The property manager “Voices” in Samara arrested at the request of TFR – RBC

The property manager of the “Voice-Volga” Ludmila Kuzmina arrested in the investigation of the criminal case of evasion of income tax in the amount of 2.2 million rubles. According to Kuzmin, arrested her apartment of 37 square meters and a car Daewoo Matiz year 2004.

«I found out about it today. Called my lawyer, said that he was told today – allegedly the UK secured the arrest of the property for a long time, but that he forgot to tell “, – explained RBC Kuzmin. She finds herself taken against excessive measures: “I just took a turn. This is done in a phased intimidation will drink blood until you’ll die ».

Kuzmin is involved in two cases at once, administrative – for failure to submit documents for inclusion in the register of foreign agents – and criminal – tax evasion. This investigation was opened last month. Investigators believed that the grant to the “Voice-Volga” from the Foundation for Democracy “Voice” in 2012, is not a donation, and direct income Kuzmina. The money collected by the federal “Voice” through the US Agency for International Development (USAid), and the Russian Foreign Ministry had already announced the severance of relations with the agency, argue the investigators.

Already on February 5 at home Kuzmina were searched. The next day the Russian Ministry of Justice officially included “Voice-Volga” in the register of foreign agents.

Just last week, the head of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Samara region Valery Samodaykin argued that no preventive measures to Kuzmina was not applied, reported “Kommersant».

According to Samodaykina, in the case assigned Kuzmina tax expertise. It should confirm “where there were funds” and whether it was a human rights activist “is obliged to pay taxes or not obliged to.” Kuzmin does not trust the statements of Corollary: “For the audit of taxes enough to request our bank, the only one in which we serve, devoid license in June and July last year,” Bank of priorities. ” The last operation of the account was 21 November 2012. They seized all my documents, e-mails ».

The arrest of the property – an extraordinary measure for a campaign to identify” foreign agents, “said co-chairman of the movement” Voice “(successor to the association” The Voice “, defunct in December 2012) Gregory Melkonyants. Prior to that, in December 2014, to enforce the judgment in the administrative case of refusal included in the register of foreign agents, bailiffs arrested retirement account manager Saratov NGO “Partnership for Development” Olga Pitsunovoy. In January, they have tried to describe her property. “Once there is a trial, and to arrest a single person in the apartment – it is a direct persecution,” – says Melkonyants.

The association of non-profit organizations “in defense of the rights of voters” The Voice “was the first NGO, recognized as” foreign agent “. The Ministry of Justice filed similar claims and many of its regional offices. In November 2014 a bill to toughen requirements for the financing of political parties, as amended by President Vladimir Putin, a ban on transactions between parties and “foreign agents”, including carrying out monitoring of the elections.