How to get into the "list of extremists" and survive

The accused of terrorism and extremism literally survive in the context of economic sanctions by the state - they are limited by almost all financial transactions. Journalist Dmitry Oskrest figured out how to get into the list and whether it was possible to get around it.

Vladimir Egorov - the father of two children, an electrician and the former head of the Yabloko party in Toropets, a city of 260 km from Tver - loved to publish anti -corruption investigations about the leaders of his hometown in the VKontakte community. For this, according to the activist, a criminal case was opened on him after the publication of the video “Main rat of the Kremlin”.

In the summer of 2018, the court sentenced Egorov to two years in prison on a conditionally under the article on public calls for extremism (part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). Earlier, they tried to set fire to his house, he fled to Ukraine (from where he was expelled, but the SBU denies his participation), he lived in a car in Belarus for a month.

After the trial, he was obliged not only to be at home after 22 hours, to abandon public events and retire from the administrators of his VKontakte group, but also included in the list of Rosfinmonitoring. Banks that have fallen into it block accounts-people cannot get a job, take a loan and perform any operations on the card. All these punishments overtake a person sometimes only for reposts on the Internet.

Collute the terrorists

Rosfinmonitoring is an abbreviated name for the Federal Financial Monitoring Service. According to the official site, the service is involved in the “laundering of laundering received by the criminal through income, the financing of terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction.”

By March 2019, almost nine thousand people, including foreign citizens, were in the list of extremists and terrorists drawn up by service. Their number increases annually - for example, in 2015 the list totaled 3,500 surnames. In 2011, about a thousand. In fact, Rosfinmonitoring only processes the information of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB and the police, and then automatically includes people in the register. A single base appeared only in zero.

In 2016, the head of the department, Yuri Chikhanchin, expressed “very big concern” to Vladimir Putin due to the fact that the Russians transferred several tens of millions of rubles through social networks. During the meeting, Chikhanchin noted that this was less likely to do this in the Jewish Autonomous Okrug and on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago (the majority of the population).

In 2014, he said that some Russian social activists are funded by the same sources as Ukrainian radicals: “We should think about this question: why, for what purpose? Today we work tightly with law enforcement agencies on this issue. ” There were no further statements.

Chikhanchin has been heading the service since May 2008, but not often commented on the register of extremists and terrorists. His deputy Alexander Klimenenok (oversees the Office for Combating the Financing of Terrorism) has never been publicly expressed publicly, including the register.

SMS manual

The inclusion in the register and blocking of banking services that fell under financial sanctions will learn through SMS from their bank. So, for example, it was with a resident of Penza Alexei Chernov. He is the brother of the defendant in the case of the "network", who is charged with participation in the terrorist community.

“The bank sent me SMS that I was included in the list. I immediately sent this news everywhere, and the next day, representatives of the bank with an apology called me and gave a little compensation. Every month, 60 rubles are written off for service - this amount was returned, ”says Alexei Chernov.

According to him, this did not affect other relatives and therefore it looks like a “dumber of a bank”: he and Andrei, a twin brother, similar data, including the date and initials. Earlier, the FSB drew attention to their similarity, which claimed that Andrei Chernov had a conspiracy nickname “Twin”. Despite the fact that at that moment there was no indictment, Andrei himself has already been included in the register of terrorists - you can get to the register without a court sentence, if there is a decision to recognize a person to the suspect or the decision of the departments (Prosecutor General, the Investigative Committee, the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs). The family managed to withdraw money from Andrei’s card immediately after the detention.

Larisa Romanova tells about a similar story, who in 2003 was convicted of the terrorist attack of the “new revolutionary alternative” near the FSB building (then no one was injured). Later, the European court revealed violations in the case and decided to pay compensation.

“We were with the children on vacation in Belgorod, my mother and stepfather were supposed to remove children's benefits by my power of attorney, since immediately upon returning I had an operation. They came, but they were refused, ”says Romanova. - Then we learned that I was on the list. At this time, I already won the case in the ECHR and received almost a million on a card in another bank. It was Privatbank, which was then owned by the Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoisky, and he spat on the lists for the time being. When the ECHR won, she could not sleep. I felt everything - the state would take it away. ”

Romanova persuaded the convicts together to withdraw money faster. She herself eventually lost only 17 thousand, which remained on the Binbank blocked account. She claims that she submitted three statements to solve this situation, but they remained unanswered.

“The defendants of the list are outcasts, these are a caste of untouchable. Worse than pedophiles, at least they are registered, but you can buy the necessary certificate on the corner, ”says Romanova.

Family values ​​under the blow

PayPal blocked the account with the donations, which was opened by the daughter of the Omsk human rights activist Viktor Corba. Corb said that due to pressure he was forced to escape to Ukraine, despite the fact that his project “Our name is Letov!”, Dedicated to the opportunity to name the local airport in honor of the musician Yegor Letov, reached the final of the National Silver Architect Award. The pursuit of Corba began after he published on his blog the last word of publicist Boris Stomakhin. Stomakhin, in turn, was convicted of seven years on charges of public calls to terrorism (part 1 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

Due to similar charges, Mikhail Agafonov, a member of the International Protection Committee of Stomakhin, fled to Ukraine. “I was pulled for interrogation in the FSB. For some time he lived on illegal immigrant, then it was necessary for the money - he went to another city to rent, and the card was blocked. Apparently, they so wanted to lure me to go to the bank. Then I left, ”says Agafonov. According to him, now there are many people in the country forced to leave due to the use of anti-extremist legislation.

