The court ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to pay almost 300 thousand rubles due to an error in the passport.

The Primorsky Regional Court ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia to pay almost 300 thousand rubles to a resident of the region for a technical error in the passport, which led to the disruption of the trip. This was announced on July 10 on the page of the court in the social network VKontakte.

The Judicial Board for Civil Cases considered the appeal of the department against the decision of the lower instance. Earlier, damages in the amount of 234,438 rubles, compensation for moral damage in 50 thousand rubles, as well as court costs and state duty were collected in favor of the plaintiff from the Russian Federation in the person of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The total amount of payments was 298,471 rubles.

The claim was based on incorrect information in the machine-readable line of the passport. Because of this defect, the woman's document was cancelled during border control in Thailand. The Russian woman herself was placed in a temporary detention cell, and her underage son had to get to the hotel for a fee.

During the day, the woman tried to resolve the situation by contacting the Russian Embassy in Thailand, migration services and a travel company. As a result, she and her child were forced to return to Russia at their own expense.

In the appeal, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs asked to reduce the amount of compensation for moral damage. The defendant insisted that the agency's actions were not intentional, and the police had already produced a new passport for the woman and fully reimbursed the cost of the failed vacation with all additional costs.

"Checking the arguments of the defendant's appeal against the validity of the court's decision regarding the determination of the amount of compensation for moral damage, the judicial board concluded that there were no grounds for reducing its amount," the report says.

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