Lohvinau collects about $1,500 in donations overnight
This is according to the site created to support the fined store.
If you believe the meter at the savelohvinau.club, at 16:00, January 21, that is in a little more than a day, about $ 1,500 of donations was collected. Overall, a little more than 65,000 need to be collected. For this Ihar Lohvinau and his team have a month.
On January 20, Ihar Lohvinau, Belarusian publisher and Lohvinau bookstore owner, appealed to the public. At a press conference in Minsk, he recalled that recently the economic court sentenced him to a fine of more than 5 million rubles "for illegal business activities". He will also be charged 961 million rubles, which the tax authorities considered the store profit.
Publisher was accused of selling books without a license from the Ministry of information.
Who is Igar Lohvinau and why his bookstore is on trial
In court, Ihar Lohvinau did not admit his guilt. He also noted that 961 million rubles is not profit of the shop but its turnover. Lohvinau said that the bookstore works almost for free. However, the court did not take into account the arguments of the bookseller.
Logvinau ordered by court to pay almost a billion rubles
The court ordered to charge Lohvinau nearly a billion rubles.
On Tuesday, Lohvinau asked for public assistance in the payment of the fine - those 961 million rubles.
