Against the deputy Olga Lee, who accused Putin of a “criminal conspiracy”, they opened a case

In the Kursk region, a criminal case was opened against a deputy of the Kursk Regional Duma Olga Lee, who more than two weeks ago posted a video in YouTube, which stated that Putin pursued foreign and domestic policy to the collapse of the financial system of Russia and the suppression of the legal state. Lee also accused Putin of a “criminal conspiracy against my own people” and “propaganda of violence”, which filled state television channels.

Olga Li told Radio Liberty that she had not yet received an official decision to institute criminal proceedings, and found out a criminal case against her on Thursday, March 24, at a meeting of deputies of the Kursk regional Duma from the chairman of the regional Duma and the first deputy prosecutor of the Kursk region Nikolai Studenikin, who informed her that, due to her appeals to the President of Russia, they had a criminal case, which was brought to her, according to which her Allegedly accused of slander and extremism. According to Lee, at the end of the hearing, the deputies of United Russia, the Communist Party and the LDPR openly expressed their dissatisfaction with her. Lee told the publication that she was most criticized for not supporting Crimea to join Russia and insults Putin.

“The Communist Party deputy said that my words about the illegal accession of Crimea are disconnected by the country, and in this difficult time it is necessary to consolidate around the Crimea. The deputy invited me to publicly repent and abandon my words. I said that the actions of today's government will lead the country to war. I do not want this and I will not retreat from my conviction. I expressed my assessment judgments to which I have the right. I was ready for problems and I will solve them as I arrive, ”Olga Lee quotes Radio.

Information on the initiation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 298.1 of the Criminal Code (slander against the judge, in connection with the consideration of cases or materials in court) appeared on Thursday on the website of the Investigative Committee of the Kursk Region.

The website of the department, in particular, reports that “the newspaper in the issue of September - October 2015, the newspaper“ People’s Journalist ”published an article entitled“ An application for bringing the prosecutor of the Filimonov region to criminal liability ”. In this article, the author, according to the investigation, spreads obviously false information, defaming the honor, dignity and undermining the professional reputation of the judge of the Leninsky district court of the city of Kursk, accusing him of making an obviously unlawful decision in the case of an administrative offense.

Olga Li told the Radio Liberty correspondent that in May 2015 the correspondent of the publication “People’s Journalist”, which she heads, came with a statement to the actions of the regional prosecutor to the prosecutor. She stood near the prosecutor's office with the cow. The employee was accused of conducting an unauthorized rally. Judge Shurova, according to Lee, behaved incorrectly during the meeting, for example, she said before his end that the journalist was guilty. However, this article, where the actions of the judges were described, was remembered only now, six months later, after the rollers of the deputy criticized the president.