20 May 2023, 19:48
Activist Yana Antonova states bank's refusal to unblock her mother's accounts
The bank where Yana Antonova's mother keeps her money would not unblock her accounts, despite the investigator's resolution, Yana, a Krasnodar activist, has stated.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in October 2019, Yana Antonova's home was searched within the case of money laundering at the Anti-Corruption Fund* (known as FBK). Her seriously ill mother, a pensioner, was interrogated; and her bank accounts were arrested. Yana treated the blocking of accounts as a form of pressure. According to her version, the mother's arrested accounts contain money that she planned to spend on her disabled son. On May 17, it became known that the accounts of Antonova's mother were unblocked by investigator's resolution.
In her Telegram channel, Yana Antonova has informed that, despite the investigator's resolution, the bank where her mother keeps the money had not lifted the arrest from the accounts. At the same time, the bank refers to the arrest warrant issued in 2019 by the Basmanny Court of Moscow, "which has long expired."
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in 2020, the court sentenced Yana Antonova to 240 hours of compulsory works, having found her guilty in a criminal case on participation in the work of "The Open Russia", an organization recognized as undesirable in Russia. In December 2022, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) accepted a complaint against Antonova's sentence.
Human rights defenders treat the criminal case against Yana Antonova as political persecution.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on May 20, 2023 at 02:56 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
Source: Caucasian Knot
