The former vice-governor Oleg Yezhov was detained in Primorye

The former vice-governor of the Primorsky Territory Oleg Yezhov, who oversaw the issues of urban planning, was detained as part of a criminal case, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the regional law enforcement agencies. In the regional SU SKR confirmed information about the detention.

The criminal case was instituted on the fact of abuse of authority by officials of the Department of Urban Planning of the Primorsky Territory and the administration of the Primorsky Territory in the implementation of payment of construction and installation works under the state contract (part 3 of article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the website of the Investigative Committee was indicated.

According to investigators, in March 2013, the Department of Urban Planning of the Primorsky Territory and the commercial organization entered into a contract for construction and installation work on fire protection. The work on the specified state contract was not fully completed, but from March to December 2013, Yezhov, knowing about this, signed the acts on the acceptance of the work performed and instructed to pay more than 24.5 million rubles, which entailed the damage to the budget of the Primorsky Territory for this amount.

In the apartment and at the place of the former work of the suspect, searches were carried out, documentation was seized. Currently, the issue of the election of a preventive measure against Yezhov is being decided, in the near future he will be charged.

A number of local media are associated with Yezhov’s detention with the criminal case of the director of the state -owned enterprise "Unified Directorate for the construction of facilities in the Primorsky Territory" Igor Sologub, who is suspected of receiving a bribe on the construction of a microdistrict for the military in Vladivostok, RIA Novosti notes.

According to investigators, on April 14, 2016, Sologub illegally received two million rubles - part from a pre -agreed amount of nine million.

From the post of vice-governor Yezhov, which he occupied since 2014, was dismissed a few days ago upon request for dismissal of his own free will, reminds Kommersant . Until 2014, he headed the regional department of urban planning.