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The court arrested the mayor of Berdsk in the case of a bribe
The judge of the Berdsky City Court of the Novosibirsk Region Tatyana Vasyukhnevich arrested the mayor of the city of the Communist Ilya Potapova until June 30 on charges of bribery. This was reported by the site "Courier. medo.berdsk". Thus, Vasyukhnevich supported the assistant prosecutor Anna Belova, who stated that when choosing a different preventive measure, Potapov could hide from the investigation. Meanwhile, according to RAPSI, the wife of the official Oksana Potapova requested the release of the accused on bail of 500 thousand rubles.
Belova noticed that although the mayor was not held before liable for such crimes, complaints of extortion on his part were repeatedly received to the city police department. Potapov himself did not plead guilty, but did not refute.
The mayor of Berdsk was detained the day before on suspicion of receiving a bribe of 3 million rubles. Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (receiving a bribe on an especially large scale), the official threatens up to 15 years in a colony and a fine of a 70-fold sum of a bribe.
It is claimed that the businessman and deputy of the regional legislative of Unitedos Alexander Ilyushchenko proposed a bribe by Potapov. For this, Potapov was supposed to allocate a land plot for construction in an elite zone on the shores of the Berd Gulf of the Novosibirsk reservoir. The transfer of money took place on the Remix ship belonging to Ilyushchenko. Immediately after that, the investigators detained Potapov. At home, the official and the city hall took searches.
Familiar mayors definitely stated that what happened to him was a "pure stand of the set -in."
Potapov is a member of the Communist Party. Before the election of the head of the city, he worked as a programmer of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He occupied the mayor, having won in the spring of 2011 in the second round by Unitedor’s Vladimir Shtop.
The RKSM unequivocally supported Potapov, explaining his detention by pressure on the communist mayor. "Neither the inhabitants of Berdsk, nor the mayor should become victims of the political games of the regional authorities and interested entrepreneurs," the Komsomol members said.
Later, the regional branch of the Communist Party made an official statement in which the criminal case of the mayor of Berdsk called the provocation of "United Russia". According to the Communists, the Bratsky Scenario is being implemented in Berdsk. In February 2011, the Communist Alexander Serov, the mayor of Bratsk in the Irkutsk region, was also arrested for a bribe. The Novosibirsk branch of the Communist Party noted that it was pointless to give Potapov a bribe, since the issue of allocation of land plots, allegedly interested in Unicorn Ilyushchenko, had actually undergone public discussion and construction. The Communists also recalled that from the moment of election to the detention, the mayor of Berdsk was pressed from the regional authorities. In particular, he was blackmailed through the media and was forced to resign, and also threatened to introduce external management in the city.
At the May Day demonstration, the communists of Berdsk demanded to stop the persecution of the head of the city. They chanted "Freedom Potapov!" And "Hands off our mayor!".