Detained for driving under the influence of a priest from Surgut was fined a thousand rubles. About it RIA Novosti said the representative of the Surgut city court Diana Andreeva Wednesday, September 19.
The interviewee of the Agency said that the penalty was prescribed for disobedience to the demand of a police officer in drawing up the Protocol (article 19.3 Cao RF). She added that the priest admitted the fact of the offense and “repented”. However, on the court’s website there is no information about the verdict in this article.
Earlier, on 18 September, the media announced the detention a drunken servant of the Church of the road patrol service of Surgut. The man moved through the streets of the city on the cars and was swerving from side to side. He introduced the inspectors priest Darius John tried to resist, so the patrol had to handcuff him. The author of the video said that the priest tried to solve the issue with money, but was refused.
According to the website of the Khanty-Mansiysk eparchy, the priest Darius, John, 38 years old, he serves as a cleric in the Church in honour of St. George the victorious Surgut. The title he received in 2001 from the Metropolitan of Chisinau and all Moldova Vladimir (Cantarana). In 2004, the priest was graduated from the Chisinau theological Academy.