According to the data from the documents that RT has at its disposal, on April 2, the article “Methods of combating coronavirus at the FSB Institute” appeared in the community “Police Ombudsman” on VKontakte.
From the publication, according to the prosecutor's office, it follows that "at the Institute of the FSB of Russia in St. Petersburg 70% of patients with coronavirus infection". In this regard, the prosecutor's office sent a request to the institute about whether this information is true.
Upon the publication of false information, an administrative case was instituted against Vladimir Vorontsov, who appears on the public page in Vkontakte as his administrator.
The materials of the prosecutor’s inspection arrived at the police. Vorontsov “published knowingly false information that creates an opinion among users about the threat of mass disturbance of public order and public security,” the resolution of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Central District of St. Petersburg on bringing to administrative responsibility the administrator of the public “Police Ombudsman” says.
According to the Code of Administrative Offenses, he faces a fine of up to 100 thousand rubles.