Russia opens criminal case against elderly father of former Navalny ally, TASS reports
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Posted on April 3, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026

Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on April 3, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026

Russia has initiated a criminal case against Mikhail Volkov, father of a former Navalny aide, for allegedly transferring funds to a banned organization.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has opened a criminal case against the 69-year-old father of Leonid Volkov, a former aide to late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, state news agency TASS reported on Thursday.
TASS quoted a security source as saying that Mikhail Volkov, a renowned mathematics professor, was suspected of transferring money to Navalny's Anti-Corruption Fund, which is banned in Russia as a foreign agent and an extremist organisation.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
The article discusses a criminal case against Mikhail Volkov, father of a former Navalny aide, for allegedly funding a banned organization in Russia.
Mikhail Volkov is a 69-year-old mathematics professor and the father of Leonid Volkov, a former aide to Alexei Navalny.
The Anti-Corruption Fund is banned in Russia as it is considered a foreign agent and an extremist organization.
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