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Primorye: ex-candidate for governors Andrei Ishchenko arrested
In the Primorsky Territory, the court arrested an ex-candidate for a month to Governors from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Andrei Ishchenko, the press service of the regional investigative committee said . He is suspected of fraud.
According to the investigation, Ishchenko as the founder of the Aurora-Stroy construction company from December 2016 to June 2021 stole more than 105 million rubles from 187 participants in the shared construction of an apartment building on Safonov Street in Vladivostok.
Ishchenko was detained on April 4. He was charged under the article “Fraud, that is, the theft of someone else's property by deception, committed on an especially large scale or entailed the deprivation of a citizen’s right to a dwelling”.
- In 2018, Andrei Ishchenko ran for the post of governor of the Primorsky Territory from the Communist Party. He lost to a candidate from United Russia, the current governor Andrei Tarasenko is 1.5% of the vote, despite the fact that he was a leader after the counting of 97% of the protocols.
- After summing up the elections, candidates accused each other for violations. The election of the Primorsky Territory annulled the election results. Ishchenko was not allowed to re -election; Oleg Kozhemyako defeated them another unicorn.
- In May 2021, Ishchenko said on his Instagram that the current head of the region, Oleg Kozhemyako, allegedly offered him two million dollars for non -participation in the elections of the governor of the region.
- Press Secretary Kozhemyako Maxim Rudenchik commentary on the statement of the statement Ishchenko brought to the discussion of his adequacy. “Ishchenko’s statement is essentially impossible. It is more like a person’s nonsense, whose adequacy is very doubt,” said Rudenchika RIA Novosti.