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The arrest was lifted from the accounts of the mother of the defendant in the case of an undesirable organization

After an inspection carried out by the Investigative Committee, the arrest of 4 million rubles was lifted from the accounts of the mother of the ex-coordinator of Open Russia in the Krasnodar Territory, Yana Antonova. This was reported by MBKh Media with reference to the coordinator of the “Human Rights Postcard” Alexey Pryanishnikov.

The petition asking to lift the arrest explained that the money in the accounts of Zoya Shipilova, Antonova’s mother, is savings from working at the family apiary in the Krasnodar Territory, which have nothing to do with the Anti-Corruption Fund. Money was withdrawn from the account as part of the case against the foundation founded by Alexei Navalny.

“After the investigation carried out by the Investigative Committee, initiated by our petition filed at the end of May of this year addressed to General Investigative Committee Rustam Gabdulin to lift the seizure imposed in the “FBK case” from the funds of 68-year-old Krasnodar pensioner Zoya Shipilova, the seizure of money in the amount of more than four million rubles has been discontinued,” Pryanishnikov said.

On October 15, 2019, the house of the former head of the Open Russia branch in Krasnodar, Yana Antonova, was searched in connection with the FBK money laundering case, after which the activist’s elderly mother was interrogated.
On the same day, the Investigative Committee published news in which it reported that searches were being carried out 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.
In May 2020, the court refused to lift the arrest from Shipilova’s account.
On August 3, 2019, a criminal case was opened against the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by Navalny for money laundering. 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.