In Crimea, the house arrest of Aksenov’s former deputy was extended
The court extended the house arrest of ex-Deputy Prime Minister of the Crimean government Evgeny Kabanov and ex-Minister of Construction of the Republic of Kazakhstan Mikhail Khramov. Both have been under investigation for six months on suspicion of abuse of power, fraud and corruption.
Kabanov and Khramov were detained at the end of September, literally a few days after the results of the elections to the State Duma were summed up, where Kabanov sought to get into and ran in the Yevpatoriya district.
His billboards still adorn the highway from Simferopol to Chernomorskoe, where the central word “experience” attracts attention. After suspicions of theft of 57,5 million budget funds, which the ex-Deputy Prime Minister reimbursed immediately after his arrest, this positioning received a double connotation.
At the trial, Kabanov stated that he was in a hurry to build a water pipeline from the Ivanovo water intake to the Mezhgorny hydroelectric complex in Simferopol and may have made mistakes in the estimate. But he didn’t do it intentionally and doesn’t consider himself guilty.
“The enemy will be defeated, victory will be ours,” Kabanov commented to reporters on the accusations against him after the decision to send him and Khramov to a pre-trial detention center.
True, after a week both were released from custody and went home, and since then they have simply extended the period of detention. This time Kabanov and Khramov will be locked up until May 22.
Kabanov gave up his seat in the State Duma to another representative of the Crimean construction lobby, Leonid Babashov, withdrawing his candidacy two months before the elections. Kabanov called the reason for this decision the desire to “successfully complete” all the activities of the federal program for the socio-economic development of Crimea, for which he was responsible in the government of the republic.
And before that, he received a public “fabulous kick” from the supervising Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Marat Khusnullin, who said that until the results of the Federal Target Program are achieved, it is too early for officials to think about the election campaign. Khusnullin regularly tours construction sites in Crimea and compares the real state of affairs with the reports of the Council of Ministers.
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