A new criminal case was opened against the head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow Region, Alexander Shestun.

The head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, who was arrested on suspicion of abuse of power, was charged with a new criminal case under articles on illegal entrepreneurial activity, complicity in fraud on an especially large scale and the legalization of stolen funds. about this Writes "Kommersant".

Yulia, the wife of the head of the district, confirmed this information to Interfax. The Investigative Committee also opened a second criminal case based on the material of the FSB. Shestun's lawyers believe that the addition of articles was expected, since the case of the illegal transfer of four land plots to Center LLC, estimated at 62 million rubles, turned out to be "weak" and the arrest had to be "justified" in some way, Kommersant reports.

According to investigators, the official was engaged in entrepreneurship, bought and resold plots of land. On this, Shestun and his accomplices could receive about 150 million, according to the investigation.

In addition, on August 27, Alexander Shestun was hospitalized from the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. His health deteriorated due to a hunger strike, TASS writes with reference to Yulia Shestun. The man went on a hunger strike when the Basmanny District Court of Moscow extended his arrest until December 15.

• Prior to his arrest, the head of the Serpukhov district announced threats of a criminal case because of the approval of a rally against garbage dumps. He said that he was threatened by the governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov.
• At the end of May, were two deputies of Alexander Shestun searched. The interlocutor of Radio Liberty said that during the search one of them was told that she would “sit together with Shestun in the same cell.”
• to Shestun On June 13, they came with a search, and then detained him in the case of abuse of power. His press secretary reported that about 40 masked people with machine guns entered Shestun's house, where there were minor children. Two days after the arrest, the Basmanny District Court arrested Shestun until 13 August.
• At a meeting to appeal against the arrest, the man spoke about the threats from the FSB officer Ivan Tkachev and the head of the presidential department for domestic policy Andrei Yarin. “If you go to the polls, we will imprison you; if you fight against landfills, we will imprison you,” conveyed the essence of the threats. Shestun