Tomsk: Lawyers of the head of the city appealed arrest

The lawyers of the mayor of Tomsk Ivan Klein sent a complaint to the decision of the Kirovsky District Court of Tomsk on the arrest of an official accused of exceeding official powers.

According to lawyers in his telegram channel, a foreign passport was seized from Klein during the search, so he cannot leave the country. The mayor suffers from a serious chronic disease, so it cannot be in custody. From the moment of the crime of which the official was accused, three years have passed, interrogations of witnesses took place, so there was no reason to hide from the investigation in Klein. Moreover, earlier he was already interrogated in the case as a witness.

On November 18, the Kirovsky District Court of Tomsk, at the request of the investigation, suspended Ivan Klein from his position for the period of investigative actions, the RIA-Tomsk press servicereported . The duties of the head of Tomsk will be performed by Mikhail Ratner.

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• The owner of the Tomsk Beer, the mayor of Tomsk Ivan Klein was detained on November 13 during a selector meeting with his subordinates. FSB officers withdrew the head of the city from the administration building in handcuffs through the central entrance. The Investigative Committee said that Ivan Klein is suspected of abuse of authority. The Investigative Committee in the Tomsk Region has brought a criminal case on fraud on an employee of Tomsk Beer, which is owned by the arrested mayor Ivan Klein.
• Previously, the two previous mayors of Tomsk - Alexander Makarov and Nikolai Nikolaychuk were already convicted. Makarov was arrested in December 2006, four years later he was awarded 12 years in a maximum security colony under articles on abuse of official position, extortion and receiving a bribe. In June 2016, he was released ahead of schedule. In 2015, Nikolaychuk was sentenced to 4 years old under an article on negligence.
• The State Duma deputy from the Novosibirsk and Tomsk regions Vera Ganzya said that the detention and arrest of mayor of Tomsk Ivan Klein is a "classical political order."
• Tomsk brewery (since 1995, Tomsk Beer OJSC) has been producing beer and non -alcoholic products. According to the company, the family of mayor Tomsk, Klein, owns 90.85% of the company's shares, including Klein - 51.02% (shares are in the trust management of his wife, general director Galina Klein), Galina herself - 9.83%; Another 10% belong to their daughters Maria, Natalia and Svetlana.