The time that Navalny had spent under house arrest will be counted as jail time
MOSCOW, February 3. /TASS/. Russian blogger Alexei Navalny will spend about two years and eight months in jail if the court ruling to convert his suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher fraud case into a real prison term comes into force, his defense attorney Olga Mikhaylova told reporters on Tuesday. Approximately, he is to spend two years and eight months in prison, minus the two weeks that he had spent in custody after the Khimkinsky Court’s ruling, she said.
In turn, court officials explained that the time that Navalny had spent under house arrest (between February 28, 2014, and December 30, 2014) will be counted as jail time. Each day he spent under house arrest will be equal to one day in jail.
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Friday, January 15, 2021 12:00:15 PM
The Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) in Moscow confirmed the intention to detain Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after his return from Germany, where he was recovering from severe poisoning.
Navalny has been in Germany since August 2020, where he was undergoing treatment and recovery after he was poisoned on a plane flying from Tomsk to Moscow.
An examination carried out in Berlin showed that Navalny was poisoned with a substance belonging to Novichok nerve agents.
After conducting their own investigation, journalists and independent investigators stated Russian special services were involved in Navalny’s poisoning.