A court in Tyumen arrested activist Anton Kovrik, whose home was searched in early September in connection with the case of donations to FBK.

The Central District Court of Tyumen arrested activist Anton Kovrik, who is suspected of sending donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation. This became known from the case file on the website of the Tyumen Regional Court, in which the arrest was appealed. Mediazona drew attention to her.

Rug is charged with financing extremism (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). Last week, on September 21, it became known that the activist was included in the “list of extremists and terrorists” of Rosfinmonitoring.

On September 6, the Omsk Civil Association project reported the arrest of Kovrik in Omsk. Later, according to his acquaintance, because of the jurisdiction of the case, the activist was taken to Tyumen. During the search, equipment was confiscated from the man. Previously, the activist participated in rallies in support of oppositionist Alexei Navalny and against the war in Ukraine.

In addition to Kovrik, in early September, searches in cases of FBK donations took place in Nizhny Novgorod , Moscow , Krasnoyarsk , Irkutsk and Syktyvkar . Soon after this, Irkutsk resident Alexey Kamkin, Komi resident Vyacheslav Hertsberg and Nizhny Novgorod resident Gleb Kalinichev were added to the list of Rosfinmonitoring .