In Russia, two officials were demonstrably arrested
The deputy chairman of one of the municipal councils of Nizhny Novgorod, Andrei Kapustin, was detained by FSB officers right during a council meeting. He was handcuffed in front of his colleagues.
The recording of the arrest was published by the Russian Investigative Committee on Saturday, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Soon Kapustin was chosen as a preventive measure in the form of detention. FSB officers believe that he entered into fictitious contracts at inflated prices with the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Utility Company, as well as an organization subordinate to it.
The damage caused was estimated at 5,7 million rubles.
This is the second public arrest in Russia this week. On Friday, Tomsk Mayor Ivan Klein was detained during a conference call. The incident had to be commented on by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov.
“We noticed that the detention was harsh. This is probably due to the severity of the charges,” Peskov said.
According to the investigation, in 2016, the mayor instructed the head of the department of urban planning and architecture of the administration to introduce false information that the company’s enterprise had a 300-meter sanitary protection zone. As a result of these actions, a local entrepreneur lost the right to build multi-storey residential buildings on lands adjacent to the enterprise.
Later, another operational video was published. The video shows how Klein’s wife throws a pillow with account data worth more than 2 billion rubles to the driver when the security forces came to her. When they finally came to Galina Klein, there were banknotes scattered throughout the house.
It is noteworthy that Tomsk residents collected 600 signatures in support of their mayor and picketed the court, which decided on the preventive measure.
“The arrested mayor of Tomsk Klein at one time “dumped” Promsvyazbank (Ananyev brothers) and Russian Malt (a company close to Valentina Matvienko). Tomskoe Beer, owned by Klein, stole almost half a billion funds from them. Therefore, the local “Tomsk mafia”, promoting Klein to mayor, took a fair amount of risk. This always creates problems later, so apparently Klein had to take bribes in order to hand over the funds. Compared to him, even the ex-mayor of Tomsk Nikolai Nikolaychuk, who resigned early, looks lucky,” political scientist Ilya Grashchenkov commented on Klein’s arrest.
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