In the case of the FBK, the mother’s accounts were arrested by the ex-coordinator of “Open Russia” in Krasnodar Yana Antonova

The court arrested all the accounts of the mother of the ex-coordinator of Open Russia in Krasnodar Yana Antonova. About this “MBH Media” was told by the coordinator of “Human Rights Cards” Alexei Pryanishnikov.

“The court arrested the bank’s bank accounts, whether Antonova herself was arrested, is still unknown,” said Pryanishnikov.

Earlier, they came to Antonova with a search of the FBK case. During the investigative actions, a telephone and bank cards were seized. The activist is accused of carrying out the activities of an unwanted organization (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code) due to the picket and publications on Facebook. This article provides for up to six years in prison.

The Open Russia movement was created in November 2016 at a conference in Helsinki. On April 26, 2017, the Prosecutor General’s Office recognized the foreign organizations OR (OTKRYTAYA ROSSIA), Open Russia Civic Movement, Open Russia (public network “Open Russia”) in the UK, as well as Institute of Modern Russia, Inc (“Institute of Modern Russia ") in the USA. Then the Ministry of Justice said that there were no branches of these organizations in Russia. Thus, the “Open Russia” operating in Russia was not related to these organizations and was not undesirable. Despite this, administrative and criminal cases about the activities of an unwanted organization were started on the members of the organization.

In March, Open Russia announced the elimination of the movement of the same name, since the Russian public organization Open Russia (ROO Open Russia), established in Moscow on February 24, 2019, has already been created.

On August 3, a criminal case was instituted on the laundering of 1 billion rubles with a corruption by the Corruption Fund. The lawyer of the Fund Alexei Molokodov then said the MBH Media that the information of the UK is “easily refuted”, and that “literally a couple of millions of rubles a year” passes through the fund. On August 8, the security forces conducted mass searches with FBK employees. Many of them, as well as at the fund itself, were arrested by bank accounts.

Soon it became known that the case of money laundering was initiated due to donations in bitcoins.