In St. Petersburg “For a Special contribution to the development of the city”, the former head of the improvement committee was awarded

The St. Petersburg parliament awarded the honorary sign “For a special contribution to the development of St. Petersburg in 2020” the former head of the Viktor Shabnov improvement committee, dismissed “due to the loss of confidence”. A copy of the decision on his Facebook page was published by Boris Vishnevsky.

Shabnov headed the committee twice: from 2010 to 2011 and from 2015 to 2018. In April 2018, he was fired due to a violation of the law on corruption with the wording "due to the loss of trust." Information about this was then added to the appropriate register .

The politician Boris Gryzlov, the head of the department of the Russian Guard in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, Mikhail Sobolev and the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg, Roman Plugin, who moved to the city 1.5 years ago were also included in the list of awarded. Vishnevsky noted that five deputies voted against.

Earlier, “Paper” published a detailed text on how Smolny tried to limit the right of deputies to distribute the budget.