MOSCOW. Dec 6 (Interfax) - Moscow's Tagansky District Court has found inaccurate the information spread online by human rights activist Olga Romanova (designated as a foreign agent in Russia) alleging that businessman Oleg Deripaska owned private military companies.
"The court has compelled Romanova to refute the inaccurate information defaming Oleg Deripaska, which was given in a post published indefinitely in her account on the X social network (formerly known as Twitter)," Deripaska's lawyer Alexei Melnikov told Interfax.
The ruling will take effect in 30 days unless it is appealed.
The court ordered to fine Romanova 10,000 rubles for every day of the possible non-fulfillment of its order, Melnikov said.
Melnikov said that, earlier, journalist Yelizaveta Osetinskaya (designated as a foreign agent in Russia), the founder of the Bell online outlet (designated as a foreign agent), whose channel spread the inaccurate information, volunteered to delete it, "thus confirming the absence of factual grounds for disseminating such information."
Then Deripaska dropped the claim to Osetinskaya.
Before that, he filed a defamation claim against Osetinskaya and Romanova.
The claim was based on Romanova's interview, where she alleged that Deripaska owned two private military companies. Deripaska said, "This information is false and slanderous."
He did not ask for compensation but demanded that the respondent refute the false information.