"Yandex. Money" disabled the wallet used for Navalny's election campaign

Payment system "Yandex. Money” on February 6 disabled an electronic wallet owned by Leonid Volkov, which was used to raise funds for the presidential campaign of Alexei Navalny. about this Volkov himself wrote on his Facebook page.

“Actually, transfers from Yandex. Money for Yandex. There was not much money, but we also used Yandex. A wallet as a receiver of a payment gateway from bank cards, and through this channel about 45% of all receipts came to campaign accounts,” Volkov noted.

Volkov added that it is still possible to support Navalny's presidential campaign by sending bitcoins, PayPal also works, and it is also possible to send a donation directly to a bank account or from card to card.

At the end of January 2017, information appeared that the Central Bank demanded from the Yandex. Money" "under any pretext" to block the electronic wallet of Alexei Navalny's associate Leonid Volkov to raise funds for the presidential campaign.