The expert accused in the “poppy case” was fired from his job

The head of the chemical-analytical laboratory of the Research Institute of Agriculture of the Penza Region, Olga Zelenina, accused of aiding a criminal community and exceeding her official powers in connection with an examination of the inevitable content of narcotic substances in a food poppy, was fired after the removal of her travel ban from Moscow. about this on July 5. writes Penza-Vzglyad

Zelenina was released from travel ban and was able to return to work after the court remanded the decision in December 2015 to return the case to the prosecutor's office. As she told the Penza-Vzglyad online publication, after returning from a six-month paid vacation, she worked in her previous position for two days, after which she was informed of her dismissal, which was explained by a reduction in staff and the abolition of the chemical analytical laboratory. “In two months provided by law, I will be unemployed,” Zelenina said in a conversation with the publication. In her opinion, the structure of the institute was changed solely in order to reduce her position. When exactly the decision to dismiss comes into force, the note is not reported.

In June, Zelenina's defense for the third time demanded that the case be returned to the prosecutor's office.