Russia opens criminal case against father of former Navalny aide

FILE PHOTO: Leonid Volkov, the top aide of Alexei Navalny, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Vilnius, Lithuania March 12, 2024. REUTERS/Gerhard Mey/File photo

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has opened a criminal case against the 69-year-old father of Leonid Volkov, a former aide to late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, state news agency TASS reported on Thursday.

TASS quoted a security source as saying that Mikhail Volkov, a renowned mathematics professor, was suspected of transferring money to Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, which is banned in Russia as an extremist organisation.