The procuracy of the Abakan city, the Republic of Khakassia checked the data and admitted the opening of the criminal case against the editor-in-chief of the internet-magazine “Novy Focus” Mikhail Afanasyev to be legal. He is suspected of spreading the knowingly false information about the consequences of the accident, and of libel, discrediting honor and dignity of the Khakas and Sayan-Shushenskaya hydro-electric power station authorities.
It was found out that Mikhail Afanasyev, having the authentic official information about the fact that non-stop accident management works at the Sayan-Shushenskaya hydro-electric power station are going on and that measures are taken to find the unaccounted people, spread the knowingly false information in the internet-magazine “Novy Focus” discrediting honor, dignity and business reputation of the Republic and Sayan-Shushenskaya hydro-electric power station authorities.
At the moment judicial scrutiny is held on the criminal action. The procuracy of the Republic is checking all the information about the Sayan-Shushenskaya hydro-electric power station accident, spread in the mass media on the territory of the Republic of Khakassia.
According to the Head EMERCOM of Russia Sergey Shoigu, after the accident there was a “panic spread of anonymous information, coming from paranormalists, informers, who were saying that “everything will be covered with water”. Much time was needed to “demolish these blasphemous statements”.
Only on the 17 of August 30 road accidents were provoked in the capital of the Republic by the alarmists. The panic among the Khakas citizens was over only after the authorities’ interference.
