The Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg, at the request of the Ministry of Justice, fined the Association of Carriers of Russia (OPR) for 100 thousand rubles on charges of violating the law on foreign agents. The organization did not provide a report on the expenditure of funds. about this with reference to human rights activist Dinar Idrisov. writes MBH Media
According to him, the Ministry of Justice should have issued a warning to the organization, in which it would have pointed out the violation and set a deadline for their elimination. Idrisov claims that the Ministry of Justice should have confirmed the status of a foreign agent, but did not.
“But where is the evidence that the truckers were foreign agents in the autumn? Why are they being fined?” Idrisov said.
The Association of Carriers of Russia appeared in 2015. The main goal of the organization is to protect the rights of truckers. The ODA opposes the Platon system. In December 2017, the Ministry of Justice entered the organization into the register of foreign agents, despite the fact that ODA representatives claim that they do not receive foreign funding.