The court terminated the case against the teacher Ponosov due to insignificant damage

Vereshchaginsky District Court of the Perm Territory decided to close the criminal case of the director of one of the local schools Alexander Ponosov, who was accused of using unlicensed software. It was decided not to elect preventive measures against Ponosov.

Ponosov said that he was not in principle not satisfied with the verdict and intends to appeal him. "It turns out that this justification is not due to the lack of corpus delicti, but because the damage to Microsoft Corporation is seeds," Ponosov told reporters after the verdict announcement.

At a meeting last Wednesday, the prosecution representative invited Ponosov to pay a fine of 3 thousand rubles , Interfax reports.

Earlier, the director of the Syphevskaya secondary school Ponosov did not admit his guilt and refused to go to the world. He is charged with the use of unlicensed software products from the autumn of 2005 to August 2006.

The fact of installation on all computers at the school of the village of Sypych Windows unlicensed programs was detected as a result of a prosecutor's audit. According to the results of the examination, the damage from the use of unlicensed programs amounted to more than 250 thousand rubles.

The criminal case was instituted under Article 146 of Part 3, "B" in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of copyright and related rights on an especially large scale).

The school principal was defended by Rospita, Rospatent, the Mikhail Gorbachev Foundation, the Public Chamber of Russia and the Ministry of Education of the Perm Territory, which demanded an additional examination of the software used in school computers.

A member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, lawyer Anatoly Kucheren believes that the director of the rural school in the Perm Territory of Ponosov should be fully justified.

"I regard the current decision of the court as half -hearted. The fact that the criminal case is terminated is good. But in our opinion, Alexander Ponosov is absolutely innocent and therefore must be fully justified, that is, the case must be discontinued for the lack of corpus delicti," Kucheren said.

Touching upon other consequences of this criminal case, Kucheren said: "Here, first of all, we must talk about the level of this case, primarily for law enforcement agencies. I am absolutely convinced that it is necessary to bring to criminal liability of persons who manufacture and distribute counterfeit products, but at the same time it is impossible to indecize innocent persons."

As for the legal assessment of the actions of the district prosecutor, who brought to criminal liability of the director of the rural school, Kucheren expressed the opinion that a higher instance - a higher prosecutor's office of the Perm Territory will give him an assessment.

For his part, Kucheren regarded the actions and position of the district prosecutor's office as "the protection of the honor of the uniform." “In this case, unfortunately, the accusation proceeded from the position of protection of honor and uniform, and not a specific citizen, which is absolutely unacceptable,” the lawyer emphasized.

He recalled that from the very beginning, the Public Chamber and the commission he headed by the control of the investigation of this case, and the representative of the commission was in court during the hearing. “We will continue to track the fate of this case,” Kucheren said.