According to the 115 federal law, a person included in the list can withdraw only 10 thousand rubles a month on himself and for each family members. For this, it is necessary to prove that relatives have no other sources of income. If you need to get more, then you need to make a request to the bank, which will apply to Rosfinmonitoring. For each transfer of salaries, you also need to bring a lot of documents from the accounting of the employer, but they will give no more than 10 thousand rubles per family member.

“The list of Rosfinmonitoring is civilian death, since no one will take work. Due to being in the list, they do not take to work. The same situation with study. You feel special, not like everyone else, ”says Dina Garina, a nationalist and driver of the trolleybus. She was condemned in the case of insulting two employees of the Center for Combating Extremism, although they initially charged an extremist article - as a result, they were released from punishment in connection with the expiration of the statute of limitations.

According to Garina, who got to the list, it is necessary to look for work where they give out money in cash, that is, friends or unofficially. She complains that she cannot send transfers by mail - recently she wanted to help Nikita Tikhonov, who was convicted by the leader of the “combat organization of Russian nationalists”.

For three years, Garina could not pick up the blocked 70 thousand rubles: “With grief, I returned 50 thousand in half, but they were given five times 10 pieces, since according to the law it is impossible to give a penny anymore. They don’t give the rest in any way. ”

Vladimir Egorov from Toroptz, according to him, potential employers in his hometown hint that an extremist is not happy. As a result, he only receives unemployment benefits, but each time he needs to bring additional documents.

“They do not allow their own home due to entering the list. I have to go to and ask to help strangers on the Internet, but I am 52 years old, but even the postal transfer could not receive. This is not discrimination, this is a disaster! " - Egorov admits.

Several convicts said that they had lost their jobs or the opportunity to get a job because of the person involved in extremist activities or terrorism in the list. For this reason, the wife of Egorov had to move to another area.

The effectiveness of the registry

The court found Yuri Mukhin guilty of participating in the organization “Army of the will of the people”, recognized as an extremist and prohibited court (Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). Now he is retired and each time forced to contact Sberbank employees to receive it.

Employees are not trying to delay Mukhin too much. As a rule, they take documents and release. Then they call on the phone and report that the permission to issue a pension was received, but you need to approach the strictly agreed time at which officials will open a pension account.

“The rest of the time, my pension account has been blocked for bank employees. The older shift of the bank spends an hour while getting through, passes the application and make sure that everything is correct. Then the operator and cashier have the usual work on manual removal of the pension, which I used to remove from the card, ”Mukhin explains.

Getting the next pension takes several days, so because of this hassle, he tries to remove several pensions at once every three months. Once a policeman came to him so that at the request of the prosecutor’s office to achieve a written answer about how Mukhin spends the money withdrawn.

The journalist Alexander Sokolov, convicted with him, also considers this practice ineffective: “This is just a criminal thought -member of the bureaucrats insolent from the irresponsibility against citizens and inciting real social growth, because the bill is not to be opened, the loan is not taken, the salary of the card cannot be received.” Sokolov had several tens of thousands of rubles in the accounts blocked, including the fact that acquaintances gathered for lawyers.

Ways to bypass

“No fool for crimes will use bank accounts due to the fact that they are easily controlled. If I were a real criminal, I would just laugh at it. This is not a fight against crime, but dumb nonsense! Well, what should I ask someone to start a card in my name and give me a password to it and the opportunity to use it? Yes, and no one canceled cash, ”says Mukhin.

Anton Podchasov ( convicted of “Russophobia post” in Barnaul) advises not to despair, because there are ways to avoid Rosfinmonitoring. “For example, for purchases on the Internet there is a virtual QIWI card with unconfirmed personal data. She has a restriction of 15,000 rubles, for offline purchases you can use the “corn” card. In addition, when buying a foreign currency, a passport is required only when the amount exceeds the same 15 thousand. If not, they don’t do the check on the database, ”says Suphorov. After repaying the criminal record, he restored everything except the accounts in PayPal and VTB.

Convicted for fishing Pokemon in the temple, the video blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky leaves the situation in a similar way: “I was blocked by everyone, including the legal entities to which I related. Now you have to store money in bitcoins, as it is fraught with bank accounts. I pay small expenses in cash. When you need to pay something urgently, my mother helps out. ”

Not only poverty

In order to get out of the registry, according to Romanova and Podchasov, it is necessary to follow the following algorithm: when the criminal record has extinguished, it is excluded to exclude Rosfinmonitoring from the list by applying the scan of the sentence. The requirement must be supplemented with a letter to the Investigative Committee or the Prosecutor's Office.

Romanova calls the person in the list "a person not agreed upon for political activity and intimidation of others." She passed the courts against the bank and Rosfinmonitoring in order to file a complaint with the ECHR in 2015. A few more people went her path.

“Maybe the solutions of the ECHR will change something or the revolution in Russia. I don't know. Now I always live on guard and vigilantly, like in the zone. The list in this regard strengthened me. If there was an opportunity to legalize myself and four of her children in a normal country, she would have left the whole family from here, without thinking for a second and forever, ”Romanova concludes. Activists share their experience on Facebook .

From the materials of the Owl information and analytical center it follows that since 2010, the number of crimes related to hateful violence has decreased six times. However, at the same time, the number of punishments for statements has grown three times. In addition to the fine and imprisonment of the defendant, they say not only for poverty. The sentences to convicts for extremism contain additional punishments, follows from the report “Owls” “the state against the initiation of hatred and political activity of nationalists in Russia in 2018”. For example, it is forbidden to occupy leading positions, engage in public activities, work in media, organize public events, drive transport and use the Internet.