| The governor of Kamchatka must now listen to the investigator Now the governor of the Kamchatka region, Mikhail Mashkovtsev, knows exactly what the claims against him by law enforcement agencies are. On Tuesday, he was officially questioned by an investigator from the regional prosecutor's office as a suspect of negligence. However, this event can only be called an interrogation, since the head of the regional administration refused to answer questions without his lawyer.
A criminal case was initiated against Mikhail Mashkovtsev and his deputy for the fuel and energy complex, Vladislav Skvortsov, under the first part of Article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for a maximum penalty of three months' arrest. High-ranking officials are accused of misuse of funds allocated from the federal budget for northern deliveries. Last year, the heads of the administrations of the Milkovsky and Bolsheretsky districts of the peninsula, with the approval of the governor and his deputy for the fuel and energy complex, lent the Elizovsky district coal purchased with funds allocated from the federal budget to supply the regions of the Far North. It is this episode that the prosecutor’s office considers to be contrary to the law.
Now Mikhail Mashkovtsev is obliged to appear at the prosecutor's office at the first request of the investigation, but he did not sign a written undertaking not to leave. Immediately after the interrogation, the governor flew to Moscow for a meeting of the State Council. At the same time, Vladislav Skvortsov, who visited the investigator’s office the day before, is generally prohibited from leaving the peninsula.
On Tuesday it also became known that as part of the investigation on Monday, documents were seized from the Kamchatoblavtotrans and Kamchatskenergo enterprises, from the Region-Kontrakt company and from the fuel and energy complex committee of the regional administration. All these structures were involved in last year's "coal castling". Now the prosecutor's office is examining the papers. At the same time, regional prosecutor Alexander Voitovich does not rule out that district leaders who carried out the allegedly illegal order of the regional authorities may also be held accountable.
The initiation of a scandalous criminal case strangely followed immediately after the harsh statements of the Russian Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Konstantin Pulikovsky, who at the end of last week called on Mikhail Mashkovtsev and the mayor of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Yuri Golenishchev to equally share the blame for the critical state of Kamchatka’s housing and communal services. As a result, the prosecutor's office, which only a week and a half ago promised the head of the region full legal support for the introduction of direct gubernatorial control in the regional center, immediately took on him himself.
Meanwhile, Mikhail Mashkovtsev himself continues to insist that the new criminal case is related to his activities in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. “If I leave the Communist Party, Kamchatka will no longer be a target of criticism from federal officials,” says the head of the regional administration. Dmitry CHERNOV, Vladivostok |
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