Petersburg bar Apotheke, which the Investigative Committee sealed as material evidence in a criminal case, will incur approximately 1 million rubles. losses per week of downtime. This was reported to RBC by the owner of the institution Dmitry Kinichenko.
On the night of April 8, at about 00:57 local time (coincides with Moscow time), employees of the Investigative Committee and the Russian Guard entered the bar, according to Kinichenko. “(They) asked the guests to leave the establishment after checking their documents,” the businessman said.
Law enforcement officers then sealed the bar, “hung a barn lock and a chain,” the owner said. The investigation, according to him, considered the bar material evidence in a criminal case on the involvement of minors in drinking alcohol. There were no minors among the visitors whose documents were checked, the interlocutor assured.
The owner of another bar said that employees of the Investigative Committee, OMON, the Ministry of Emergency Situations came to him “at half past one in the night.” “They say: guys, provide us with all your documents, even if everything is in order, we will seal you. We didn’t have anything to say here. To the question “why”, they say: so you have a youngster in an institution. I say: where – and they show me a friend who is sitting in a corner on the sofa, ”said the owner. “We didn’t let him in, he came in with the bulk of the employees and sat down in a corner,” he added. As a result, law enforcement officers looked at the documents of the bar and issued a fine of 30 thousand rubles. bartender “for a youngster”, and then sealed the institution.
“We have absolutely no information about the dates (for which the bar was closed).
“When will this all be resolved?” – the owner of another bar told RBC. “Based on the situation, we say: our rent is dripping, our employees are without salaries, about 40 people are left without work. Illegal ones were shut down and figs with them, but about 10-12 legal ones remained there. They (law enforcement agencies) closed them. We say how long this whole situation will drag on. They say: “Under this article, it can be investigated within the framework of a criminal case for two, and three months, and six months, a year, and even five – we can’t tell you anything,” he said.
RBC sent a request to the UK.
On the night of April 8, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Russian Guard and the Investigative Committee raided bars in the center of St. Petersburg. The press service of the Investigative Committee said that the security forces conducted a search in 13 bars on Lomonosov Street “in order to find and seize items and documents of interest to the investigation.” Fontanka also wrote that during the raid, law enforcement officers visited bars on Dumskaya Street and the embankment of the Griboyedov Canal. Some of the bars on these streets were sealed at the end of March. The Investigative Committee recognized them as material evidence in a criminal case on the involvement of teenagers in “committing antisocial acts.”
The searches were carried out as part of the case on the involvement of minors in the systematic use of alcoholic and alcohol-containing products (part 1 of article 151 of the Criminal Code). The Investigative Committee referred to the announcement, which, according to its data, appeared on the Internet on February 22. It said that in one of the bars there will be a party with an age limit of 16+. After that, someone “purchased alcoholic and alcohol-containing products, and also sold them to an unlimited circle of minors,” the UK believes.