MOSCOW, May 13 (RAPSI) – Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court on Monday fined Russian celebrity and prominent hairstylist Sergey Zverev 15,000 rubles ($230) for illegal single-person protest against the construction of a drink water bottling plant at Lake Baikal in the Irkutsk Region, RAPSI was told in the court’s press service.   

As previously reported, in March 2019, Zverev went on a picket on the Red Square. However, protest actions are prohibited there, according to Russian legislation.

The court found Zverev guilty of violating an authorized order of organizing or holding meetings, rallies, protests, demonstration and pickets.

In March, a court granted a lawsuit filed by the West Baikal trans-regional environmental prosecutor's office and suspended the construction of the drink water bottling plant at Lake Baikal until violations revealed during the checks are remedied.

The prosecutor’s office found serious violations of environmental legislation obstructing the construction.

The plant's construction began in January 2019. The cumulative investment is about 1.5 billion rubles ($23 million).