The court extended the seizure of the accounts of the mother of former Open Russia coordinator Yana Antonova

On January 31, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow extended the arrest of the accounts of the mother of pediatric surgeon and former Open Russia coordinator Yana Antonova for six months, she reports on Facebook.

“More than four million have been seized - funds from the recent sale of an apartment and savings over a lifetime, which she [Antonova’s mother - OVD-Info ] intended to organize care for my brother, a disabled person of the first group,” wrote Yana Antonova.

The bank accounts of Antonova and her elderly mother were blocked in October in a money laundering case brought against Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). According to security officials, 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, Yana Antonova’s home was searched as part of the case against FBK. This was the second wave of dozens of searches, in particular, of supporters and activists of Navalny’s headquarters, although some of those subjected to investigative measures had nothing to do with the FBK and Navalny’s headquarters. The Basmanny District Court authorized dozens of new searches as part of this criminal case.
• Previously, the Ministry of Justice included FBK in the register of “foreign agents.”
• 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.