The Omsk City Hall Department of Property Relations was searches in the criminal case of abuse of authority, TASS said with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.
In the UK, information about searches in the city hall did not comment. The names of the officials suspected of the crime are not established, Interfax clarifies .
In 2016, the former director of the Omsk City Hall Department, Yuri Hamburg, received 5.5 years in a colony in the case of abuse of authority. He signed documents on the sale of land plots at the low cost, causing the budget for the damage by more than 400 million rubles. In 2017, he was released on parole.