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Alexei Navalny will have to pay 4.5 million rubles (67 000 $) to the Multidisciplinary Processing Company, a victim in the Yves Rocher case.

Because of a civil suit field by Multidisciplinary Processing Company, Navalny will have to pay 4.5 million rubles in compensation, the opposition leader wrote on his blog.

He said that the company was forced to go forward with the suit, because its representatives claimed the Russian Investigative Committee had established the extent of the damages.

Details Of Yves Rocher Case

In late October Aleksey Navalny and his brother Oleg were charged with fraud and laundering of funds in the criminal case on the cosmetics company “Yves Rocher”. The court chose recognizance not to leave as a preventive measure. According to the investigators, Navalny brothers stole more than 26 million roubles (811 thousand US dollars) from the company “Yves Rocher East” and 4 million (130 thousand US dollars) from “Multidisciplinary processing company”. The first of these charges can bring up to 10 years’ imprisonment to the brothers, while the second may lead to only five years in prison. Aleksey Navalny called the accusations absurd. According to investigation data, the younger brother of Aleksey Navalny, Oleg, occupying the post of the deputy director of the branch of “Russian Post” persuaded the company “Yves Rocher East” to conclude a contract for postal services with the company “Top Subscription Agency” created by Aleksey Navalny. According to the investigators, the latter company did not render any transportation services and could not render them, entrusting them to another company managed by a friend of Oleg, and the services rendered by this company cost much less. The investigators claim that they found a similar scheme in the case on “Inter-regional Processing Company”. According to the version of the Investigation Committee of Russia, in 2008 Oleg Navalny persuaded IPC to conclude contracts with his company concerning services of transportation of receipts, forms and other printed products. The investigators think that the services were provided at excessive prices, and, as a result, Navalny brothers did damage to IPC in the amount of 3.8 million roubles.