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