VORONEZH, February 16 Investigators have opened a criminal case against the former head of the Tambov Ministry of Health, Alexander Ovchinnikov, for insulting police officers, the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the region reported in the telegram channel.< br />«The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Tambov Region has opened a criminal case against a 48-year-old man, who at the time of the incriminated events was performing the duties of the region's Minister of Health. He is suspected of committing a crime under Article 319 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (insulting a government official)» , — reported the Investigative Directorate.
On Monday, information appeared on Telegram channels that on Saturday, February 10, on the Caspian highway in the Tambov region, traffic police officers stopped two cars — one of them had traces of a roe deer carcass, and the second was driving an acting officer. Minister of Health of the region Alexander Ovchinnikov. Afterwards, a video was spread online in which Ovchinnikov defiantly communicates with the police, showing his ID and hinting at his position. Investigators found that Ovchinnikov “publicly, in the presence of civilians, repeatedly expressed himself towards government officials with words of gross obscene language.”
On Wednesday, a post appeared on the Telegram channel of the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Khinshtein, in which the deputy directly said that the acting Minister of Health “will inevitably become an ex-” because “arrogant behavior with a sense of permissiveness discredits the honor of all government officials.”
In connection with the incident, Ovchinnikov resigned and apologized to the police for “inappropriate behavior.”
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