His big brother Alexei has only been dead for a few days, and now the Kremlin is apparently targeting Oleg Navalny. Russia has made an appeal for the 40-year-old, as reported by Russian state media, but the allegations were not further explained.
The body of well-known Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny (47), who died under mysterious circumstances in a Siberian prison camp, has been kept under lock and key by Russian authorities for six days. Now the state apparatus obviously wants his younger brother Oleg to be taken into custody.
According to state media agency TASS, law enforcement authorities have filed new charges against the 40-year-old – under which article of the Russian Criminal Code this measure was taken was not announced.
Suspension of sentence for violating the Corona requirements
Oleg Navalny was already on the wanted list for another crime: he allegedly violated Corona requirements by calling on people to join a peaceful, anti-government protest. The 40-year-old is a supporter of his brother’s opposition movement and described the allegations as politically motivated.
At the beginning of 2021, he received a one-year suspended sentence in this case. Meanwhile, he was forbidden to leave the house at night, participate in mass events or travel outside Moscow. Six months later, a correctional institution filed a request demanding that Oleg be imprisoned. When a court gave the green light for this in early 2022, Oleg had already fled Russia, Radio Free Europe reports.
Already in the courtroom with his brother
In 2014, he served a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for alleged fraud. Critics at the time suspected that the accusations were fabricated and intended to put pressure on the Kremlin’s critics. In this case, he was in court together with his brother – Alexei, on the other hand, received only a suspended sentence. He explained that his brother’s detention was an attempt to hold him hostage.
Russian officials suspected that Oleg had fled to Cyprus. His current whereabouts are unknown.
Source: Krone
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