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The judiciary in Russia has opened a case of "large-scale fraud" against the opposition and Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
As the Russian authorities announced on Tuesday, the opponent of President Vladimir Putin is accused of having diverted 356 million rubles (around 3.9 million euros) to his charitable organizations for personal purposes.
Navalny used the money for vacations abroad, among other things, the statement said.
The organizations are therefore primarily associations for the fight against corruption and the protection of human rights.
The well-known Kremlin critic is currently in Germany.
He was the victim of a poison attack in Siberia in August, which he barely survived.
According to laboratories in Germany, France and Sweden, the results of which have been confirmed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Navalny was poisoned with a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group.
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After a treatment in the Berlin Charité, the prominent Kremlin critic recovered from the consequences of the poisoning.
The Kremlin denies any involvement in the attack.
The incident is putting a considerable strain on German-Russian relations.
Navalny recently published a video on YouTube in which he telephoned an alleged agent of the Russian domestic intelligence service FSB, who admits Navalny's poisoning in August.
Navalny pretended to be the assistant of a high-ranking intelligence officer on the phone.