Gosstroynadzor claims that the Wildberries warehouse that burned down in St. Petersburg was operating illegally

The burned Wildberries warehouse in St. Petersburg was not officially put into operation. this to 78.ru. reported Vyacheslav Zakharov, acting head of the regional department of Gosstroynadzor,

According to him, in 2022 the building was given a certificate of compliance, but no one carried out further certification. “There was no application for commissioning. Their conclusion of compliance was issued in 2022, and then the developer himself [sends the application]. In general, they should not have worked with such papers without permission,” Zakharov explained.

Wildberries denied the information that the warehouse did not have a document of compliance. In turn, BFM, citing lawyers, notes that the conclusion of compliance does not mean that the facility will automatically be put into operation.

According to a preliminary version, the cause of the fire at the Wildberries warehouse in St. Petersburg was an electrical wiring fault. this The operational services reported to TASS. The agency's source also claims that the fire alarm in the warehouse was turned off. According to another version, the building was set on fire, RBC writes , citing a source close to the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

A major fire at the Wildberries warehouse in Shushary began on the morning of January 13. It was assigned the highest level of difficulty. The fire was localized over an area of ​​70 thousand square meters. No casualties were officially reported.

Almost nine percent of all Wildberries orders were shipped from the burned warehouse in St. Petersburg. This figure was named by Anton Bestugin, co-founder of the TOGO group of e-commerce companies. The All-Russian Union of Insurers believes that the amount of damage could exceed ten billion rubles.

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