Russia's Anti-Monopoly Service may have accidentally confirmed some of an anti-corruption group's findings

Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service has removed any mention of an individual named “A.Yu. Chaika” from its records on the service's approval of the sale of the “East-Siberian Commercial-Industrial Company,” which produces salt. The original version of the agency's documents listed the company's contact person as someone named A.Yu. Chaika, leading to speculation that the individual in question is Artem Chaika, the son of Russia's attorney general, whom anti-corruption activists have accused of multiple shady and even illegal business practices.

An official from the Anti-monopoly Service told the newspaper Vedomosti that the person's name was published by mistake. “We accidentally released an individual's personal data, and now we've removed that information,” the official said.

Artem Chaika is one of the main figures addressed in Alexey Navalny's investigative documentary, where the attorney general's son is accused of being involved in the illegal seizure of a shipping company in Irkutsk. According to Navalny's anti-corruption foundation, Artem Chaika also owns a salt mine and several other assets.