Navalny: detectives to quiz him as part of "unclear" case
MOSCOW. Jan 23 (Interfax) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is accused of defrauding the Yves Rocher Vostok company, said on Thursday that he had been summoned for an interrogation as part of another criminal case and that it was "unclear what that case is."
"I arrived at the Investigative Committee to receive some information on the Yves Rocher case. At the door an investigator whom I didn't know solemnly handed me an order to arrive for an interrogation as part of another case. It's unclear what that case is," Navalny tweeted.
The opposition leader said the interrogation was scheduled for the end of this month. "It's the same investigator who was in charge of the Kirovles proceedings. Don't know anything else," he said. "So I expect they'll bring some more charges against me before passing the Yves Rocher case over to court in order to see more of me, as it were."
On January 15, the Moscow City Court upheld the seizure of the property of Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg Navalny for the declared purpose of compensating those on whom they had allegedly inflicted losses.
Investigators claim that Alexei Navalny set up a company called Chief Subscription Agency (GPA), and that in 2008 his brother, then head of the domestic service of Russian Post, persuaded Yves Rocher Vostok to sign a deliveries contract with GPA.
Yves Rocher Vostok allegedly paid Alexei and Oleg Navalny 55 million rubles for services that were not provided.
The Yves Rocher Vostok case was launched in 2012.