On February 2, the day of the hearing to convert Navalny’s suspended sentence into a real term, the campaign’s Bitcoin wallet received 0.078 BTC (over $2,700).
Two more transactions totaling 0.0076 BTC (a little over $260) remained unconfirmed at the time of writing.
On January 17, Alexei Navalny returned to Russia from Germany, where he had spent almost five months receiving treatment and rehabilitation after being poisoned with a Novichok-class substance. Upon arrival at Sheremetyevo Airport, he was detained and remanded in custody. On January 19, the Khimki City Court sent the politician to pre-trial detention for 30 days.
On February 2, the Simonovsky District Court, sitting in the Moscow City Court, is considering FSIN’s motion to revoke Navalny’s suspended sentence of 3.5 years and replace it with a real term in the the Yves Rocher case.
Update: The court sent opposition figure Alexei Navalny to a general-regime penal colony for 2 years and 8 months. It credited 10 months spent under house arrest in 2014.
Earlier ForkLog reported that in the first three days since Navalny’s return to Russia, transferred 1.16 BTC to his campaign’s Bitcoin wallet. 3.5 BTC arrived during protests on January 23.
Leonid Volkov, head of Navalny’s network of regional campaign offices, explained rising inflows as “correlated with political events”.
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