A second case of military “fakes” was opened against the founder of CIT Ruslan Leviev

A second case of military “fakes” was opened against the founder of the Conflict Intelligence Team project, Ruslan Leviev (Karpuk), because of words about the shelling of a children’s hospital in Mariupol by the Russian army. this on Twitter Leviev himself announced .

According to the decision to initiate the case, Leviev is accused of disseminating “knowingly false information” motivated by political hatred (clause “d” of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The reason for the case was a stream on the YouTube channel “Popular Politics”.

The founder of CIT spoke during the broadcast about the shelling of a children's hospital in Mariupol by the Russian military. At the same time, according to the investigator, the Ministry of Defense denies involvement in the incident.

Journalist and blogger Michael Naki also spoke about a new case based on a similar article . He did not specify what exactly was the reason for the new accusation. “As long as Putin says that there will be no witch hunt, they will not settle scores with those who took a step aside, they opened a second case against me!” the blogger wrote.

In May last year, Leviev was arrested in absentia under the article on the creation of military “fakes” by a group of people “with the artificial creation of evidence of the accusation” (clause “c” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Naki is on the case with him.

After the start of the war in Ukraine, the founder of CIT left Russia. After news of the criminal case, he wrote that he was in Poland.

Updated at 14:02. Added information about the new case against Michael Naki.