FBK director Ivan Zhdanov was fined 100 thousand rubles under the law on foreign agents

The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow fined Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, 100,000 rubles under the law on “foreign agents.” This is reported by Mediazona with reference to Zhdanov himself.

An administrative case against Ivan Zhdanov was opened in February due to the lack of information on the FBK Instagram account that the fund “performs the functions of a foreign agent” (part 2 of article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

• with the same reasoning On March 5, the Simonovsky District Court fined the Anti-Corruption Foundation itself . The fine amounted to 500 thousand rubles - this is the maximum amount provided for by the relevant administrative article.
• On October 9, 2019, the Ministry of Justice entered the Anti-Corruption Fund into the register of “foreign agents” for foreign funding, allegedly due to tranches from Spain and the United States in the amount of more than 140 thousand rubles. The money came to the account, which by that time had been blocked in the case of money laundering against the FBK.