Pskov: The trial of the former vice-governor Kuznetsov began

In Pskov on September 16, the process began over the former vice-governor Alexander Kuznetsov. At the first meeting, the prosecutor announced the charge. According to investigators, in 2013, Kuznetsov received a bribe from the West-Stroy company so that it would win in the auction for the construction of the medical building of the Strug-Krasnensky District Hospital, the correspondent of the North. Reali reports.

The prosecution believes that the West-Stroy reduced the cost of a residential building in an elite district of the city, which was acquired by the wife of Kuznetsov. She contributed 5 million rubles and had to pay another 1 million 350 thousand rubles. According to investigators, Alexander Kuznetsov suggested that the head of the West-Stroy Evgeny Obnev not demand the rest and in return promised the company's assistance.

In 2013, West-Stroy participated in a tender for the construction of the therapeutic building of the Strugo-Krasnensky hospital. Alexander Kuznetsov asked his subordinates to reject the applications of several participants in the competition. The inconsistencies in their documentation at the request of Kuznetsov were searched for by the employees of the West-Stroy themselves, the charges say.

When other participants in the auction-Egle and Voy-Stroy-appealed the actions of the auction commission in the antimonopoly service, Alexander Kuznetsov called the head of Egle and demanded to withdraw a complaint. The investigation believes that Kuznetsov called the chairman of the housing and communal services committee and construction Dmitry Nastrov and asked him to convince the leadership of the "you-building" to withdraw a complaint to the OFAS.

The West-Stroy company won the competition, the cost of the contract is 40 million 589 thousand rubles.

Alexander Kuznetsov, after the announcement of the prosecution, refused to comment on him. He stated that he would testify only after the interrogation of witnesses from both sides.

Judge Galina Belik said that the process over Kuznetsov will last several weeks.

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Alexander Kuznetsov was detained on December 14, 2018. On December 15, he was charged with receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. In Kuznetsov’s office, the security forces seized the ID card issued by the Estonian authorities, it is a personality certificate and confirms the right to live in this country. Kuznetsov has been in the isolator since December 14, 2018.