
In the Leningrad Region, a criminal case was opened against the municipal deputy from the United Russia party Evgeny Budaev and his comrade named Shamil. They are suspected of attempting to circle railway rails. This was reported by the North-Western Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Transport.
According to the investigation, 40-year-old Budaev and 35-year-old Shamil sawed and tried to load the rail into the car, which they found in a forest belt on the stage of the Lebyazhye-Krasnoflotsk railway stations in the Lomonosovsky district of the Leningrad region. Russian Railways estimated the value of the stolen at 15 thousand rubles.