A criminal case was opened against an entrepreneur from Tyumen, Vitaly Samoilik, for financing extremism (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code) due to donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation. This is reported by URA.RU.
The publication, citing its sources, writes that Samoilik, even before the ban on FBK activities, began donating money to the organization and continued to do so after the fund was recognized as an extremist organization in 2021. URA.RU writes that Samoilik is the director of Otelier LLC, with which the Tyumen Spasskaya Hotel is associated.
According to information on the website of the Tyumen Regional Court, initially the Central District Court of Tyumen sent Samoilik to a pre-trial detention center. On March 15, the appellate court changed the preventive measure, placing the entrepreneur under house arrest. Three days later, the businessman was added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of extremists and terrorists.
As Mediazona previously found out, by February 2024, security forces had opened at least 15 criminal cases on the financing of extremism due to donations from FBK. In at least 8 of the 15 cases, the defendants are being prosecuted for donations made on August 5, 2021, when the Stripe service through which Navalny’s associates organized a fundraiser experienced a glitch. As a result of the failure, Stripe transmitted information about the recipient to Russian banks.
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