A court in Krasnodar upheld the seizure of the property of ex-director of Postcard Andrei Pivovarov

A court in Krasnodar recognized the seizure of the property of the former director of Open Russia Andrei Pivovarov as legal. This was reported in the telegram channel "Team Pivovarov".

Earlier, the investigator in the case of Pivovarov arrested his apartment and car, justifying this with a potential fine of 500,000 rubles as punishment. At the trial, the activist noted that the seized property was several times higher than the fine that he could be given.

“The fine, for the sake of paying off which the investigator Ilyenko arrested my car and apartment, in the maximum amount is 500,000 rubles. You have the Internet, go to "Avito", BMW X3 2011 costs about a million rubles. A two-room apartment not in the center of St. Petersburg is obviously more than 5 million rubles. That is, it is more than 10 times,” the Pivovarov Team quoted the activist as saying in court.

In addition, Pivovarov noted that he had been in the pre-trial detention center for more than six months, and if he was found guilty, the period he spent in custody would pay off a potential fine.

“When we pointed this out to the investigation, he didn’t give a damn. I arrest everything I want: me, property. And if you don’t like something, so here’s the court, but he directly made it clear that he “won’t have any problems with the court,” Pivovarov concluded.

The politician is accused of carrying out the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). He is charged with 30 posts and one repost of an "undesirable organization" on Facebook. On October 11, Pivovarov was finally charged.

The initiation of a criminal case against the politician became known on May 31. He was detained in St. Petersburg when he went on vacation abroad, went through passport control at the airport, and then boarded an international flight.

• On May 27, the Open Russia Council announced the liquidation of the organization in order to protect its supporters from criminal prosecution. The decision is related to amendments to the law on “undesirable organizations” (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code).
• On April 26, 2017, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office declared a number of organizations associated with Mikhail Khodorkovsky undesirable. The list includes UK-registered OR Otkrytaya Rossia, Open Russia Civic Movement, Open Russia and Institute of Modern Russia, Inc, registered in the USA. The Russian authorities believe that the Open Russia movement is related to these legal entities, and therefore is also an undesirable organization on the territory of the Russian Federation.