Businessman Sergei Mikhailov, who was considered one of the leaders of the Solntsevo organized crime group, took advantage of the "right to oblivion"

Businessman Sergei Mikhailov, known in certain circles as Mikhas and repeatedly mentioned in the media as one of the leaders of the Solntsevo organized crime group, took advantage of the “right to oblivion” , demanding the removal of part of the information about himself from Internet snaps. In particular, the Yandex and Google systems limited the issuance of results at the request of "Sergey Mikhailov Mikhailov", "Sergey Mikhailov Mikhas Solntsevo", "Sergey Mikhailov Solntsevo" and a number of similar formulations, RBC notes.

Now, when entering the aforementioned requests, Yandex gives Internet users a warning: "Part of the search results is hidden in accordance with the Federal Law of 13.07.2015 N264-FZ." At the same time, journalists note that in the mobile version of the search engine there is no similar teaser.

Google, in turn, with the introduction of similar requests in the search bar, notifies the user that "some search results could be removed in accordance with local law."

The agency managed to contact the representative of Yandex, who, however, refused to comment, recalling that search engines are not entitled to disclose data on the authors of requests for the implementation of the "right to oblivion". It was not possible to get a comment from the journalists from the businessman himself.

The name of Sergei Mikhailov in the 1990s appeared in the Russian media in the context of crimes of the famous Solntsevo organized crime group. A businessman was often called one of the leaders of an organized criminal group.

In 1996, Mikhailov was arrested in Switzerland on charges of participating in the Solntsevsky organized crime group and laundering money and spent more than a year in prison. He categorically denied all the accusations against him. In 1998, the court, the prosecutor of which the famous Swiss prosecutor Bernard Bertoss acted, fully acquitted Mikhailov, recognizing all the accusations against him unproven.

Then the court considered insistent charges of the investigation, which assured that Mikhailov was a major criminal "authority" and heads the Solntsevo criminal group. Moreover, in court, Mikhailov managed to receive more than half a million dollars as compensation for arrest and the conclusion from the Swiss authorities. After that, he returned to Russia.

In 2002, in his country house in the Naro-Fominsky district of the Moscow Region, a search was searched. At the same time, Russian law enforcement agencies did not bring any accusations to Mikhailov.

Currently, the businessman devotes most of the time the work of the Participation charity fund, which in 1993 established "Together with other residents of the Solntsevo district of Moscow," says his official website .

The law on the "right to oblivion" began to operate in January 1 of this year. Now, any citizen can apply to the search engine working in the Russian Federation with a request to remove the links that do not arrange him to information about him. The search engine, having examined the application, can decide either to remove these links or refusal. In this case, a citizen will be able to apply to the court with a request to terminate the issuance of links to relevant information, attaching an official refusal of the search engine to the lawsuit.

The basis for removing links may be the recognition of the information contained in them "irrelevant due to the subsequent actions of the applicant" or some events. For example, if a citizen changed his job, he receives the right to demand the deletion of links to the electronic directory page, which refers to his previous place of work. A citizen is also not entitled to demand that he was in prison. The serving of punishment does not mean the removal or repayment of a criminal record.

At the end of March of this year, search engines summed up the first results during the work of the new law. Then it was reported that from January 1, Yandex received more than 3.6 thousand appeals demanding to remove links to information from the search results of 1,348 people. Only 27% of appeals were satisfied, 73% of the company refused. Including in 9% of cases the refusal was partial.

In Mail.Ru, the share of satisfied appeals was approximately the same - 30%. The company does not disclose absolute numbers. At the same time, the Sputnik search engine satisfies almost all requests, and Google refuses to comment on the topic.

According to Yandex, more than half (51%) users are asked to remove links to reliable but irrelevant information. 30% of the appeals relate to the removal of false information in the opinion of the user. 23% of the links relate to information about the repaid criminal records, 3% - about crimes with the expired statute of limitations, in 19% of cases we are talking about information distributed in violation of the law, and 25% of the information consider the applicants to be irrelevant for other reasons.