The Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched criminal proceedings against Aleksey Navalny, his brother Oleg Navalny and other persons over crimes under part 4 of article 159, paragraphs “a” and “b” of part 2 of article 174.1 of the RF Criminal Code (swindling committed be an organized group on an especially large scale and legalization of money obtained by a crime by a group of persons under a preliminary conspiracy and using their official position).
As investigators have established Aleksey Navalny set up a firm OOO Glavnoye Podpisnoye Agentstvo (Main Signing Agency LLC) and appointed one of his acquaintances, who had nothing to do with the further activity of the firm, as a nominal founder and a CEO. In the spring 2008, Oleg Navalny, being head of Department of internal posting of the branch of Mail of Russia – Automated assortment centers, fraudulently convinced representatives of a trade company with foreign capital, running their business activity in the Russian Federation, to conclude an agreement on mail freight transportation with the firm Glavnoye Podpisnoye Agentstvo. In addition the fright services were planned to be provided at inflated price and not by resources of the Navalny’s firm, which did not have any equipment for that, but using another transportation firm headed by an acquaintance of Oleg Navalny’s.
In the period from August 2008 to May 2011, this transportation firm rendered mail shipping services to the foreign trade company delivering it Yaroslavl-Moscow. Moreover, investigators have found that the trade company transferred to a settlement account of Glavnoye Podpisnoye Agentstvo considerably larger sum than the amount of cargo transportation. With the real cost of cargo transportation in fact carried out by the transportation firm no more than 31 million rubles, Glavnoye Podpisnoye Agentstvo received more than 55 million rubles for allegedly rendered shipping services.
This way Oleg and Aleksey Navalnys stole more than 55 million rubles from the trade company by swindling. The most of the sum the brothers spent on their own needs and more than 19 million they on fictitious grounds and agreements transferred from a settlement account of a sham firm to a settlement account of Kobyakovsky willow weaving factory, founders of which included the brothers, allegedly for lease of a non-residential building, raw materials and goods to legalize the fraudulently obtained money.
At present investigating operations are under way to collect additional evidence of involvement of the Navalnys brothers in the crime.
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