11:13 23/12/2020
MOSCOW, December 23 (RAPSI) - Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin has filed a 10 million-ruble defamation claim (over $130,000) against figures in opposition Alexey Navalny and Vladimir Milov, RAPSI has been told in Moscow’s Lyublinsky District Court.
The hearing date has not been scheduled yet.
According to the lawsuit’s version published on the website of Concord Company, Prigozhin demands to declare statements calling him bandit and child prostitution convict disseminated by the defendants defaming and untrue.
Earlier, the businessman lodged another suit against Navalny with the Lyblinsky District Court. The tycoon seeks to recover 5 million rubles in compensation for moral harm inflicted by false discrediting information distributed by the blogger. Moreover, Prigozhin asks the court to recognize disseminated statements calling him “a dangerous special criminal funding a private military company responsible for hundreds of human liмes” as inaccurate.