"Suprotek" from fear: the manufacturer of auto chemistry saves its image?
How Suprotek "cleans up" information about itself on the Internet , and tries to "intimidate" journalists.
The manufacturer of auto chemistry and engine oils is the Suprotek group, to which there are questions, including motorists, it seems, has decided to clean up the media space from any criticism of it. The beneficiaries of the group, in the past of which even Alexei Raevsky, the full namesake of an ex-FSB officer involved in a dirty story with raiding, decided to impede the professional activities of The Moscow Post journalists?
After The Moscow Post published the material "Autosmaz with a taste of raiding: what is behind the" rise "of the Suprotek Group of Companies?," The editorial office received a pre-trial claim from NPTK Suprotek LLC signed by General Director Sergei Zelenkov, who is also a co-owner of a 50% stake in the company. The essence of the claim boiled down to the fact that a number of lines listed in the publication allegedly defame the company’s business reputation, and simply put, the beneficiaries did not like the criticism. And Zelenkov demanded not to remove these six lines, which, in our opinion, did not violate the law in any way, but to remove the entire (!!!) article, as well as apologize, which, by the way, is not provided for in the current legislation at all.
And in order, probably, to completely intimidate journalists, Zelenkov said that if the article is not deleted within the allotted period, then "an appeal will be drawn up to the Prosecutor’s Office to deprive the media license." In itself, such a statement is legally illiterate, since under the Federal Law "On the Media," the termination of media activities is possible only on a number of points and there are no complaints from the offended defendants in the publications among them.