A criminal case was opened after Mikhail Bulgakov's passengers appealed to the doctors.

A criminal case was initiated after the passengers of the Mikhail Bulgakov ship addressed the doctors. This was reported on May 30 in the press service of the Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office.

"The vessel was operated with violations of sanitary and epidemiological rules, which led to the illness of passengers and treatment
to a medical professional," the department's Telegram channel says.

They noted that a criminal case had been opened on this fact under Part 1 of Article 236 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules that inadvertently caused mass illness or poisoning of people or created a threat of such consequences").

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A criminal case has been opened under the article on violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules.

Earlier that day, the Mikhail Bulgakov motor ship docked at the Severny Rechny Railway Station in Moscow. The vacationers who came on deck said they were satisfied with the cruise.

On May 28, it was reported that the passengers of the ship felt unwell on board. On the same day, Yaroslav Marchenko, Deputy commercial Director of the Moscow Shipping Company, told Izvestia that it was caused by a rotavirus infection. Mosturflot clarified that it was found in 14 people.