New Criminal Case Launched against Navalny

Russian whistleblower and opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg were accused on Friday of defrauding an unspecified firm of 55 million rubles ($1.8 million) in phony shipping charges. The case against Navalny, an anti-corruption campaigner who has accused state officials of embezzling billions of rubles, comes a day ahead of a banned opposition rally that Navalny endorsed. The Navalnys face up to 10 years if charged and convicted of large-scale fraud and money laundering, the Investigative Committee said on its website. “This is HELL. Complete nonsense. Complete!” Alexei Navalny wrote on Twitter on Friday. “I see that I alone am not enough, so they’re cracking down on my family?” Navalny added.

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