Russian security forces used data about people who sent the donations to the Corruption Fund (FBK) through the American payment service Stripe, as evidence of their guilt in court. This was written by Mediazona, which analyzed the publication of the publication of Sota about the criminal case against the volunteer of Nemtsov Most Viktor Levakov.
On February 4, Sota published some materials of the case, which describes the method of tracking the security forces of money transfers. "Mediazona" notes that it was not previously known.
“From these materials it follows that the security forces proved the transfer of money from the FBK not the first (unprotected) payment with the mention of the fund, but by the number of the Merchant account (account of the seller for which the money left). The Russian bank sees it and, accordingly, see the security forces on request. According to the investigation, the account with the identifier V2NI29SJROMGYKY belongs to the FBK itself, ”writes Mediazona.
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According to the publication, the security forces proved the fact of the transfer of FBK donations using a merchant account at least three other criminal cases. For example, his mention is in the case file against activist Konstantin Kotov, while the merchant account in the affairs of Kotov and Levakov coincide. Mediazona also found the record “Merchant ID belonging to the FBK” in another criminal case.
At the same time, as notes the publication, the Stripe payment system does not create separate merchant accounts for each user. This may indicate that any payments that were made through Stripe-not only FBK donates-can have the same merchant account.
“They unequivocally told us that they did not assign any unique IDs to their clients and do not transfer anywhere,” Leonid Volkov told Mediazone and added that the FBK had nothing to do with the Merchant account indicated in the affairs.
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Mediazona notes that the publication is unknown about claims to ordinary Stripe users, however, the way the person has sent the FBK donates, the Russian courts are accepted by the security forces.
According to Mediazons, the FBK switched to the Stripe system in August 2021, two months after the recognition of the fund by an extremist organization. Thus, the publication notes, everyone who donated the FBK from the moment of switching to Stripe until February 2022, when Russia was disconnected from international transfers because of the start of the war in Ukraine, may be under threat.
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