An entrepreneur from Tyumen, Vitaly Samoilik, was placed under house arrest on charges of transferring funds to the Anti-Corruption Foundation after the organization was declared extremist. URA.RU reports this with reference to its sources.
A case was opened against Samoilik for financing an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). It is not reported when exactly the preventive measure was chosen for him. The man was added to the “list of extremists” on March 18.
Samoilik is the general director of Otelier-Pro LLC and the former general director of Otelier LLC, which owns the Spasskaya Hotel in Tyumen, and Otelier-drink LLC. According to data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, in the last two companies the general director was replaced on March 26.
- 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.” An appeals court later upheld this decision. After this, supporters of the opposition politician began to leave Russia en masse.
- Since 2022, Russian authorities have been filing cases against those who continued to donate to Navalny’s structures after their ban. The most massive searches took place among the suspects on September 6, 2023. After them, a resident of Nizhny Novgorod,Gleb Kalinichev , an English teacher from Orel, Ilya Startsev , and an Omsk activist, Anton Kovrik, were sent to a pre-trial detention center. Apparently, a criminal case was also opened against Alexey Kamkin from Irkutsk - he was added to the list of “extremists and terrorists.” In February, Herzberg was sentenced to a fine of 300 thousand rubles.