
Today, May 23, investigators came to the Moscow office of the Yandex.Money company.
According to Interfax , investigative actions are carried out as part of a criminal case of fraud in the elections of the Moscow Mayor in 2013.
Previously, the supporters of the opposition Alexei Navalny, a deputy of the municipal assembly of Zyuzino Konstantin Yankauskas and entrepreneurs Nikolai Lyaskin and Vladimir Ashurkov, took this case to this case.
According to investigators, during the pre -election campaign of Navalny Yankauskas, Lyaskin and Ashurkov, funds transferred to the candidate’s election account were abducted. In addition, the Russian Investigative Committee said that some of the money was transferred anonymously from foreign IP addresses, which is prohibited by Russian law.
According to Alexei Navalny, more than 103 million rubles were collected for his election campaign in the summer of 2013. “All Yandex-Kshtelki were connected to Yandex-Audit, everyone saw the amounts and movement of funds,” Navalny writes in today's message on his blog. After the campaign, a detailed report was drawn up, and "no complaints about the report to us were received."
Yandex.Money - the first electronic payment system in Russia - was created in 2002 as a partner project of Yandex and Paycash . According to Vedomosti , today 75% of Yandex.Money belongs to Sberbank, the rest is Yandex.