an apartment of 46 square meters acquired in 2000, as was going to be engaged in teaching in European universities. Firm Law Bohemia, the founder of which he was allowed to receive long-term Bastrykin Czech visa, “rather than a residence permit.” In the end, the company and its affiliated apartment were transferred Bastrykin Natalia – head of the UK’s first wife, with whom the y are “for 22 years not living”.
“Pehting”
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