Court in Moscow fined writer Akunin for violating the law on foreign agents

Tagansky district court of Moscow has brought writer Boris Akunin (real name - Grigory Chkhartishvili, foreign agent, entered in the register of terrorists and extremists) to administrative responsibility. This was reported on December 4 by the press service of the courts of general jurisdiction of the capital.

"By the decision of the Tagansky district court of the city of Moscow Chkhartishvili Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili was found guilty of committing an administrative offense under part 4 of article 19.34 of the CAO RF ("Violation of the order of the activities of a foreign agent")", - stated in the Telegram-channel of the instance.

In the form of administrative punishment the writer was assigned a fine of 45 thousand rubles.

Earlier, in December 2023, a criminal case was initiated against Akunin. The writer was suspected of public justification of terrorism and dissemination of knowingly false information about the actions of the Russian Armed Forces. In the same month the author from the Smolensk region Tatyana Vikentyeva filed a lawsuit against the writer for plagiarism for 1 million rubles.

On September 23 this year, Vikentyeva, who accused Akunin of plagiarism, called him a literary thief. According to her, he stole from her works "Cemetery Stories" and "House of Death".

In early February 2024, the Basmanny court of Moscow arrested him in absentia. The writer was put on an international wanted list. In January, the Ministry of Justice included Akunin in the register of foreign agents.