A case of abuse of power was opened against the mayor of Taganrog

A criminal case has been initiated against Taganrog Mayor Vladimir Prasolov and deputy head of the city’s housing and communal services department for financial and economic issues, Lyudmila Prishpetnaya, for abuse of power, the reports . press service of the Investigative Committee

According to investigators, Prasolov ordered to allocate 5.5 million rubles from the reserve fund of the Taganrog administration to pay a certain entrepreneur for allegedly performed work on cleaning and removing snow from the streets of the city during the emergency response in January 2014.

The report says that the person involved in the Prishpetnaya case subsequently, at the direction of the mayor, entered into a municipal contract with this individual entrepreneur and paid for the actually unfulfilled work.

In the Rostov region at the end of January 2014, it was snowing heavily for more than a day. Because of this, there were serious disruptions in traffic, and an emergency mode was introduced in the region.