The Ministry of Justice has excluded the Krasnodar organization «Civil Initiative Against Eco-Crime» from the register of foreign agents, in which it has been since 2019. This was announced by the head of the organization Dmitry Shevchenko.
«We were excluded purely» technically «- they did not find foreign funding. But with regards to «political activity» in the act of verification they wrote such that it is impossible to read it — this is just some kind of Spanish shame. We continue to influence public opinion, destabilize the situation — and stuff like that, ”Shevchenko wrote on Facebook.
Shevchenko on Facebook
He said that for 2 years and 2 months of being in the status of a «foreign agent», the organization incurred more than 900 thousand rubles of direct losses, including two fines of 300 thousand rubles each, legal costs and the cost of accounting audits. In addition, Shevchenko noted that 100 thousand rubles were written off from his personal accounts, “actually stolen by Roskomnadzor on the charge of“ offense ”that had been sucked out of his fingertips.»
“By the way, out of 32 environmental NGOs included in the register of foreign agents, 22 had to close voluntarily or forcibly (only 8 organizations managed to leave the register). Did it make it easier for someone, safer? ”- added the head of the NGO.
The Ministry of Justice included the «Civil Initiative against Environmental Crime» register of «foreign agents» on October 25, 2019. As OVD-Info * wrote, the Ministry of Justice pointed out that Greenpeace is the source of funding for the Civil Initiative against Eco-Crime.