Still imprisoned in Russia, Alexei Navalny has no more success with French justice. The Court of Appeal of Rennes confirmed an order of dismissal for the benefit of the Yves Rocher group, against which the Russian opponent had filed a complaint against the cosmetics firm for "slanderous denunciation", we learned Saturday from the lawyer of the Russian opponent. "This decision is totally incomprehensible, an appeal is seriously considered," responded William Bourdon.
In 2019, Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg filed a complaint in France for "slanderous denunciation" believing that Yves Rocher had unjustly accused them of fraud in Russia, where the cosmetics group has been established since 1991. In 2012, the Russian judiciary opened an investigation into alleged embezzlement allegedly committed by the company Glavpodpiska, owned by the Navalny brothers, to the detriment of the Russian subsidiary of the French group, Yves Rocher-Vostok.
Thanks to these investigations, Yves Rocher had said to have "discovered several concordant and important clues" making the existence of a scam likely. The firm based in Morbihan had then filed a complaint against X to have access to the file. The group later admitted that it had not suffered any harm but this did not prevent Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin's sworn enemy, from being sentenced in Russia in December 2014 to three and a half years in prison suspended for embezzlement to the detriment of Yves Rocher's Russian subsidiary. His brother Oleg had received the same sentence, but firmly. It was following the revocation of his reprieve by the Russian authorities in this case that Alexei Navalny was imprisoned in Russia.
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- Alexeï Navalny
- Yves Rocher
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- Fraud