State Control Committee visits publisher and director of Binoculars city magazine. Documents and 9 computers are seized.

They inspect­ed their homes and the office of the mag­a­zine as part of the check-up into large scale tax eva­sion.

The direc­tor, the pub­lish­er and her hus­band were released after ques­tion­ing.  The inves­tiga­tive check of the col­lect­ed facts and mate­ri­als can last up to 3 months. It might end with the start of a crim­i­nal case.

A lot of doc­u­ments, 9 com­put­ers and 2 phones were seized.

Binoc­u­lars is a pop­u­lar online mag­a­zine cov­er­ing the social and cul­tur­al life of Brest. Jour­nal­ists work­ing with the mag­a­zine were detained sev­er­al times while cov­er­ing the protests in 2020.