"Bulgaria" was torn away from the ground

Specialists tore the stern and nasal parts of the Bulgaria ship from the soil. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the official representative of the operational headquarters for lifting the vessel Timur Hikmatov. He specified that the ship was torn from the ground by 6 meters.

On the eve of work on the site of the joint venture, they were suspended due to strong winds and waves. On Thursday evening, experts opened the fourth, last of the "towels" under the ship.

After the ship is lifted, experts will seal and start pumping water. When the ship will be finally raised, he will be sent to the dock, where the investigation team is already waiting for him. The presence of the bodies of the dead on the ship is still not excluded.

Meanwhile, as Kommersant writes, the transport police launched a criminal case against officials of the owner of the Kama River Shipping Company. The reason for its excitement was that the state, which has 32 percent of the shipping shares, did not receive dividends from leasing vessels. According to the newspaper, members of the board of directors of the KRP, representing the interests of the state, were not notified of the upcoming transaction to lease Bulgaria.

The Kama River Shipping Company, which belonged to the Bulgaria, was registered in 1993. 53 percent of the shares belongs to the chairman of the board of directors of OJSC Mikhail Antonov through Antonov Group - FZE, registered in the UAE. 32.13 percent of the authorized capital belongs to the state. The value of net assets is estimated at 55.36 million rubles. Board of accounts - 265.4 million rubles.

The lease agreement was concluded in April. According to the security forces, later the ship did not appear in the reporting of the shipping company. According to them, a few days after the disaster, the decision of the Board of Directors, approved by Bulgaria for rent, was allegedly signed retroactively.

The Bulgaria biculouquity diesel electrical circuit, built in 1955 in Czechoslovakia, sank on July 10 during a thunderstorm in the Kuibyshevsky reservoir in the Tatarstan three kilometers from the coast. A tourist ship followed from the city of Bolgar to Kazan. There were 208 people on the ship. According to the latest data, 114 people were killed, 79 were rescued, fate 15 is unknown.