The Investigative Committee will check the work of its Samara department after an article in Novaya Gazeta

After an article in Novaya Gazeta about the head of the Samara department of the Investigative Committee, Vitaly Gorstkin, the central office of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation sends a commission to the region to conduct a comprehensive audit of his activities, according to the department’s website.

“The facts stated by Novaya Gazeta on March 24 in the article “Shields of the Fatherland: Advertising and Security,” about the activities of the head of the ICR department for the Samara region, Vitaly Gorstkin, will be carefully verified,” the message says.

The central office commission will travel to the Samara region in the near future.

On March 24, the Novaya Gazeta website published an article“Shields of the Fatherland: Advertising and Power,” which states that over the past 5 years, the head of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Samara Region, General Vitaly Gorstkin and his wife acquired seven land plots and one house , two cottages, three apartments, Mercedes GL 350 and Mazda cars (there is also a Range Rover Sport, but it is registered to the general’s 60-year-old mother-in-law). Gorstkin’s wife, Yulia Budak, is the founder and director of a number of commercial structures in Samara, including Elegant LLC, which owns 137 trade pavilions at public transport stops, and Centrum LLC, a large Samara outdoor advertising operator that owns more than 50 billboards. Both pavilions and billboards, according to the newspaper, were installed in violation of the law.