MOSCOW. May 28 (Interfax) - The investigation into the case of Alexei Navalny's lawyers, who are charged with alignment with an extremist network, has concluded, an investigator said in court.
"The collection of evidence in the criminal case is completed," the investigator of the Russian Investigative Committee said at a hearing of Moscow's Basmanny District Court on Tuesday.
The court is processing his motion for extending the arrest of lawyers Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev.
According to the motion, Liptser and Kobzev were indicted in early April and began familiarizing themselves with case materials together with the defense.
The lawyers told the court that they practically completed studying the case materials but have yet to sign a respective protocol.
Liptser and Kobzev pled not guilty of alignment with an extremist network. Another lawyer of Navalny, Igor Sergunin, was arrested in the case.
Warrants for the arrest of two more of Navalny's lawyers, Olga Mikhailova and Alexander Fedulov, were issued in Russia in absentia.
According to the investigator, the lawyers delivered information to and from Navalny, the head of the extremist network, when he was serving time in a penitentiary in the Vladimir region.
Navalny died in a penitentiary in Kharp, in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region, in February 2024. He was convicted of several crimes, including establishing an extremist network, the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which was designated extremist and banned in Russia.