Deputy Roman Koval was detained in St. Petersburg

FSB operatives detained a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from United Russia Roman Koval. About this writes "Fontanka" with reference to sources.

According to the publication, the detention is connected with the case of a large -scale bribe. Fontanka writes that, according to investigators, the deputy was transferred to the Audi Q7 car and several million rubles for the distribution of a “deputy amendment” to the city budget. "Rotonda" notes that Koval and his wife have never declared the cars in the property.

When distributing a “deputy amendment,” deputies of Zaks can only indicate in which direction the money will go, writes Rotonda. At the same time, according to the channel source, officials and deputies agree who exactly the funds allocated using the amendments will go.

Update from 19:25 . SK confirmed the detention and initiation of a criminal case on a bribe on an especially large scale ( part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code) against deputy Roman Koval. Also, in mediation in bribery ( part 4 of article 291.1 of the Criminal Code), his assistant Andrei Grishin is suspected.

According to the investigation, Koval from 2018 to 2020 received a bribe from the St. Petersburg entrepreneur in the form of a car and 15 million rubles for contributing to the allocation of budget funds by introducing and adopting amendments to the Law “On the Budget of St. Petersburg”. The investigation believes that the size of the bribe was 20 % of the amount of funds allocated to budget organizations.

SK writes that Koval and Grishin were detained in vigorous upon receipt of the next part of the bribe.

Roman Koval- Deputy Chairman of the Commission on Ecology and Nature Management, a member of the Commission on the Organization of State Power, Local Self-Government and Administrative-Territorial Station and a Member of the relevant Commission for Environmental Protection of the Population of St. Petersburg.

Earlier in St. Petersburg, the distribution of budget funds in the framework of the “deputy amendment” became the basis for the case against the ex-deputies from the United Russia Svetlana Nesterova. She was found guilty of receiving a bribe of 4.8 million rubles and sentenced to five years in the colony.

The formation of a “deputy amendment”, as Rotonda writes, is headed by the speaker of Zaksa and the leader of the St. Petersburg branch of United Russia Vyacheslav Makarov. Koval is called one of Makarov's close associates.