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"It is impossible to clean karma." Khinshtein announced the liquidation of the development corporation of the Kursk region after theft on the construction of defense structures
Responsible for the construction of fortifications on the border with Ukraine “Corporation of the Kursk Region” (KRO), with which corruption scandals were associated, will be eliminated, since “it will be almost impossible to clean it,” said the acting head of the region Alexander Khinshtein at a government meeting.
According to him, the corporation took on “a number of functions that are not characteristic of itself”:
“Pies bakes a cake, and the boots are coating the boots. And the development corporation is involved in investors .... ”, the official said.
He added, now the powers of KRO will be transferred to the new structure.
The development corporation of the Kursk region was created in 2012 by order of the Governor to strengthen the investment infrastructure of the region. In 2022, Krko received more than 3 billion rubles from the budget for the construction of fortifications on the border with Ukraine.
In December 2024, the former CEO of Corporation Vladimir Lukin was detained in the waste of more than 173 million rubles. Three of his deputies were also under arrest.
In April 2025, the ex-governor of the Kursk region Alexei Smirnov and the former vice-governor Alexei Dedov was arrested in a criminal case.
The media wrote that another former head of the region - Roman Starovoit - could also become a defendant in cases of theft. In early July, he committed suicide , immediately after he was dismissed from the post of head of the Ministry of Transport.