When Alexey Navalny recovers from his alleged poisoning, he’ll have another battle ahead. A businessman dubbed “Putin’s chef,” has vowed to take every single penny of a 88 million rubles ($1.2 million) debt owed by the activist.
Evgeny Prigozhin, the owner of a catering company named ‘Concord,’ has acquired the right to collect a large settlement against the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), a group Navalny founded in 2011. In 2019, a Russian court ordered that FBK, Navalny and his lawyer Lyubov Sobol pay 88 million rubles ($1.2 million) to ‘Moskovsky Shkolnik’ (Moscow Schoolboy), a food production company. The lawsuit was filed after a video was published about supposed low-quality food in Moscow’s kindergartens and schools, accusing the company of causing an outbreak of dysentery in December 2018.
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