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FBK received a payment from the United States a day after submitting documents for exclusion from the list of foreign agents

A day after FBK submitted documents to the Ministry of Justice for exclusion from the register of foreign agents, the fund received a payment from the United States. FBK considers this a provocation. FBK project manager Leonid Volkov announced this on his Facebook.

Payment from Ace Trans Inc. in the amount of $100 was not accepted, since FBK only has a ruble bank account. As Volkov added, FBK previously returned the payment to the Spaniard Roberto Fabio Monda Cardenas, for whom the organization was recognized as a foreign agent. “It’s clear that they don’t want to exclude <...> I’m willing to bet that these are morons from the Ministry of Justice, realizing that according to the procedure they will now inevitably have to remove the status of “foreign agent” from FBK, they decided to make a fuss,” says the project manager .

As the head of the legal department of FBK, Vyacheslav Gimadi, told MBKH Media, the bank offered the organization to open a dollar account, otherwise the money would be returned to the sender.

According to the publication, Florida-based commercial transportation company Ace Trans Inc. founded in March 2017 and owned by Alexander and Tatyana Rebrikov.

The Ministry of Justice included FBK in the register of “foreign agents”, allegedly because of tranches from Spain and the United States amounting to more than 140 thousand rubles. The money came to an account that was blocked in a case of money laundering at the fund.
On August 3, a criminal case was opened against FBK for laundering funds, after which on September 12, searches of supporters of Alexei Navalny and his headquarters took place in at least forty cities, according to the politician’s associates - at approximately 200 addresses. After the searches, many activists were interrogated as witnesses in the case of money laundering (Article 174 of the Criminal Code). A number of them had their accounts worth 75 million rubles blocked.