After the search, the father of the former head of the FBC Leonid Volkov, Mikhail Volkov, was detained in Yekaterinburg. This was reported by Urallive with reference to the security forces. This, also with reference to power structures, confirmed TASS.

Mikhail Volkov is charged with financing an extremist organization (part 1 of article 282.3 of the Criminal Code) of the FBK - according to investigators, he transferred money to the FBK account.

9:36 Leonid Volkov said in his telegram channel that it was not yet known whether there was no criminal case against his father, there was also no detention at the time of his publication. “They are seized with equipment and continue to take some investigative actions,” he said.

Leonid Volkov also said that in February his father was fired from the Ural Federal University, where he headed the department of algebra and fundamental informatics, due to the activities of his son. Earlier, the opposition’s parents did not want to talk about dismissal publicly.

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The title is specified after Leonid Volkov’s explanation in the channel