The FBK’s financial manager has been added to the list of “terrorists and extremists.”

Anna Chekhovich, the financial manager of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), was added today to Rosfinmonitoring’s list of “terrorists and extremists.” Chekhovich herself noted this development online.

“I have just received my official ‘terrorist’ certificate from the Russian authorities. I’m glad that my work hasn’t gone unnoticed,” she wrote.

There has been no official announcement that a criminal case has been opened against Chekhovich. In 2020, the Basmanny District Court in Moscow seized her property as part of a case concerning alleged money laundering at the FBK (point “b,” part 4, article 174 of the Criminal Code). According to a ruling by the appellate court, the decision to seize property applied to people who, according to law enforcement, could be involved in the legalisation of funds.

In 2021, the Moscow City Court recognised the FBK and Navalny’s network of regional offices as extremist organisations. After this decision came into force, FBK staff and former employees of the regional offices began to be prosecuted under extremist articles.