The court arrested the deputy head of Podolsk in the case of an accident in the boiler room, due to which thousands of city residents were left without heating

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested the deputy head of the administration of Podolsk near Moscow, Roman Ryazantsev, in the case of an accident in a boiler room, due to which thousands of city residents were left without heat during the frost.

According to the press service of the Moscow courts, Ryazantsev was accused of exceeding official powers causing grave consequences (clause “c”, part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code). According to the investigation , the official, knowing about the presence of defects in the equipment, signed an act of checking readiness for the heating season and issued a certificate of readiness, which led to an accident on the heating main.

The court also arrested Alexander Chikov, the head of the boiler room at the Klimovsky Specialized Cartridge Plant where the accident occurred. He was accused of performing services that do not meet safety requirements (clause “a”, part 2, article 238 of the Criminal Code). He does not admit guilt, writes Kommersant.

According to the publication, the general director of the cartridge plant, Igor Kushnikov , a colonel who was accused of leading the Golyanovskaya organized crime group in the 1990s, is also being charged in the case of providing services that do not meet security requirements.

• The accident at the boiler house in Podolsk occurred on January 4. Because of it, 176 apartment buildings, in which more than 20 thousand people live, were left without heating for several days. A local emergency regime has been introduced in Podolsk. without heating . remained By the morning of January 10 , residents of 37 affected houses
• The authorities of the Moscow region blamed the owners of the boiler room for the incident. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the nationalization of the Klimovsky cartridge plant.
• According to the governor of the Moscow region, in order to stabilize the situation with heat supply in Podolsk, it is necessary to invest “billions of rubles” in the housing and communal services sector of the city. Moreover, two weeks before the accident, Podolsk received the “Breakthrough of the Year” award for “effective resource management” and “financial stability.”