A Central Bank employee accused of making donations to FBK stopped coming to his trial

The Tushinsky District Court of Moscow suspended the consideration of the FBK donation case against 64-year-old former Central Bank employee Leonid Toker. This is stated in the case file, Mediazona noted .

The court's website says that Toker "has fled and his whereabouts are unknown." The accused was under a ban on certain actions, and for the first time did not come to the hearing on January 13.

Toker did not respond to the Mediazona correspondent’s messages, but read them.

Toker was detained on July 29, 2025, simultaneously with Alexey Buchnev, Vyacheslav Krysko and Dmitry Mitrofanov. All of them worked at the Central Bank at different times. They were accused of financing extremism due to donations from FBK (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). It is unknown why they were detained as a group. The detainees were given a mild preventive measure - a ban on certain actions.

On the same day, another FBK donor was detained and released on his own recognizance. It is unknown what the name of the detainee is and whether he is connected with the Central Bank.

Security forces are massively opening criminal cases against Russians who decided to support the Anti-Corruption Foundation after the organization was banned. On August 4, 2021, FBK launched a new collection of donations through the foreign service Stripe , but security forces have learned to calculate such transfers. Mediazona discovered more than a hundred criminal cases for donations to the fund.