The court extended the seizure of bank accounts of Navalny's supporters for six months

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow extended until August 3 the arrest of bank accounts of supporters of Alexei Navalny in the case of money laundering by FBK employees. This was announced by FBK project manager Leonid Volkov.

“He is still a supporter of Navalny’s headquarters,” Volkov cites the reason for extending the arrest of the accounts of the volunteer of the Chelyabinsk headquarters. In addition, as follows from the investigator’s resolution, a “construction and technical examination” was appointed in the FBK case.

According to Volkov, on January 29, on the day of the trial, Navalny’s supporters, including residents of other cities, began receiving notices about the consideration of the investigation’s petition.

As the project manager notes, the accounts of about 700 Navalny supporters have been blocked; each of them has 75.6 million rubles seized from their account. On January 29, the court considered petitions regarding only some of the supporters. The next meeting to extend the seizure of accounts will be held on January 31.

On January 31, the Basmanny Court of Moscow extended the seizure of accounts from another 92 supporters of opposition politician Alexei Navalny as part of the FBK case. This was reported by the telegram channel “Team Navalny”.

The new arrest period is until August 3, due to the extension of the investigation. “The extension of the investigation period is due to objective reasons,” the judge commented on the decision.

Leonid Volkov, FBK project manager, said on Twitter that investigator Gabdulin, who heads the investigation team in the case of “money laundering at FBK,” notified account holders at a non-existent address:

On January 31, the Basmanny Court of Moscow also granted the investigation’s request to seize until August 3 the accounts belonging to another 31 Navalny supporters, “Team Navalny” tweeted .

• On October 15, 2019, the Investigative Committee published news in which it reported that searches were being conducted in 30 regions both at the headquarters of the FBK and at the place of residence of employees of the regional divisions of the FBK. A number of them were summoned to investigators for questioning. That day we chronicled the searches.
• On August 3, a criminal case was opened against the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by 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 September 9, the Ministry of Justice added the Anti-Corruption Foundation to the register of “foreign agents.” In January, FBK drew up the first protocol under the law on foreign agents.