In Moscow, a man received a fine for insulting the Prosecutor General's Office.

A court in Moscow fined a man for insulting treatment sent to the reception of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. This is stated in the court's materials on May 20.

According to the document, the appeal contained insulting statements addressed to the senior prosecutor of the reception department. After that, an administrative protocol was drawn up against the man under the article of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation on insult, RIA Novosti reports.

The amount of the imposed fine is not specified in the court's materials. At the same time, the article provides for punishment in the form of a fine from 3 thousand to 5 thousand rubles.

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Sofya Lukinova, head of the Legal Department of VMT Consult, said on April 2 that the use of profanity on the Internet may entail administrative liability under the same rules as in the offline space. According to him, such actions qualify as minor hooliganism under Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. The fine can range from 30,000 to 100,000 rubles, and in case of repeated violations, it can increase to 200-300 thousand rubles.