On Tuesday, the Cassation Court in France dismissed the action of Julia and Oleg Navalý against the Yves Rocher cosmetics company, accused of defamation and participation in the construct of a criminal case. In response to this, the relatives of the deceased Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalý want to turn to the European Court of Human Rights. According to AFP, it was admitted on Tuesday by the lawyer of the family of Naval’s William Bourdon.
Bourdon responded to the decision of the cassation court which On Tuesday he did not admit Oleg Navaľný and Julia Navaľná – Brother and widow for Russian opposition Alexei Navaľný – in the case of Yves Rocher.
In 2021, the action was dismissed at the first stage. In May 2023, the Court of Appeal in Rennes dismissed this appeal. Subsequently, an appeal against the Court Court was filed against the decision to refuse to start proceedings against Yves Rocher. The Casual Court, the Supreme Court of the French judicial system, confirmed this decision on Tuesday in the appeal proceedings, which has finally concluded the case.
“We are disappointed that the court was too careful what Yves Rocher had benefited from,” The lawyer Bourdon responded on Tuesday.
The Yves Rocher case dates back to 2012, when the Russian judiciary began an investigation into the alleged fraud, which the company owned by the brothers Navaľný committed at the expense of the subsidiary of the French group Yves Rocher-Vostok. As a result of the investigation, Yves Rocher subsequently stated that “it has discovered several consistent and important indications that the existence of fraud is likely”.
In 2014, the brothers were recognized in 2014 as guilty of fraud and money laundering. While Oleg Navaľnyj served in prison for three and a half years on the basis of a judgment and he got to freedom in 2018, Alexei was given a conditional sentence of three and a half years. He refused all the allegations and described his prosecution as punishment as his political engagement.
Yves Rocher – one of the first foreign cosmetic brands that joined Russia in 1991 after the end of the Soviet Union – after some time she publicly admitted that she did not suffer “no harm” in the event of money laundering.
In 2021, however, the Russian authorities “pulled out” this old case and used the old accusations of embezzlement to take a naval custody – he was detained in January 2021 at the airport in Moscow, immediately after their return from Berlin, where where, where, where, recovered from poisoning combat novelty.
Alexei Navaľnyj died on February 16, 2024 in the Arctic Camp, where he served a 19-year sentence for “extremism”. The circumstances of his death are still unclear, his family claims he was killed at the command of President Vladimir Putin.
In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights condemned the Russian Court for its original decision, which was “arbitrary and apparently non -rational”, with ordered to pay the brothers to the brothers EUR 83,000 as compensation for the damage and the cost of court proceedings.
