DonationAlerts, a service for streamers, transmits data on payments to Russian security forces

The DonationAlerts service transmits data to Russian security forces for monetizing streams. This “Mediazone” became known from the materials of the case about donations to the founder of “Artpodgotovka”, Vyacheslav Maltsev, announced in court.

Today, March 25, the 2nd Western District Military Court began to consider the criminal case of 39-year-old Lyubertsy resident Andrei Khoroshko. He was charged with four transfers to blogger Vyacheslav Maltsev through DonationAlerts for 2,201 rubles and 59 kopecks. He transferred money on September 22, 2022, January 30, 2023, February 13 and December 4 of the same year.

Artpodgotovka has been declared both an extremist and terrorist organization. Participation in a terrorist organization and financing of terrorism are charged well. Under this article, he faces up to life imprisonment.

At the first meeting, the prosecutor announced that the case file contained a certificate for official use from Rosfinmonitoring for two people, including Khoroshko. It says that they transferred money to Maltsev through DonationAlerts .

In addition, the company RNKO “VK Payment Solutions” handed over to the security forces a DVD with all the transfers to Maltsev’s DonationAlerts account. The table from this disk shows four translations of Khoroshko with his IP address and email. They coincide in time with data on transfers from Sberbank.

Russians have been punished for donations through DonationAlerts before, Mediazona noted. Thus, in February 2026, a resident of Surgut was fined five thousand rubles under the article on participation in an “undesirable” organization (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). The resolution provides detailed data on multiple donations to the All-Ukrainian Spiritual Center "Renaissance" made in 2021-2023.

“When transferring funds, the account of the World Revival Mission website was displayed, indicated on the Vladimir Muntian channel of the YouTube video hosting @VladimirMuntian , registered on the DONATIONALERTS digital platform,” the document says. It is unclear from the resolution exactly where this account was “displayed.”

“Mediazona” sent a donation in rubles to its own DonationAlerts account through T-Bank, but the statement requested in the banking application did not indicate the recipient. From this we can conclude that the data available to the user only shows that the transfer went to the DonationAlerts service, and not to a specific streamer.

RNKO "VK Payment Solutions" is an organization licensed by the Bank of Russia that provides access to VK Pay. This company's connection to DonationAlerts has not previously been publicly reported. Since 2017, the service belonged to Mail.ru Group , in 2022 it was sold to the founder of the Leta Capital fund, Alexander Chachava, and in 2024 it was reported that the service was being sold to Cypriot businessman Pavel Haraneki. Now, according to the DonationAlerts website , the service is owned by Zaya Solutions Limited , located in Hong Kong.