MOSCOW, December 14 (RAPSI) – The Presnensky District Court of Moscow has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Anti-Corruption Fund led by opposition politician Alexey Navalny against Russia’s Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, the court’s spokesperson Nina Yurkova told RAPSI on Monday.
The court returned the suit to the plaintiff because the case was outside its jurisdiction, Yurkova said.
Earlier, Navalny’s fund released a publication that accused Chaika’s sons, Artyom and Igor, of exploitation of their father’s contacts in their own interests. The authors of the article also accused several highest-ranked executives of the Prosecutor General’s Office of illegal assistance to the brothers’ business.
Chaika said that the disseminated information is misleading and baseless. According to Prosecutor General, the article was written by order of chief executive of Hermitage Capital Management William Browder and intelligence agencies standing up for him.
The Anti-Corruption Fund seeks protection of honor, dignity and business reputation of the publication’s authors.