The coordinator of Navalny's headquarters in Vladivostok became a suspect in a criminal case

The coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Vladivostok, Ekaterina Ostapenko, became a suspect under two articles: on rendering communications unusable (Part 1 of Article 267 of the Criminal Code) and on involving minors in illegal activities (Part 1 of Article 150 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by lawyer from OVD-Info Alexey Ananyev.

According to investigators, Ostapenko “organized” the action on January 23 in Vladivostok, posting notes about it on the Internet. According to the investigator, two minors saw these recordings and took part in the protest, going out onto the street in the city center and blocking the way for cars.

Navalny’s supporter completely denies guilt and said that the investigation has not indicated exactly what “criminal actions” she specifically committed. The security forces also emphasized that the girl was hiding from the investigation - Ostapenko denies this, since she knew nothing about the criminal case.

Lawyer Ananyev clarified that the investigator sent a petition to the court to take Ostapenko into custody and plans to conduct interrogation as a suspect on April 25.

Ostapenko in Ussuriysk on April 24 and was taken for questioning to the Vladivostok Ministry of Internal Affairs. Initially, the detainee was not told which case she was involved in.

Ekaterina Ostapenko was detained for 48 hours pending trial, Navalny's headquarters in Vladivostok. The investigation plans to ask the court to send the headquarters coordinator into custody as part of a criminal case under the article on the involvement of minors in the commission of a crime (Part 1 of Article 150 of the Criminal Code).

April 25 9:30 reported Earlier that in the case of blocking roads in Vladivostok there were at least 11 suspects, the names of the suspect Alexey Gasyuk and the accused Elena Kazantseva were known. Information that the case file mentioned the coordinator of Navalny’s local headquarters (at that time she appeared under the name Vedernikov) appeared in mid-April.

reported - In connection with Alexei Navalny, a series of protests took place throughout Russia. The most massive actions took place in and in. The security forces reacted harshly to the protests: on January 23 they detained, and on January 31 -. On the day the sentence in the Yves Rocher case was changed to a real one, near the Moscow City Court building and in the center of Moscow, including journalists. arrests Saturday January 23 Sunday January 31 more than 4,000 people more than 5,500were detained - In total, in the wake of the protests over the trial of Alexei Navalny, at least 90 criminal cases were opened across the country, most of the defendants are accused of using violence against government officials that is not life-threatening and health (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). In Vladivostok, to date, three people are known to be accused under Article 318 of the Criminal Code (one of them, Alexander Olekhnovich, was given a two-year suspended sentence on April 20), one - under Article 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism), one - under Article 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism) . sentenced