Nationalist Belov (Potkin) transported from Sailor's Silence

One of the leaders of the Ethnopolitical Association “Russians” banned in Russia, Alexander Potkin (known as Belov), convicted in the case of extremism and legalization of funds stolen from Kazakh investors, was transported from the “Matrosskaya Tishina” pre-trial detention center. “Rosuznik” wrote about this on Twitter.

BTA-banka write

Information about the transfer was confirmed by Potkin’s lawyer Sergei Badamshin. Now the convict is in Nizhny Novgorod in. Whether he will remain there or be transported further is still unknown. Previously, the Moscow City Court sentenced Potkin from 7.5 to 3.5 years.

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Potkin was detained on October 15, 2014 in connection with a criminal case initiated in 2009 against the Kazakh banker and politician Mukhtar Ablyazov and a group of persons associated with him for the alleged theft of loan funds from (the Republic of Kazakhstan).

BTA Bank JSC In addition, Potkin is accused of inciting hatred (Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) for preparing an action within the framework of the “Angry Kazakh” project. Trainings for this project were held in Kyrgyzstan to prepare for the “color revolution”. According to the prosecutor, Potkin received orders from Ablyazov. The latter Potkin was charged with calls for extremist activity (Article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The reason for the accusation was a video from the documentary project “Srok”, which aimed to show the activities of the leaders of the non-systemic opposition.