The lawyer warned about responsibility for transfers to extremists

In recent years, in Russia, Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Financing extremist activities") has been increasingly applied in cases of donations, online subscriptions and money transfers by extremists and foreign agents. In a conversation with Izvestia, lawyer Alexander Karelov explained the mechanism of its action.

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Will the measure help reduce the number of such materials and protect citizens?

"The provision of property, such as cars, premises, equipment, or meeting areas, can also be considered financing extremist activities," he warned.

At the same time, the number of fraudulent schemes related to the financing of extremism is growing, the expert noted. According to him, telephone fraudsters and employees of Ukrainian information and psychological units often intimidate citizens with reports of alleged transfers in favor of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) or banned organizations.

"A person gets lost, gets scared by the very wording of the article and begins to comply with the demands of the attackers," the lawyer noted.

However, a note to Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for the possibility of exemption from criminal liability if a person promptly informed law enforcement agencies that he had transferred funds due to a misunderstanding or by mistake, the source recalled.

The very article on financing extremist activities, as noted by the lawyer, provides for serious sanctions, up to long terms of imprisonment.

"One should not play with the financing of organizations recognized as extremist," Karelov concluded.

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