They climb into us in a wallet

Power seriously took up opposition finances. On Tuesday, the Duma adopted in the second reading the law on criminal liability for "financing extremism" (up to six years of imprisonment with confiscation of property) and a ban on organizations that collect funds for "extremist activity". Meanwhile, the case of the Yandex-Koshelka Alexei Navalny is spinning. His associates are charged with fraud . After the searches at Yandex.Money, all the donors of last year’s election campaign of Navalny were under the blow. The famous writer and media manager Demyan Kudryavtsev was summoned to a conversation in the department for combating economic crimes. Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs come home to some donors.

This is what, for example, the photographer Dmitry Smirnov told the “faces”: “On Sunday, I was sitting at home, waiting for the girl. When they called the intercom and a male voice, he introduced himself as a police officer from the OEP, I thought that she had played me with a certificate. He said that he needed to ask me as a witness in the criminal case, and suggested that you have been reproducing now, or to conduct a reproduction now, now Or, if I refuse to call the agenda the next day, I had to leave the next day, I agreed.

At first he showed a leaflet with brief information about the criminal case: it was written that Lyaskin, Ashurkov and Yankauskas transferred 3 million rubles to the Navalny campaign, and collected 10. Then there was a sheet with questions on two pages (later it was published on the network. - Ed.).

The interrogation was very correct, even in a fun form. The employee complained that he needs to interview 100-200 people, and in total the investigation group has a list of 600 donors. He filled the protocol manually. They asked me if I want to write a statement, I said not. As a result, the phrase remained in the protocol: "Due to the insignificance of the translated amount (502.5 rubles), I have no complaints."

I was even joking that I was now looking at ORT and I love Putin. I was very surprised - I never thought that it would touch me, and now I thought: a little that it could touch everyone. I didn’t go to rallies before, I just liked reading Navalny LJ, a kind of entertainment. Since I believe that the content should be paid, I supported it in this way. "

“Among my acquaintances there are no people who would be interviewed, at least I don’t know about it,” Konstantin Yankauskas told the Frances before he was put under house arrest in the “Yandex -Kselka case”. “He himself learned about this from social networks. During one of the polls, the investigator complained that he needed to interview another 100-200 people. Given that he was working on this, possibly not one The investigator, and the group, can be represented approximately the scale of this survey.

I think that for a criminal case, investigators need to find victims, determine the amount of damage, so they are doing this. ”

Comment by Pavel Chikov , head of the Human Rights Association "Agora":

"Since this is a criminal process, law enforcement agencies have very broad powers. Police officers on behalf of investigators can require any information, in particular, all the data that the user provided the Yandex.Money system (and if the wallet is authorized, this is passport data).

Can the donors threaten something? It depends on who these donors are, how much they translated, how investigators relate to this person, what are their plans. Nikolai Lyaskin, who is a suspect, is also the sacrifice (Lyaskin "Ovans" transferred 1 million rubles to the Navalny campaign, and then compensated for the amount due to donations. - Ed.). And the degree of threat, and how to behave. - It is individual and depends on the situation.

As for the prospects for crowdfunding in Russia, some people, of course, are frightened and will cease to transfer money to campaigns and organizations that can potentially be persecuted for political reasons. Others will continue to sacrifice, others live outside Russia and may not be afraid. In 2013, when the Navalny campaign was going on, political repressions were already tough enough, but nevertheless, 16 thousand donors did not stop it. ”

Comment of lawyer Olga Gnezdilova :

"The pressure on activists, of course, will intensify. This should be from the entire state policy of the last two years, which can be designated as" a doctor, I want to control everything. "The Internet is apparently not yet worth it, but the intention is visible on the Internet. The new regulation of data storage will make it possible to technically fix the user in the network as evidence of a criminal or administrative case. It can be any-about the slander, insulting the feelings of believers, extremist activity and the like, the main thing, with this regulation it will be easier to find something on a specific person and get evidence of authorship for the court.

Visits for donors to Navalny’s campaign are a vivid example of such personal pressure. Judging by the issues, investigators hope to find among these 16 thousand people who write a fraud statement. One thing will be enough to heavy - up to 10 years in prison - part 4 of Art. 159 received the judicial perspective for a group of persons collecting donations.

If you have come to you, you yourself decide: to let them into your home or ask you to leave a summons with a call for interrogation. The law allows you to refuse to testify against itself, but then it is necessary to explain under the protocol that the investigator’s issues relate directly to your actions. But be careful: for an unmotivated refusal of the witness to testify, criminal liability is provided. Read carefully: it is necessary that in the protocol all questions are recorded in the wording in which they were asked; You have the right to fix all your comments on the inaccuracies before signing the protocol. This is very important - after all, by setting your signature, you will no longer be able to refer to carelessness or to the fact that you were in a hurry.

If they came to me with the question whether I transferred money to Navalny, I would honestly answer that I did not remember. See how the police officers give testimonies in the courts over the participants in peaceful actions: they don’t remember anything a couple of days after the events. ”