Russia: 34 million rubles taken from the account of an opponent

Russian bailiffs debited 34 million rubles to an opponent (illustrative image).

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Lioubov Sobol, another incarnation of Alexei Navalny's anti-corruption fund, noted this Monday morning that a withdrawal of nearly 390,000 euros had been made from his bank account.

Justice indeed seized an amount that it had been ordered to pay for having defamed an oligarch.

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With our correspondent in Moscow, 

Evgeni Prigojine has followed through on his threats.

This oligarch known to be close to Vladimir Putin had promised last week to ruin

if he remained alive as well as Lioubov Sobol, the two emblematic figures of the Fund for the fight against corruption.

At the heart of the conflict, an investigation by the fund accusing a catering company linked to the oligarch of having sold rotten food to Moscow schools.

Evgeni Prigojine then attacked opponents for defamation in a lawsuit condemning them to compensate the company up to one million euros.

An amount he paid to his company to better reserve the right to sue opponents personally.

It is therefore for this reason that justice debited Lioubov Sobol's account, as evidenced by the screenshots posted by the opponent on social networks.

Without departing from a certain humor, she added: “ 

The paradox of this story is that Lioubov Sobol says she did not have such a sum.

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