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Alexej Navalny (archive)
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The judiciary in Russia has opened a case of "large-scale fraud" against the Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
As the Russian authorities announced on Tuesday, the opponent of President Vladimir Putin is accused of having diverted 356 million rubles (around 3.9 million euros) to donations from non-profit organizations for personal purposes.
Navalny wrote: "Putin seems to be hysterical." His fund can only work with the help of donations, he said.
The day before, the Russian prison service had asked him to report personally to the authority's office by 9 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
This would provide for the suspended prison sentence to which Navalny was sentenced in 2014.
Should he return to Russia after the deadline, he faces imprisonment.
Navalny was the victim of a poison attack in Siberia in August, which he barely survived.
He is currently in Germany for convalescence.
Research by SPIEGEL with Bellingcat and other partners had shown that at least eight FSB agents were apparently involved in the poison attack on Alexei Navalny and had followed him for months or years.
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