The lawyer of FBK is not waiting for the change of plans Navalny in presidential elections and after the verdict – statement

a conviction politician Alexei Navalny will not affect its plans to participate in the presidential election in 2018, This opinion TASS expressed Ivan Zhdanov, head of the legal Department based Navalny Fund of struggle against corruption (FBK). He also believes that the conviction will not be an obstacle for the campaign of the opposition. According to Zhdanov, “the conviction could be overturned in higher courts or in the ECHR”.

the Leninsky court of Kirov on 8 February a verdict of Navalny and businessman Peter Ofitserova on the case of “Kirovles”. According to the journalists, the sentence sounds like an indictment. According to Navalny, the judge read out the verdict at the first trial in 2013, word for word.

In the break Bulk tied his prosecution attempts to oust him from politics. “Because of the revelations of our Fund of struggle against corruption is interested in ousting me from my political activities”, – quotes its “Interfax”.

Navalny and Officers in 2013 received suspended sentences of imprisonment for the theft of timber from Federal state unitary enterprise “Kirovles” for 16 mln. of the ECHR in February 2016, has decided that the courts had arbitrarily interpreted the law in this case and found the defendants guilty of actions that are indistinguishable from legitimate business. The ECtHR ruled that Russia must pay Navalny and Ofitserova in compensation a total of more than 80 000 euros. In November 2016 e Russia’s Supreme court overturned the conviction of Navalny and Ofitserova, previously sentenced to five and four years respectively for theft by fraud, and sent the case of “Kirovles” for the review, which began on 5 December. The case have decided to send on new consideration in the Kirov district court for consideration in the new structure.

After the decision of the Supreme court to cancel the verdict in the case of “Kirovles” Navalny regained the right to participate in the presidential elections in 2018 before the new conviction. That is the case of “Kirovles” he had previously been convicted of a serious article, it does not allow him to participate in the elections. There is still a suspended sentence in the case “Yves Rocher”, but it Navalny convicted of a misdemeanor that does not interfere with the nomination for the presidency. The politician has announced the beginning of the presidential election campaign and began fundraising.