The coordinator of Navalny's headquarters in Barnaul was fined 500 rubles

The Central District Court of Barnaul fined Vadim Ostanin, coordinator of Navalny’s local headquarters, 500 rubles, who was detained in the FBK case. Ostanin himself told OVD-Info about this.

The activist was found guilty of disobeying the legal demands of a police officer (Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Criminal Code). A report was drawn up against him after a search on October 15 at the Barnaul headquarters of Alexei Navalny, from where he was taken to the police department. During the search, the activist’s phone and laptop were confiscated.

After his arrest, Ostanin spent the night in the police department, and the next day he was taken to court, but the hearing was postponed due to inaccuracies in the case materials.

• On August 3, a criminal case was opened against the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by Alexei Navalny for laundering funds. The investigation believes that in 2016–2018, a group of people, including FBK employees, received more than 75.5 million rubles from unknown sources, and then, disguising their criminal origin, deposited this money into FBK accounts.
• On October 15, security forces conducted searches of Navalny supporters throughout the country. Journalists also took investigative measures.
• The most massive searches at Navalny’s headquarters took place on September 12. Then the searches took place at approximately 200 addresses in forty cities. After the searches, many activists were interrogated as witnesses in the case of money laundering (Article 174 of the Criminal Code).