In St. Petersburg, a case was opened against an employee of an aircraft repair company, Anton Ziderer, for financing extremist activities (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code) due to a donation from FBK. Baza was the first to report this. The St. Petersburg resident himself confirmed information about the criminal case to Mediazona.
The 25-year-old programmer did not disclose the details of the case in a conversation with the publication. According to the telegram channel, the reason for criminal prosecution was a donation of two thousand rubles, which the young man made in August 2021 — he sent money to the American FBK account.
Baza claims that the case was opened on October 30, then Siederer was detained and then released on an obligation to appear. The minimum penalty under Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code is a fine of 300 thousand rubles, the maximum is eight years in prison.
The Moscow City Court recognized FBK and Navalny’s headquarters as “extremist organizations” in June 2021; on August 4, this decision came into force strength. Then the fund announced the start of an anonymous collection of donations. However, on the first day of collection, a failure occurred in the Stripe service, and Russian banks received information about the purpose of payments.
The first defendants in cases involving FBK donations appeared a year later. Among them was Novaya Gazeta journalist and Dissernet co-founder Andrei Zayakin, as well as 51-year-old Magadan resident Alexey Konovalov. In December 2022, 56-year-old Sergei Shiryaev received a fine due to a donation.
According to Mediazona’s calculations, by August, for seven months of 2023, a record number of criminal cases on “financing extremism” had been filed in the courts. . Among them, we were able to discover five cases related to FBK donations; two of them had already resulted in convictions. Already in the fall, security forces conducted searches in Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk and Syktyvkar. Some of the accused were soon added to the “list of extremists and terrorists.”
First thing for donating to FBK. As a result, the payment of Andrei Zayakin and five other Russians could be tracked