According to the agency’s website, the facts of posting inaccurate socially significant information that was disseminated under the guise of reliable messages creating the threat of mass disturbance of public order and public safety were revealed.
“So, on one of the pages on VKontakte’s social network, a publication was revealed stating 60 cases of confirmed coronavirus infection in Penza, as well as free movement of sick citizens around the city,” the statement said.
On March 26, it was reported that a working group had appeared in the Investigative Committee to identify fakes about coronavirus on the Internet.
Pavel Krasheninnikov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on State Building and Law, said that the Criminal Code of Russia will be amended to punish fakes in connection with coronavirus.