In Irkutsk, a businessman was fined 150 thousand rubles for organizing a gathering against coronavirus restrictions and recording an appeal to Putin

The Kirovsky District Court of Irkutsk fined Mikhail Ozhiganov, chairman of the Association of Entrepreneurs, 150 thousand rubles for organizing a public gathering and recording a video message to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to soften coronavirus restrictions. informs “Siberia. Realities”.

According to card administrative case on the website of the court, Ozhiganov was fined on November 22 under the article on repeated violation of the rules for holding the action (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

According to Ozhiganov, the police forged his signature in the administrative protocol and other documents. “Yesterday I was detained without reason, although I was not hiding anywhere, they kept me in the cold all night, and this morning I find out in the protocol that someone has already signed for me! What kind of court can be based on such documents ?! ” – said the entrepreneur.

Previously, he wrote on Instagram that after the arrest, the security forces did not give him the opportunity to go to the toilet and did not feed him.

November 13 Ozhiganov published video message to Vladimir Putin. In the video, he demanded “to stop the lawlessness in the Irkutsk region.” According to the entrepreneur, local authorities, ignoring the words of the President of the Russian Federation, oblige businessmen to vaccinate their employees.

“We believe that forcing citizens to provide QR codes for the possibility of using public places (shops, educational institutions, etc.) is a method of compulsion to undergo vaccination, which qualifies as compulsion to medical intervention, the inadmissibility of which is enshrined in Article 20 of the Federal Law of November 21 .2011 № 323-ФЗ “On the basics of health protection of citizens in the Russian Federation”, – wrote Ozhiganov in a commentary to the video.