The St. Petersburg City Court softened the preventive measure for entrepreneur Alexander Konovalov, who led the “bar resistance” to QR codes during the coronavirus pandemic. The man was transferred from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest. This was reported by the press service of the courts of St. Petersburg.
Konovalov is accused of mediating the transfer of bribes (parts 2, 3, 4 of article 291.1 of the Criminal Code) and violating sanitary and epidemiological rules that created a threat of mass disease of people (part 1 of the article 236 of the Criminal Code). The court softened the measure of restraint, as the accused entered into a pre-trial agreement on cooperation with the investigation.
The case against Konovalov was opened in January 2022, the court sent the man to a pre-trial detention center. According to investigators, the entrepreneur helped the manager of the Lounge Bar Pacman anti-cafe to return the hookahs confiscated during the search for 50 thousand rubles. In addition, he is charged with two more episodes of mediation in the transfer of bribes in the amount of 1.177 million and 36 thousand rubles.
For many years he “resolved issues”, but ended up in a pre-trial detention center after “bar resistance” to QR codes. What do we know about Alexander Konovalov
Earlier, Konovalov compiled a list of St. Petersburg establishments that refused to check visitors' coronavirus vaccination certificates. After that, the security forces conducted raids on 20 bars in the city that were boycotting QR codes. The police drew up more than a hundred protocols against visitors and legal entities, and the UK opened a case on violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules (part 1 of article 236 of the Criminal Code).