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Navalny’s Method Rosneft minority shareholder Alexei Navalny proved in court that the police were not trying very hard when investigating the details of the state company’s contract with China’s CNPC. Shareholder Navalny has been trying for a year and a half to learn the details of Rosneft’s contract to sell oil to China’s CNPC. Under it, the state company committed to supplying China with 48.4 million tonnes of oil in 2005-2010, and received $6 billion in prepayment. Read the full article Vedomosti writes today about how we gave the police and the prosecutor’s office a pretty good beating the other day in Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court. The case concerns Rosneft’s China contract. I believe it was concluded with a certain amount of shady dealing. Not everyone agrees with me, by the way, but the investigation has already become a matter of principle: is Rosneft a company that operates within the rule of law and obeys the law? Or does Rosneft effectively run the whole country? It was precisely in this case that the police issued me the now-infamous refusal order with the wording, "The head of Rosneft’s security service considered it inexpedient to provide the documents". In court, by the way, some interesting details came to light. It turns out that the requests to Rosneft based on my complaint were sent not by some ordinary operative, but by nothing less than a deputy chief of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate (the city police headquarters). And even he was brushed off by our oil magnates like some kid begging for spare change outside McDonald’s. After that, the Moscow police quietly swallowed it and announced that there was no way to conduct an inquiry. So we gave them a thrashing for it. Notably, the prosecutor’s office fought for Rosneft to the bitter end. When the female prosecutor resorted to her final argument — "Medvedev said honest business must not be terrorized with inspections, and Navalny is demanding inspections" — I nearly burst into tears. What joy at last: business is finally under protection. You can read the court ruling here. I hope the cops will now at least deign to request the contract for review. Special greetings to f**il_defense,** who did an excellent job preparing the case before trial, gathered all the paperwork, and fashioned a sharp stick with a nail in it. All I had to do was show up in court, take that stick, and drive it into the villains.