The Russian Instruction Committee requested this Monday preventive detention for a Colombian accused of spreading on social networks “Fake news” regarding the Russian military campaign in Ukrainea charge that might cost him up to 10 years in prison.
According to the official website of the Moscow Courts, the petition was once morest Albert Henry Giraldo who has lived in that country for several years.
The Colombian citizen is charged with the crime typified by article 207 of the Russian Penal Code, which punishes “the public dissemination of false information under the guise of truthful information regarding the Russian Armed Forces.”
According to the Interfax agency, the spokeswoman for the Basmanni Court of Moscow, Yekaterina Buravtsova, the court received the request of the instructors of the case “to apply to the Colombian citizen Giraldo Sarái Alberto Enrique the precautionary prison measure”.
“We just found out a few minutes ago,” a representative of the Colombian embassy in Moscow told Efe.
According to the investigators, the Colombian, who formed a private confectionery business in Moscow, spread the alleged fake news on their social networks, without specifying which ones.
If you are proven guilty, Giraldo might be fined with between 3 and 5 million rubles (regarding 40,000 to 67,000 dollars), or sentenced to five years of compulsory social work or a jail term of between 5 and 10 years
