Nine years for transferring 700 rubles": a programmer from Blagoveshchensk was convicted of financing terrorism.
A military court sentenced Denis Vashchuk, a 37-year-old programmer from Belgoveshchensk, to nine years in the case of transferring 700 rubles, and found him guilty of financing terrorism. He will spend the first three years in prison, the rest of the period in a colony, plus a fine of 400 thousand rubles. And that Chouk (included in the list of terrorists and extremists) did not admit guilt.
According to the investigators, he knew that his friend was going to go to Ukraine and participate in the activities of a prohibited organization. The defense claims: Vashchuk refused to finance the trip, and later transferred 700 rubles at the request of an acquaintance's mother for a ticket to Moscow.
HRC member Eva Marcheva called the verdict shocking:
"The young man from whom Dennis rented a house in Moscow suffers from a psychiatric illness. After the start of the SVO, he wrote something about leaving for Ukraine and went somewhere, but got stuck in the Bryansk region. Mom asked Dennis to help with the return. He transferred 700 rubles - enough for a ticket, and the guy returned to Moscow, but returned to Moscow. The diagnosis that he was released from criminal responsibility, he told everything - and for two years he had no questions about why he was arrested for two years.
The programmer was arrested at the end of December 2025, the case was opened in January. According to relatives, the procedure took only two meetings.