Yesterday, some crook PR operatives in the Kremlin apparently thought, "We haven't 'exposed' Navalny in a while," and today the "newspaper" Izvestia came out with a sensational story claiming that my property will be put up for auction to recover the debt in the "Yves Rocher case".
Everyone keeps asking me what's going on, and I myself know nothing about it.
As it turns out, it's the usual story: the bailiff service only recently received the writs of execution (after six months) and has now opened enforcement proceedings. A record of the debt has appeared on the website:
Under the law, if a bailiff issues an order opening enforcement proceedings, they are required to set a deadline for voluntary compliance. That period is five days. The bailiff must also warn me that the claims will be enforced compulsorily if I do not comply voluntarily within those five days.
Those five days are counted from the moment I receive the order opening enforcement proceedings. It must be delivered to me either by mail or in person. The bailiffs must have confirmation that I received the document.
Needless to say, nothing was sent to me and I received nothing.
My lawyer got in touch with the bailiffs, who were themselves very surprised by the sudden commotion and the calls from the media. In the end, we were told that the five-day period for voluntary compliance starts running from today.
So for now, the only thing that can be put up for auction is the professionalism of the "newspaper" Izvestia and of those who came up with all this. Maybe someone will buy it for the price of a 75% stake in Transaero.
As for this whole scheme to squeeze money out of us: those who attended the trial will remember perfectly well that the company MPK (it is seeking to recover these 4.5 million rubles) was terribly embarrassed by its own participation in the proceedings. Its representatives said that the "damage" and its amount had been determined by the Investigative Committee, and that they themselves did not possess the data (!!) on which those calculations were based.
For six months they did nothing to pursue their civil claim, but now, apparently, they were strongly encouraged to act—I think as part of the Kremlin's well-known tactic of driving people into ruin. The idea is: you don't have much money as it is, we'll make fundraising harder, and whatever you do have, we'll take away. The familiar lawsuits demanding enormous compensation for emotional distress, legal costs, fines, and so on—all of it fits the same pattern.
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