Veronika Belotserkovskaya

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: June 24, 2022

Attack type:

Arrest of bank account/ property

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: RBC

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has arrested the property of blogger Veronika Belotserkovskaya accused of spreading «fakes» about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The arrest was imposed on a flat and a car space in Moscow, residential houses, a flat and a plot of land in St Petersburg.

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