The charge against the leader of the “Stop GOK” movement was added to the deliberate destruction of the Tominsky forest

In Chelyabinsk, the charge in the case of the leader of the movement against the construction of the Tominsky Mining and Processing Plant (Stop GOK) Vasily Moskovets was added to an article on incitement to commit the deliberate destruction of someone else’s property (Part 4 of Article 33 of the Criminal Code, Part 2 of Article 167 UK). The activist wrote about this on Facebook.

The Moskovets case was combined with the case of another Stop GOK activist, Gamil Asatullin.

In December last year, it became known that a casewas opened against Moskovets for inciting hooliganism with the use of objects used as weapons by a group of persons by prior conspiracy (Part 4 of Article 33 of the Criminal Code, Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).

“This is a fictitious accusation for the events of last summer. <...> He was prosecuted after the fact and decided to involve him only when Moskovets announced his intention to participate in the elections for the mayor of Chelyabinsk,” said Agora lawyer Olga Lepekhina, representing the activist’s interests, at the time.

The decision to charge him as a defendant states that from June 9 to September 11, 2017, activists of the “Stop GOK” movement persuaded movement participants and “an unknown number of persons to commit hooliganism.” The document claims that all this was done in order to disorganize the construction and operation of the enterprise.

The document also states that through their joint actions, Moskovets and other activists placed a tent camp on the territory of the plant, which could interfere with the passage of firefighters. By this, the resolution says, activists could cause damage to the Main Forest Management of the Chelyabinsk Region in the amount of more than 1 million rubles.

• The confrontation between the authorities of the Chelyabinsk region and local residents is due to the construction of a mining and processing plant (GOK). Previously, particularly active opponents of the construction conflicted primarily with security guards and aggressive young men, who, apparently, were hired by the Russian Copper Company (RMK) involved in the construction. The authorities are preventing rallies against the mining and processing plant and are filing cases against activists. OVD-Info talked about this conflict.
• In February and March 2018, leaflets and graffiti appeared in Chelyabinsk and Kopeysk with insults against activists and their relatives and calls for the murder of Stop GOK activist Sergei Belogorokhov.
• In 2017, one of the activists of the “Stop GOK” movement became a defendant in a criminal case of hooliganism committed based on political and ideological hatred (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). Supporters of the movement called the case a provocation by the special services. Later, the activist claimed that employees of Center “E” forced the activist to slander Moskovets and refuse the services of a lawyer.