The head of FBK was summoned for questioning

The head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Roman Rubanov, was summoned for an unscheduled interrogation on January 19. “I was urgently summoned to the Investigative Committee for interrogation in two cases at once. For today,” Rubanov wrote on his Twitter.

On Friday, January 16, FBK was searched, accounting, personal files of employees, electronic equipment, including laptops and phones belonging to employees, were seized . “Thirty people burst in, some in masks and with machine guns, some in civilian clothes. Phones and laptops were banned. Lawyers were not allowed to be called. Only two introduced themselves - an investigator from the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee and the captain of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who said that he was in charge of the operation, ” described what was happening in the office. the creator of the fund, Alexei Navalny,

In the Investigative Committee, the search was explained by the search for an employee of the fund Nikita Kulachenkov, who is wanted in the case of the theft from a fence in Vladimir of the work of street artist Sergei Sotov “Bad Good Man”. The UK also noted that at the same time information about the possible illegal spending of donations received by the fund is being checked. With a statement about a crime under the fourth part of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud), an LDPR deputy, Mikhail Degtyarev, applied to the department earlier. As Roman Rubanov stressed , a check is not a legal basis for a search.

On the morning of January 16, even before the start of the search, Alexei Navalny was brought to the Investigative Committee for interrogation in the case of the theft of the painting.

UPD 21:30. Roman Rubanov said after interrogation in the UK that questions about the painting and the whereabouts of Kulachenkov were an occasion to talk about FBK. “They asked what he does at FBK, what Navalny does in the office, and what I know about embezzlement in the office,” writes the head of the fund.