FBK and its directors drew up six protocols under the article on violation of the law on foreign agents

The Anti-Corruption Foundation and its director, Ivan Zhdanov, each received three administrative protocols for violating the law on foreign agents (Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by MBKH Media with reference to FBK lawyer Alexander Pomazuev.

“Two materials on Zhdanov and two on FBK for the fact that there was no indication that this organization is a foreign agent. Two more protocols, one against FBK and the other against Zhdanov, were drawn up when there was a lag - because the Spaniard transferred money to the account and we didn’t notice,” the publication quotes Pomazuev as saying.

On October 9, 2019, the Ministry of Justice included the Anti-Corruption Fund in the register of “foreign agents” for foreign funding, allegedly due to tranches from Spain and the United States amounting to more than 140 thousand rubles. The money came to the account, which by that time had been blocked in a money laundering case against FBK.

Spaniard Monda Cardenas, who transferred money to FBK twice, confirmed in a conversation with Meduza that he really did this, but could not explain why. He made one of the transfers in September 2019, although already in August the FBK account was blocked.

• A criminal case was alsoopened against FBK director Ivan Zhdanov for failure to comply with a court decision (Part 2 of Article 315 of the Criminal Code) for refusing to remove the investigative film “He’s Not Dimon to You.” The film focuses on property, including a large amount of real estate owned by former Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
• In August 2019, 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 activists had their accounts worth 75 million rubles blocked.