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Following a check into media reports on violation of rights of citizens who have to live in a house unfit for living in the settlement of Lopandino, Komarichi District, the Bryansk Region Office of the Investigative Committee has launched an investigation in negligence under Part 1 of Article 293 of the RF Criminal Code.

Earlier, a federal TV channel showed a story about two elderly women from Bryansk Region: a 79-year-old woman, an honored labor veteran, and a 76-year-old woman who have been living in houses unfit for living for a long time – in a not-heated dilapidated former horse stables. The local administration, and namely the head of the settlement, whom the 79-year-old woman asked to resettle her, offered the woman to move into “new housing” – ruined building of a rural school. The Bryansk Region Office of the Investigative Committee started a check into the incident, which Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin ordered be taken under control by the Committee’s Central Office.

According to investigators, the reason for the crime was criminal omission of the local government. After an agricultural enterprise, the owner of the said house, had gone bankrupt, the housing was not taken into municipal property, recognized as a dangerous structure or its tenants resettled for a long time, despite complaints of the tenants.

The investigators are going to look into situation and classify the omission of the officials. The investigation continues.