Billionaire Prigozhin sued Yandex and Google for refusing to remove links

Billionaire Evgeny Prigozhin complained to the Kuibyshevsky District Court on Google, Yandex and Mail.ru for refusing to remove links from the search results under the Law on Oblivion, Vedomosti write .

The newspaper, citing a court base, reports 20 claims against Internet companies in three months. In two claims against Mail.ru, the court has already refused, the rest of the decisions have not yet.

Yandex confirmed the Fontanka and Vedomosti in the St. Petersburg publication that Prigozhin demanded that they remove the link about it from the search engineering, but the company refused to satisfy this requirement.

Earlier it became known that on May 25 in St. Petersburg, law enforcement officers detained the motorcade of the head of the Concord group, and a small chase preceded the detention.

The video shows how one of the security guards of the billionaire demanded that the FSB be removed from the FSB officer, and a criminal case was opened on him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCVJW_2EXWG

According to Fontanka, three people were detained . It is not specified in the framework of which criminal case the detention was carried out. On the record, the security forces talk about the raid against the illegal use of special signals.

Prigozhin’s “Concord” is a group of companies, whose sphere of activity includes public catering and construction, the companies associated with a billionaire have contracts for servicing military towns throughout Russia, writes Fontanka. The New Gazeta called it the “Kremlin cook” and associated it with the “troll factory” in Olgin.

The law on the “right to oblivion” obliges the search engines to remove links from the issuance by the applicant’s claim in cases where the information is not true, is subject to violation or “is recognized as the value for the applicant due to subsequent events”. In cases where search engines refuse to satisfy the applicant’s claim, he has the right to appeal the decision in court.

As it became known on May 30, the “right to oblivion” was used by entrepreneur Sergei Mikhailov, known, known as Mikhas as the alleged leader of the “Solntsevskaya” organized crime group.