# St. Petersburg police detain German citizen over small donation to Anti-Corruption Foundation

https://mins.news/en/item/24182

- Meduza, 2026-08-17 13:03 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/17/st-petersburg-police-detain-german-citizen-over-small-donation-to-anti-corruption-foundation

> St. Petersburg police detained a 41-year-old German citizen accused of transferring 900 rubles to an organization designated “extremist” by Russian authorities and searched his apartment. Fontanka reported that the organization was the Anti-Corruption Foundation. Another man, Igor Zaytsev, was jailed pending trial over a similar donation. Mediazona counted at least 225 related criminal cases nationwide by April 2026.

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