The head of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Komi was detained in Moscow

In Moscow, the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Republic of Komi, General Alexander Protopopov, was detained. As Interfax reports , referring to the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Vladimir Markin, the general was detained on suspicion of embezzlement of concrete coverage of a 50-kilometer section of the road. "At present, with the operational support of the FSB officers, Alexander Protopopov was detained in Moscow, searches are being conducted at the place of his residence and his relatives," Markin said.

Protopopov is suspected of embezzlement of entrusted state property committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy, using their official position, on a particularly large scale. According to the investigation, from June 2014 to August 2015, the defendants of the case, in violation of the law, agreed and removed more than 7 thousand reinforced concrete plates, which make up the road with a reinforced concrete coating with a total length of more than 50 kilometers in the village of the Vozhsky Udor district, which was in federal property. The damage caused is estimated at 6 million rubles.

On September 20, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested 15 defendants in the case of organizing a criminal fraudulent community in the Komi Republic, including the key accused, the head of the region Vyacheslav Gaiser. Also arrested by Gaiser Deputy Alexei Chernov, deputy chairman of the government of the republic Konstantin Romadanov, Igor Kovzel-chairman of the State Council of Komi, ex-senator from the republic Evgeny Samoilov and, as the investigation called them, “financiers-technologists” Anton Farshtein, V. Molyarov, D. Moskvin, A. Goldman, and Igor Kudinov, Pavel, Pavel Marushchak, Lev Libenzon, Natalia Motorina, M. Khruzin.

As part of the investigation, entrepreneur Alexander Zarubin was arrested in absentia in absentia. According to the investigation, he was also part of the organizers of the community.