
The investigation does not have data on the criminal case of fraud in the elections of the Moscow Mayor in 2013, accused of which three supporters of opposition Alexei Navalny are taking place. This was reported with reference to the source in the Investigative Committee (SK) of Russia by the Vedomosti newspaper on June 16.
At the same time, the publication recalled that investigators continue the survey of those who transferred money to support the election headquarters using electronic wallets. Earlier, RBC reported that during such surveys to transferred funds, they offer to write statements that Navalny and his supporters deceived them. In total, on the lists of investigators, as noted, 600 people.
On June 11, in the framework of the initiated case, the Presnensky court of Moscow sent under house arrest the Zyuzino Konstantin Yankauskas, who worked at the headquarters of the Navalny municipal deputy. Another supporter of the opposition, Nikolai Lyaskin, previously took the subscription about the lower room. The third person involved in the case, Vladimir Ashurkov, is planned to put on the wanted list in the UK, as he is outside of Russia. Ashurkov refused to tell Vedomosti whether he plans to return to the country.
According to investigators, Yankauskas, Lyaskin and Ashurkov assigned themselves part of the funds that were going in support of Navalny. We are talking about a two -stage program for financing the election campaign: first, the staff of the headquarters transferred a million rubles to Navalny’s account, and then they invited everyone to compensate for the costs through Yandex.Money electronic wallets. As a result, 10 million rubles were collected. To receive data on those who transferred Navalny, investigators came with a search at Yandex.Money.
After the appearance of information about the criminal case, Navalny himself recalled that the equivalent of all funds raised through electronic wallets was transferred to the election account by various employees of his headquarters (one person by law cannot transfer more than a million rubles to the account).
During the election campaign in the summer of 2013, the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky suspected Navalny in violations when raising funds. Then the financing scheme was checked by the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Mosgorisbirk. None of the departments found violations.
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