12 Dec 2016 10:35

Navalny's defense challenges public prosecutors in Kirovles case

KIROV. Dec 12 (Interfax) - The defense team of opposition activist Alexei Navalny and businessman Pyotr Ofitserov, whose sentence in the Kirovles embezzlement case was repealed by the Russian Supreme Court, challenged the public prosecutors, an Interfax correspondent said.

"The defense asks that the public prosecutors be disqualified as they were engaged in the first proceeding in 2013," Navalny's lawyer Olga Mikhailova said.

Ofitserov and his defense supported Mikhailova's stance.

The pubic prosecutors asked the court to dismiss the appeal. The court recessed in order to make a decision.