The Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Emelyan Khalmakshinov to 15 days of arrest, who spoiled the signature sheet for nominating Vladimir Putin as a presidential candidate, Sotavision reports. Information about this is also available on the court's website.
A report on petty hooliganism was drawn up against the Muscovite (part 1 of article 20.1 of the Administrative Code). The hearing on his case took place on December 28.
The court ruling says that on December 26, Halmakshinov approached the counter collecting signatures for Putin’s nomination in the Boom shopping center in eastern Moscow. He told the volunteers that he wanted to leave a signature, after which he ruined the entire sheet of other people's signatures. Then Khalmakshinov asked to be given another ballot, and when he was refused, “continued to violate public order by insultingly pestering citizens.”
The Muscovite was detained in the evening of the same day near his house. He told Sotavision that he was part of the initiative group to nominate Ekaterina Duntsova as a presidential candidate. The security forces found information about this on his phone. In addition, according to Halmakshinov, police at the police department in the Maryina Roshcha district threatened him with sending him to war in Ukraine.
The court decision states that the Muscovite did not admit his guilt. At the meeting, he said that his hand simply trembled, and he entered someone else’s passport data into the signature sheet itself, because he was “afraid of persecution from the authorities.”