00:51, 29 July 2025

Krasnodar resident's case on FBK* donations sent for review

The Krasnodar Regional Court overturned the sentence of Dmitry Dyba, who was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor for a donation to the Anti-Corruption Foundation*. The case was sent back for a new trial.

"Caucasian Knot" wrote that Krasnodar resident Dmitry Dyba wasaccused of financing an extremist organization for donating a thousand rubles to the Anti-Corruption Foundation*. At the end of May, the court sentenced Dyba to one and a half years of forced labor, although the prosecutor demanded that he be sentenced to three years in prison.

Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for imprisonment from three to eight years.

Both his defense and the prosecution appealed the sentence against Dmitry Dyba: the prosecutor's office demanded that the punishment be toughened by increasing the term of forced labor to three years, while the defense asked to replace the punishment with a fine. Now the regional court has overturned the sentence and sent the case for a new trial, the human rights project OVD-Info** reported with reference to the Krasnodar resident's lawyer.

Dyba's lawyer does not yet know whose complaint and on what grounds the appellate court overturned the sentence. According to the defense, he has not yet received the court decision.

Earlier, the defense indicated that Dmitry Dyba transferred a total of 1,050 rubles to the FBK* in seven money transfers.

"Caucasian Knot" also wrote about other sentences for residents of southern Russia in similar cases of financing the FBK*. Thus, a resident of Krasnodar, Sergey Anosov received a fine of 600 thousand for a donation of 2,100 rubles to the FBK*, and Ilya Bazikalov from Astrakhan was sentenced to a fine of 500 thousand.

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* The Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) is included in the register of foreign agents, recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation. The founder of the foundation, Alexei Navalny, was included in the list of extremists and terrorists of Rosfinmonitoring, and was also sentenced to 19 years in prison for extremism; he died in prison in February 2024. Navalny is recognized as a "prisoner of conscience." The "Caucasian Knot" article "Navalny: the Caucasian Dimension" sets out the oppositionist's views on issues related to the Caucasus.

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/413397