Moscow. Opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, who is currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for “fraud” and “disrespect for a judge,” will have to spend an additional 10 years in a maximum security prison, Judge Andrei ruled this Friday. Suvorov, finding him guilty of “extremism”.
By the principle of consumption, Suvorov, judge of the Moscow Urban Court, in charge of the trial that was carried out, behind closed doors, in the same prison, the IK-6 from the Vladimir region, where the opponent is imprisoned, decided that weighing the seriousness of the crimes contained in the two sentences, Navalny, 47, should be behind bars for a total of 19 years.
As was foreseeable, the third trial against Navalny concluded with a new conviction, not the last, since he will soon have to face another trial, this time for “terrorism”, which entails even harsher penalties.
The judge endorsed this Friday the conclusions of the prosecution in the seven crimes presented against Navalny. Classified in the Penal Code, the most serious is that of having created an “extremist organization”, alluding to the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK, for its acronym in Russian), founded in 2011 and banned two years ago.
The FBK became more annoying than a thorn in the Kremlin’s shoe by exposing the excesses and inexplicable enrichment of notorious members of the ruling elite.
He was also accused of “inciting to commit extremist actions”, of participating in “extremist activities”, of founding a non-governmental organization that affected the interests of citizens, of “financing extremism”, of urging minors to commit “dangerous actions” (referring to attending unauthorized protest demonstrations) and “rehabilitating Nazism”.
