The defense team of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny asked the Moscow City Court to cancel the decision to replace their client's suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher fraud case with a real jail term, claiming that the court "violated generally recognized principles and norms of Russian and international law," a Sputnik correspondent reported from the courtroom on Saturday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th February, 2021) The defense team of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny asked the Moscow City Court to cancel the decision to replace their client's suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher fraud case with a real jail term, claiming that the court "violated generally recognized principles and norms of Russian and international law," a Sputnik correspondent reported from the courtroom on Saturday.
Meanwhile, prosecutor Ekaterina Frolova asked the court to recognize as legal the decision to replace the suspended sentence with 3.5 years of imprisonment over violations of probation.
