Olga Li was re-charged

The Investigative Committee re-charged Olga Li, a former deputy of the Kursk Regional Duma and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Narodny Zhurnalist”, with slander against a judge (Part 1 of Article 298.1 of the Criminal Code), lawyer Roman Lyzlov reported with reference to the decision received today to charge him as a defendant. prepared by the investigator for especially important cases of the department for the investigation of especially important cases of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Kursk Region, Major of Justice Sergei Eshtokin.

The case will be sent back to court. On November 24, 2016, the Leninsky District Court of Kursk returned to the prosecutor’s office Olga Li’s criminal case of libel against the judge of the Leninsky District Court of Kursk, Lyudmila Shurova. Previously, the Investigative Committee stopped, due to the lack of corpus delicti, the criminal prosecution of Olga Li for “inciting hatred or enmity on the basis of belonging to a social group of government officials” (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).