The household of late Russian opposition political leader Alexei Navalny is thinking about taking France to the European Court of Human Rights in a case that implicates French cosmetics firm Yves Rocher, a legal representative said on Tuesday.In 2014, Navalny and his sibling Oleg were found guilty of scams and cash laundering by means of their transportation and logistics firm which was dealing with Yves Rocher.The bros later took Yves Rocher to court in France over alleged false accusations however their grievance was dismissed by the courts.
We are considering taking the case to the European Court of Human Rights, said William Bourdon, who represents Navalnys household.
It was our task to go all the method with his better half, in memory of Alexei, he stated, describing the opposition political leaders widow Yulia Navalnaya.In 2013, Russian investigators accused the Navalny siblings of stealing and laundering millions of rubles from Yves Rocher and a Russian firm.The indictment followed a protracted investigation, which Navalny dismissed as persecution over his political activities.Oleg served three-and-a-half years in prison and was released in 2018, while Alexei got a three-and-a-half-year suspended sentence.Yves Rocher, among the very first foreign cosmetics brand names to get in Russia in 1991 after the Soviet Unions demise, ultimately acknowledged publically that it had actually sustained no damage in the cash laundering case.But in 2021, Russian authorities used the old embezzlement charges to jail Navalny.
He died three years later in uncertain circumstances, with his family saying he was eliminated on President Vladimir Putins orders.
Im in prison due to a criminal grievance by a French company, Navalny said in 2022, describing Yves Rocher.In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights knocked the Russian court for its initial ruling that was approximate and manifestly unreasonable, buying that the brothers be paid 83,000 euros ($93,000) in damages and costs.Alexei and Oleg Navalny then filed a false accusation grievance in the western French city of Vannes, not far from Yves Rochers head office, and an inquiry was opened in 2019.
We do think that we will find here a real and reasonable justice which sadly we can not discover in Russia, Alexei Navalny stated at the time.However, French judges ultimately dropped the inquiry, and on Tuesday, the Court of Cassation, the highest court of the French judicial system, promoted the choice after an appeal by Navalnys household.
We are dissatisfied that the Vannes court was too cautious, which benefited Yves Rocher, stated Bourdon.