Friends of a Melbourne woman who drowned on the Gold Coast have been left further distressed after a GoFundMe campaign to send her body home to Russia was suddenly suspended amid concerns it could breach US sanctions. The online fundraiser was launched after personal trainer Julia Boiko, 29, and her friend, Gold Coast gym manager Jake Jacobs, 32, drowned during a late night swim at Broadbeach last Thursday. It had raised almost $30,000 when it was abruptly shut down by GoFundMe this week. In an email to campaign organiser Helena Santi, a GoFundMe compliance official said the fundraiser had been suspended because you may be raising funds for a cause that is in or connected to a location currently facing sanctions by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury .
Julia Boiko s lifeless body washed ashore at Kurrawa Beach on the Gold Coast
She had gone swimming with British gym manager Jake Jacobs late at night
Her friend Helena Santi ran a fundraiser to help pay for Ms Boiko s funeral costs
GoFundMe page raised almost $30,000 before platform shut it down this week
Said page fundraising for cause linked to location facing sanctions from the US
 A FUNDRAISING campaign has been launched to send the body of a young woman who died in a tragic double drowning on the Gold Coast home to her mother in Russia. Julia Boiko, 29, and her friend Jake Jacobs, 32, drowned during a late night swim at Broadbeach on Thursday. Mr Jacobs was the manager of local gym My Fitness Club, where Ms Boiko - a champion bodybuilder and personal trainer - also trained. One of her heartbroken friends, Helena Khomyakova, has started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to send the Ukrainian-born women s body to Russia where her mother lives. Ms Khomyakova said the campaign was a cry for help following the unbelievable tragedy .