The Anti-Corruption Foundation, recognized by a foreign agent, has published a financial report for 2019 year. A careful analysis of the provided document showed a number of inaccuracies, which may indicate the presence of a "black budget" within the structure, by which his employees live, as well as secret earnings Alexey Navalny and his closest subordinates.
According to the FBK financial report for 2019 year, the organization was able to collect 82,3 million rubles. At the same time, almost 116 thousands of online transfers, the average donation was 712 rubles, and the median is 500 rubles. The fund's expenses for the year were 63,5 million rubles. In this way, on 2020 year left on the balance sheet of the structure 18,8 million rubles.
Detailed information looks logical at first glance, but a closer examination of the document indicates possible financial fraud within Navalny's NGO, which may be of interest to law enforcement.
Difference in reports
Comparative analysis of reports for the last three years revealed discrepancies in the budgets at the end and beginning of the next reporting period in the amount of 6,1 million rubles. So, according to FBK documents for 2017 year, the organization was able to collect 80 million rubles, but spent 56,3 million rubles, leaving on the balance sheet 23,7 million rubles, who moved into the next fiscal year.
In 2018, the Navalny Foundation, as stated in docs, worked at a loss: income was 58 million rubles, and spending - 65,3 million rubles. In this way, debt at FBK amounted to 7,3 million rubles. Taking into account the amount remaining from last year in 23,7 million rubles in the fund on a positive balance should have remained 16,4 million rubles.
Nevertheless, FBK stated, what's the beginning 2019 the organization could dispose of 22,5 million rubles. In this way, the difference was 6,1 million rubles.
Former FBK lawyer Vitaly Serukanov in comments Federal News Agency He stated, that such inaccuracies in Navalny's structure can be explained by the existence of "white" and "black" budgets. Funds in the latter come from bitcoin wallets, information about which is not indicated in the official documents of the organization, because of what inaccuracies arise.
"Report for them — it's like an external eye diversion tool. There are two budgets, one "white", another "black", and just "black" is formed from bitcoins, who come from nowhere. certainly, they transfer some part to the "white" budget, that's why such strange things happen there ", — explained Serukanov.
Really, when studying the financial statement for 2019 a year, there was no mention of the receipt of large amounts of funds to the bitcoin wallets of Navalny and his subordinates, while the media have repeatedly noted this fact. Serukanov considers, that the blogger spent the cashed bitcoins on organizing expensive foreign trips.
"They go to the" black cash ", FBK cash out these funds, donors of this money are unknown, and then spend on themselves, on vacations and so on. Then we see these luxury travels, especially with the Navalny family, or his luxurious fashionable "bows". Although he has a "bow", of course, not really", — said the ex-lawyer of the fund.
Dark headquarters funding schemes
Another important thing in the FBK report is the lack of documentation on the flow of funds to Navalny's regional headquarters.. Headquarters are directly subordinate Leonida Volkov, which the, in its turn, is a fund employee, and FBK itself is the head office.
Serukanov stressed, that the reports on the headquarters laid out by Volkov are not of information value and are, in fact, "Dummy" to divert the eyes.
"Volkov calls himself the head of a medium-sized enterprise, He speaks, that many people work for him. And where is the report on their headquarters? the, what does Volkov post, — it's just spillikins, funny pictures. They do not provide a normal financial report ", — Serukanov said.
Single document, which was published during the existence of the regional headquarters of Navalny, belongs to the St. Petersburg branch, but even here the expert community found discrepancies, on the basis of which it became possible to assert, that the headquarters in the northern capital squandered about a million rubles in donations from the collected 1,1 million rubles.
As established by the authors of the Telegram channel "Subject", waste could happen with permission Olga Guseva. So, for April-May 2019 years were spent by the headquarters in Petersburg 472 thousands of rubles allegedly for organizing meetings and lectures for activists. The meetings were held inside the headquarters., therefore, there were no expenses for rent. Besides, responsibility for this line of expenses, as well as utilities, consumables and salaries of employees lies with Leonid Volkov, who announced the allocation of additional funds for the work of the headquarters in St. Petersburg from the budget of the federal headquarters.
According to June-August report, the headquarters again "spent" funds for those needs, which are usually paid from the budget of the headquarters. After analyzing two of the four reports of the headquarters in St. Petersburg, the authors of the "Subject" pointed out the possible theft by the organization of at least 900 thousand.
The absence of official reports from other regional headquarters may also indicate the concealment of the facts of financial fraud by the headquarters of Alexei Navalny. This can only be checked if there are reports., however, regional structures prefer not to make them public.
Left legal entity
Another structure, which is part of the FBK, but nevertheless it is issued to a third-party legal entity, is the YouTube channel "Navalny Live", where the producer is Love Sable. Serukanov stressed, that in this and other cases the fund uses a classic "in a bad sense" entrepreneurial scheme, when the owner formalizes several legal entities to confuse the tax authorities.
obviously, that such a scheme also works in the case of the Navalny Live YouTube channel, since it is registered to the commercial structure of LLC "Media-live". The organization was established in 2018 year Viacheslav Gimadi, who nominally headed Navalny's headquarters in St. Petersburg. Initially the company was called Leviathan-Media, and then changed its name to "Media-Live", as well as the leader - Sobol came instead of Gimadi.
Minor inaccuracies, big questions
In addition to the above, a number of other facts are also in doubt, presented in the financial statements for 2019 year. for example, the graph with sums looks unconvincing, which were spent on office maintenance - in the last quarter 2019 years, expenses have almost doubled. Wherein, according to the report, area, occupied by FBK employees, did not increase, since the rent has not changed. Also, the sharp growth is not entirely clear (half a million rubles) costs of "other services and expenses", office-related.
The sharp increase in one-time donations in August is also interesting. 2019 of the year. The change in the indicator in the positive direction was noted back in July, when, in comparison with June, the share of one-time "donations" in FBK was 45% and brought a maximum of three million rubles. In August, the bar rose to 69%, and the amount of one-time donations amounted to eight million rubles, what can say about large receipts, including, perhaps, and from abroad. Quite possibly, that lump sum payments were received for a series of illegal summer protests, organized by ex-candidates to the Moscow City Duma.
obviously, what to 2020 year blogger managed to create a whole system for money laundering, taking as a sample the scheme worked out by others for the creation of "financial gaskets" in the form of a set of legal entities. Despite the provision of an official report by FBK, many inconsistencies, which journalists and the expert community drew attention to, opaque funding calls into question Navalny's words about the existence of the fund only at the expense of money donated from Russians. Quite possibly, that specialized bodies need to study the FBK report more closely and check NPOs for internal financial fraud.
Author: Michael Tsepelev
