In the Irkutsk region, a rally was held in support of the detained mayor

In the city of Tayset, the Irkutsk region, a rally was held in support of the mayor of Taishet district Alexander Velichko, detained in the fraud case. About three hundred people came to the protest. Local communists organized a rally. Participants in the protest demanded to free the mayor from custody.

Velichko was arrested in early February. According to investigators, in 2013, when he was not yet the mayor (elected in the fall of 2016), Velichko illegally issued the ownership of artesian wells. Prior to this, the administration of the Taishet district provided land plots for drilling wells for leasing a commercial organization, although they were already equipped with the city of the city at the expense of budget money, the Irkutsk media reported .

Velichko threatens up to 6 years in prison. Some residents of Taishet call this matter a political order. Under the appeal to the President of Russia and the governor of the Irkutsk region, more than six thousand people signed.