Kamleva has been in custody since December 2025, when Latvia's State Security Service (VDD) detained her and carried out investigative actions at two sites linked to her in Rezekne and Preili municipality, according to Delfi. Accounting for time already served, she has about five years and two months left to serve.

Investigators say that in December 2024 Kamleva exchanged WhatsApp messages with an acquaintance in Russia who was a contact person for the military-patriotic special-training center Kaskad. He proposed helping raise money for the Russian army — for a mobile electronic-warfare system, specifically a device described as the "Dome Cover of Electronic Warfare FPV-4 — drone suppressor."

Transferring money directly from a Latvian bank to a Russian one was impossible, so Kamleva turned to an acquaintance in Belarus and asked him to make the payment on her behalf. He transferred 157 Belarusian rubles from his account — about 43 euros. He did not know the true purpose of the payment.

The correspondence with the man, whose avatar showed a photo of him in military uniform, was found at the border when Kamleva was returning to Latvia from Russia. In court she said the photograph made it impossible to tell whether it was a military uniform or simply camouflage clothing.

In her final statement, Kamleva said she had not intended to finance the Russian army and that this did not follow unambiguously from the correspondence. According to her, she had been left without work and was in a severe psychological state, so she could not refuse a person's request. "I acted wrongly. I ask you to distinguish a wrong act from criminal intent. I did not have it," she said.

The prosecution had sought eight years in prison. Latvia's Criminal Code provides for up to ten years in prison and up to three years of probation supervision for financing an armed conflict.

Delfi describes Kamleva as a pro-Russian activist and a member of the party Russian Union of Latvia. According to TASS, she has been added to Ukraine's Myrotvorets database for financing the Russian Armed Forces, supporting Russia and spreading anti-Ukrainian propaganda.