International Memorial has reported an attempt to seize the office on Karetny Ryad in Moscow, which has been in its ownership since 2005. This is stated on the website and social networks of the organization.
Having received claims for liquidation, Memorial decided to keep the building in order to «help people find personally and socially significant information about the fate of the victims of state terror.» To do this, the board entered into an agreement on the donation of premises , created in 1990.
According to the law on NGOs, after liquidation, the organization itself disposes of the remaining property and must direct it to the purposes for which it was created, the International Memorial explained. At the same time, the state can claim property only if the NPO cannot dispose of it according to the charter. -cite__image» alt=»1″ />«Memorial» in the Supreme Court. Decision
Elena Zhemkova, Executive Director of International Memorial, and Boris Belenkin, Executive Director of NIPTs Memorial, on September 12 received subpoenas to the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow in the case of “recognizing transactions as invalid, applying the consequences of their invalidity, converting property and collection of funds in the income of the Russian Federation.
Two days later, the court seized the personal accounts of Zhemkova and Belenkin and ordered the arrest of the accounts and property of the NPC Memorial for the amount of the claim. Today, September 16, a conversation is scheduled.
“There is not a single legal basis for recognizing the transaction as invalid: an attempt to seize the premises of Memorial”; in favor of the state, we assess it as a raider and political,” the organization said and cited several quotes from the lawsuit, which states that “Memorial” “was noted for its involvement in the rehabilitation of Nazi criminals, discrediting the authorities and creating a false image of the USSR as a terrorist state” .