Russia opens criminal case against elderly father of former Navalny ally, TASS reports
Russia opens criminal case against elderly father of former Navalny ally, TASS reports
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on April 3, 2025
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.