In Irkutsk, in the fraud case, a deputy of the regional parliament from the Communist Party Andrei Levchenko, the son of the former governor of the region Sergey Levchenko, was detained. This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Committee.
The department claims that Levchenko was associated with the director of Zvezda, who was arrested in November 2019, Oleg Hamulyak, who, according to investigators, overestimated 185 million rubles (up to 319.6 million) the cost of elevators from abroad for the overhaul of houses in Irkutsk (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code).
The investigator in the Basmann District Court of Moscow then explained the need to arrest Hamulik by the fact that he was “connected by a close and trusted connection” with Sergey Levchenko and his son Andrei, “who actually carries out the operational leadership of Zvezda LLC. On December 12, 2019, on the day of the resignation of Levchenko from the post of governor, Khamulyak was transferred under house arrest.
SK on September 28, in addition to the house and work of Andrei Levchenko, also conducted searches in the house of Sergei Levchenko. The department was shut on the video from the searches of the face of all but the former governor, Taiga.info notes . Andrei Levchenko, according to Interfax, is transferred to Moscow.
Since the return of direct elections of the heads of regions, Sergey Levchenko has become the first governor from the parliamentary opposition, ahead of a representative of United Russia in 2015. In 2018, the Communist Party of the Communist Party, which he heads in the region, bypassed United Russia in the elections to the Irkutsk Regional Duma.
Sources of Vedomosti claimed that Sergey Levchenko could become a deputy of the State Duma, instead of the Vakhi Agayeva coronavirus who died in September.
In 2018, 32.9 million rubles were collected with Andrei Levchenko in the case of tax failure and delay in the salaries of Stolkonstrustry CJSC, which he was general director. The charges in the case were concluded in 2016. He became a deputy of the regional Legislative Assembly in 2018 on the party lists of the Communist Party.