They turned the switch

The Yandex.Money service turned off the wallet, for which money was gathered in support of the nomination to the president of Russia Alexei Navalny. This was reported by his ally Leonid Volkov, on whom the wallet was registered.

As Volkov notes, about 45 percent of all revenues came to this wallet, which was used as a receiver of a payment gateway from bank cards.

In this regard, the headquarters of Navalny added the opportunity to send a donation directly to the bank account or from the card to the card on the campaign’s website.

“This, of course, is not as convenient as through a payment gateway right on the site, but we hope that this will not stop supporters,” Volkov notes. “The campaign’s money is very much, it is its fuel. 77 regional offices and about 250 employees receiving salaries in them; 120 million leaflets that we are going to print - they all do not finance themselves.”

On January 20, Volkov received a letter from the service administration with a request to stop using a wallet to finance Navalny's election campaign. Otherwise, the service threatened to block the account , citing new rules that prohibit individuals to collect money for political goals.

In response to the TJournal request to Yandex.Money, they also noticed that Navalny could raise funds for his campaign not through Volkov’s wallet, but through the wallet of the Corruption Fund. To transfer funds to the FBK account, private individuals have every right.

However, Volkov noticed the publication that the fund is a non -political organization and therefore could not have relations to the pre -election campaign of Navalny.

On January 26, Navalny wrote on his blog that the Central Bank illegally demanded from Yandex.Money to block the fundraising for his presidential campaign.

“Good people from Yandex.Money honestly told us: dudes, the Central Bank calls us (“ Yandex.Money ”as a payment system falls under their regulation) and requires that we, under any excuse, closed Leonid Volkov’s wallet, which we collect money,” the leader of the progress party wrote. - To the objection, "so they do not violate anything" Elvira Nabiullina answer: yes, we don’t care, as you want, and close it. "

The Central Bank said that his employees "" neither calls nor in any other way did those actions "which are described in Navalny's posts. The Bank of Russia demanded that the politician either name the name of the Central Bank who demanded the closure of the wallet, or apologize for the false information.

In June 2014, the service blocked the wallet of the Union of Solidarity with political prisoners , as well as without explanation of the reasons, terminated the contract of service of the wallet, which was conducted by a fundraiser for the Politzer Igor Matveev.

In December 2015, Yandex.Money, 75 percent of which belong to Sberbank, were included in the US sanctions list .