The Oktyabrsky District Court of Irkutsk sentenced Alexey Kamkin to three years of probation in the case of the Anti-Corruption Fund. This was reported by the SOVA information and analytical center, citing its own sources.
Kamkin was sentenced on February 14 under the article on financing extremism. Court representatives hid the name of the Irkutsk resident in the case file and did not report the results of the trial. They did not respond to Mediazona’s request for a decision in court.
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57-year-old Alexey Kamkin, a former employee of the Institute of Energy Systems of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (.pdf), was searched in early September 2023 . After this, the scientist was placed under house arrest and included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring, which implies blocking of accounts.
Then in the fall, security forces came to at least six people across the country. In total, after FBK was recognized as an extremist organization in 2021, according to Mediazona’s calculations, cases of FBK donations were opened against at least 15 people.