In Chelyabinsk, ex-coordinators of Navalny’s headquarters were invited to the prosecutor’s office, the Investigative Committee and the police

In Chelyabinsk, prosecutors invited the ex-chief of Navalny's headquarters, Alexei Tabalov, to give an explanation in the case of extremism. Znak reports this.

As Tabalov himself says, employees of the prosecutor’s office called him and invited him to give an explanation, saying that materials of a case about extremism had been received against him. According to the ex-chief of staff, this may be related to the case against Alexei Navalny. The publication does not report exactly what case we are talking about and under what article it was initiated.

Alexey Tabalov headed Navalny’s headquarters for several years. He resigned from his position of his own free will. At the moment, the ex-chief of staff is engaged in human rights activities.

On June 23, Chelyabinsk “Vesna” reports that in addition to Tabalov, Alexey Baraboshkin and Maxim Lapin were summoned for questioning to the Investigative Committee, and Alexander Belyaev was summoned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At different times they coordinated the activities of Navalny’s headquarters in Chelyabinsk. They want to see them “in connection with materials on signs of extremism”

June 24 The polls were held in connection with a criminal case of fraud against Alexei Navalny (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), activists of “Ural. MBH Media". “They asked about my period as a coordinator,” Lapin noted in an interview with the publication.

The headline of the news has been changed, the information about the call from the prosecutor's office has been clarified.

• In December 2020, the Investigative Committeeopened a criminal case for fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) against politician Alexei Navalny. According to investigators, Navalny and “other persons” spent 356 million rubles out of 588 collected as donations for personal purposes: purchasing personal property and paying expenses, “including holidays abroad.”
• On June 9, 2021, the Moscow City Court recognized the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), the Foundation for the Protection of Citizens' Rights (FZPG) and the headquarters of Alexei Navalny as extremist organizations. Former project participants are being pressured. Thus, the ex-director of FBK, Ivan Zhdanov, was put on the wanted list in a criminal case, and Lyubov Sobol, who worked as a lawyer at FBK, had to refuse to participate in the State Duma elections.