MOSCOW – Opposition activist Alexei Navalny said the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has decided to consider his appeal against the new judgment in the Kirovles case.
“On November 13, the European Court accepted the second Kirovles case for consideration,” Navalny wrote on his Telegram account.
On February 8, 2017, Kirov’s Leninsky District Court again found Navalny guilty of organizing the embezzlement of 10,000 cubic meters of timber products worth 16 million rubles owned by Kirovles and found Navalny’s business partner Pyotr Ofitserov guilty of complicity in this crime. They were given suspended sentences of five and four years, respectively, and fined 500,000 rubles each.
The Russian Supreme Court ordered that the case be reviewed after the ECHR found that the rights of the convicts to a fair trial had been violated and ordered Russia to pay them a total of over €80,000.
