The Department for Combating Economic Crimes of the Yekaterinburg Internal Affairs Directorate opened a criminal case against the Chairman of the Regional Federation of Trade Unions, Yuri Ilyin. The region's main trade union leader is accused of abuse of power.
According to the police, in January 2001 he sold a government apartment owned by the federation to an outsider. The damage caused by the sale to the regional trade union movement amounted to 240 thousand rubles. The apartment that became the subject of the proceedings was built with funds from a travel company established at one time by the Federation of Trade Unions as a commercial structure. Therefore, the housing, the construction of which was financed by the travel agency, officially became the property of the trade unions. At first, one of the travel agency employees wanted to buy the ill-fated apartment; the issue was discussed at a meeting of the presidium and was resolved positively. But in the end, the house was sold to a stranger. And the Department of Internal Affairs is now finding out how the proceeds for the apartment were used.