Initially, the Investigative Committee of Russia reported that 588 million rubles were collected for the needs of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) * and related funds, 356 million of which Navalny spent “together with other persons” “for personal purposes”.

As it became known to RT, now both amounts are being specified.

The size of the funds received and stolen "can be adjusted upward," a law enforcement source said.

According to him, the amount of donations to funds appearing in the case in 2016-2019 may turn out to be larger, taking into account anonymous cryptocurrency transactions. 

So, according to RT calculations, in the period from December 2016 to July 2019, over 350 million rubles were received on the bitcoin wallet associated with the Navalny team. 

At the same time, as part of the investigation of the fraud case at FBK, preliminary data have already been obtained that the employees of the funds could withdraw not 356 million, but almost 587 million rubles, the source said. 

All these funds, according to preliminary information, brought eight people “from Navalny's inner circle”.

At the same time, each accounted for from 3.6 million to 348.85 million rubles. 

"Alexei Navalny, who did not personally take part in financial transactions, the investigation assigns the role of organizer," the source added. 

Thus, everyone involved in the embezzlement case should be preparing for new interrogations and, very likely, for new charges, says Sergei Karnaukhov, associate professor of the Department of Legal Support of the Market Economy of the RANEPA. 

“If they prove their involvement, they will be charged with additional charges.

Those who are abroad can be charged in absentia and start their search through Interpol channels, ”Karnaukhov explained to RT. 

At the same time, according to the expert, if the FBK management is arrested in a fraud case, the organization's activities may be paralyzed. 

"The activities of the fund are already very conditional, and in the future, due to this situation, it will become simply impossible," said the interlocutor of RT.  

As a reminder, in August 2019, the Investigative Committee opened the first criminal case against FBK for laundering 1 billion rubles received to finance the fund.

After that, the investigating authorities conducted searches in the structures of the FBK and at its employees, and blocked accounts. 

  • Police officers during a search in the apartment of the wife of the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK, included by the Ministry of Justice in the list of foreign agents) Yulia Navalnaya

  • RIA News

  • © Ilya Pitalev

In July 2020, Navalny announced the liquidation of the fund. 

Now, six months later, the organization is de jure represented by two funds: the ANO Anti-Corruption Fund, which was founded by Navalny, and the St. Petersburg Fund for the Protection of Citizens' Rights (FZPG), which, according to the offer published on the FBK website, is now accepting donations. 

Thus, the announced liquidation of FBK did not take place and, in fact, turned out to be, as RT wrote, "an ordinary change of the signboard." 

Also on russian.rt.com Navalny's companions after his arrest were transferred donations in cryptocurrency for more than 12 million rubles

After the initiation of the second criminal case on donation fraud in FBK RT in December last year, he noted in his investigation that this could affect many of Navalny's associates.

Some of them, including the head of the regional headquarters network Leonid Volkov, ex-FBK director Roman Rubanov and the fund's executive director Vladimir Ashurkov, are abroad. 

On January 29, the Investigative Committee put Volkov on the wanted list in connection with the accusation brought against him in absentia of involving teenagers in illegal rallies. 

RT sources in law enforcement agencies later said that a financial and economic examination would be assigned in this case.

The specialists will have to find out where the funds came to FBK and related funds and how they were spent. 

The founder of the FBK, who was detained on February 17 upon his return from Germany, is now in custody awaiting trial on the issue of changing the preventive measure on earlier sentences of embezzlement and embezzlement from a suspended sentence to a real one.

The court session is scheduled for February 2.


* The Anti-Corruption Foundation is included in the register of NPOs performing the functions of a foreign agent, by decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation dated 09.10.2019.