MOSCOW — Kremlin-linked businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin has sued Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and a close ally for defamation, a Moscow court said Tuesday.
The lawsuit appeared Tuesday on the website of a Moscow court, which later told the Russian news agency TASS that the claim sought five million rubles ($66,000) each from Navalny and his ally Vladimir Milov for defamatory statements.
Prigozhin, 59, is nicknamed “Putin’s chef” because his company Concord has catered for the Kremlin.
Last week, Concord posted a copy of a lawsuit on the social media network Vkontakte that it said it had submitted to the Moscow court.
The lawsuit cited an October 27 video stream by f…
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