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The case of Yves Rocher is a criminal case against Russian politician Aleksei Navalny and his brother Oleg, initiated by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation at the request of the general director of the company "Yves Rocher Vostok" (Russian branch of Yves Rocher) in 2012.

The Russian court found that the Navalny brothers forced "Yves Rocher" and "Multidisciplinary processing company" to conclude with them knowingly unprofitable contracts for cargo transportation. The Navalny brothers are accused of fraud and money laundering for the amount of 55 million rubles. The investigation was interested in the activities of the company, which from 2008 to 2011 transported the post office of the French firm Yves Rocher from Yaroslavl to Moscow. Employees of the СК РФ found that in the spring 2008, Aleksei Navalny created the firm "Main Subscription Agency", the founder of which was his acquaintance. His brother Oleg Navalny, working as the head of the department of internal postal items of the Russian Post branch - Automated sorting centers, agreed with a foreign company to carry out cargo transportation of mail with the company "Main subscription agency". It was reported that it was on the application of Bruno Lepru, the general director of OOO "Yves Rocher Vostok" that a "postal" criminal case was initiated against Aleksei Navalny and his brother Oleg.

December 30, 2014 Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow issued a guilty verdict: Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 3.5 years conditionally, and Oleg Navalny - to 3.5 years of the colony of the general regime. On October 17, 2017, the ECHR ruled that the verdict was arbitrary and unjustified, but refused to consider the issue of political motivation.

Prosecution
In December 2012, according to Bruno Lepru, who was the general director of the Russian branch of Yves Rocher - the company "Yves Rocher East", Oleg and Aleksei Navalny, the Investigative Committee was charged with "fraud charges" and money laundering " criminal way. A number of public organizations, in particular, "Open Russia", accused the company "Yves Rocher" and personally Bruno Leprua of complicity in political repression and writing a false denunciation of Aleksei Navalny, in connection with which a number of individuals announced a boycott of the company's products

Court
In November 2013, the Basmanny Court of Moscow sequestrated the property of the Navalny brothers as an interim measure for possible claims for damages to the company "Yves Rocher". The case was considered by Elena Sergeevna Korobchenko, a federal judge of the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow, who previously worked as a justice of the peace in Judicial Section No. 398. The authorized representative of the company "Yves Rocher" Vadim Alekseyevich Kodol in an application to the investigation in February 2013 noted that when working with the Naval brothers' company, prices in transportation contracts were average market or lower (from 4% to 15%). The representative of "Yves Rocher" Christian Miller reported that there was no damage or loss of profit in concluding these contracts. Subsequently, Bruno Lepru refused to act as a victim, retired from the post of general director of OOO "Yves Rocher East" and went abroad. Later Bruno became general director of the Russian firm "Il de Bote", however, although he was a key witness, he was not invited to court. According to RBC, Oleg Navalny's defender, Kirill Polozov, explained that even if the victims confirm their position and reiterate that they have no complaints, the court can, despite the position of the victims, make the defendants guilty.

Sentence
On December 19, 2014, during a debate in the Zamoskvoretsky court, the prosecutor demanded 10 and 8 years of imprisonment for the Naval brothers under Part 4 of Article 159 and Part 2 of Article 174.1 of the Criminal Code of RF.

The announcement of the verdict was expected on January 15, 2015, but was suddenly postponed to December 30, 2014. In parts 2 and 3 of Article 159.4 (the court changed the qualification of the article) and part 2 of Article 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation Aleksei Navalny was sentenced to 3.5 years of probation with a probation period of 5 years, and his brother Oleg - to the same period but in the colony of the general mode. In addition, both brothers were sentenced a fine of 500 thousand rubles and payment of more than 4 million rubles to the company IPC.

The verdict was appealed, on February 17, 2015 the Moscow City Court, leaving the verdicts unchanged, expect abolished fine of Alexei Navalny.

Appeal to the ECHR
On 5 January 2015, a complaint was lodged with the ECHR concerning violations by Russia of Articles 5, 6, 7 and 18 of the Human Rights Convention. On March 8, 2016, the court communicated a complaint under articles 6 (fair trial) and 7 (punishment solely on the basis of law). The court put before the government of the Russian Federation a number of questions, to which it must answer.

On October 17, 2017 ECHR decided that the case of fraud against Alexei and Oleg Navalny on the complaint of the company "Yves Rocher" was considered in Russia with violation of the right to a fair trial. The court concluded that the verdict was arbitrary and unreasonable. According to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, Russia must pay the brothers Navalny 76 thousand euros. The ECHR refused to consider the issue of political motivation. At the same time, three judges of the ECHR - Dmitry Dedov, Helen Keller and Georgios Sergidez - expressed the opinion that it was necessary to consider the possible political background of the case.