The police came to the headquarters of Alexei Navalny in Belgorod. This is reported in the telegram channel of the headquarters.
The head of the headquarters, Maxim Klimov, published a recording of a conversation with a man in civilian clothes, who introduced himself as an employee of one of the Belgorod police departments. The security official said that the police received an anonymous message: allegedly Klimov was handing out some leaflets. The head of headquarters stated that at the time indicated in the statement he was under interrogation in the investigative committee and could not distribute leaflets. The law enforcement officer replied that he still plans to interview Klimov.
21:10 The police decided not to conduct a search at the headquarters, but they still hold Klimov in the support department, they report on the telegram channel of the headquarters.
April 17 on the telegram channel "Who, if not Klimov" appeared A description of the events with the coordinator of Navalny's headquarters . After being searched by the police, he went with a lawyer to the headquarters premises.
There, the security forces had already carried out a search, "disguised as an inspection," Klimov noted. At the same time, the lawyer was not allowed to be present, he was dragged out of the room. The police officers seized a number of papers (Internet bills, old scripts, etc.) and a new loudspeaker under the pretext that it "may commit a crime" (as they explained).
The reason for the interviews of the staff of the headquarters and the inspection of the headquarters was an anonymous message to the police:
“Klimov Maxim Evgenievich, the coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Belgorod, plans to hold unauthorized rallies and riots. To do this, he brought to his headquarters on the street. Free, 5 for the issuance of leaflets with calls to go out into the streets and commit riots.
At about 11 p.m. Klimov was able to go home.