The administrator "Ombudsman of the Police" came with a search

In the apartment to the administrator of the public "Ombudsman of the Police" Vladimir Vorontsov came with a search. He shook the telegram channel about this. “I have a search in my apartment, they break the door,” Vorontsov wrote on Tuesday morning.

"Human rights postcards" with reference to lawyer Sergei Badamshin reports that the search also takes place with the parents of the wife of Vorontsov. Investigative actions are carried out accompanied by employees of the Center for Combating Extremism and the Special Party of Thunder.

The searches are connected with the criminal case for the dissemination of "knowingly false information about the circumstances that pose a threat to life and security by a citizen." According to the investigation , on April 2, on the wall of one of the communities on VKontakte on behalf of the user, Vladimir Vorontsov was placed under the guise of a reliable message of an anonymous author that cadets and officers of one of the military educational institutions, which supposedly 70 percent of those ill with coronavirus, force the morning charge.

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On April 8, the RT channel reported that the Police of St. Petersburg opened an administrative case of the spread of fakes about coronavirus against Vorontsov. According to the television channel, it was supposedly drawn up for it under the article “The abuse of freedom of the mass media”, which provides for a fine of up to 100 thousand rubles.

Vorontsov himself wrote in the public that neither the police nor the prosecutor’s office were associated with him, but he learned about the case from RT news. According to him, the post proposed by one of the users of the public was deleted by the VKontakte administration.

On April 14, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the dissemination of false information.