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The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia requests a number of reports on information published in mass media

Mass media reported that a resident of Shadrinsky District of Kurgan Region systematically beat children in her care. The Kurgan Regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia launched a probe into this matter under Paragraphs A, D of Part 2 of Article 117 of the Criminal Code of Russia.

Moreover, federal TV channels aired footage of an Irkutsk resident standing on the edge of a balcony, threatening to jump out along with his 3-year-old child. The boy was saved after long negotiations. The Irkutsk Regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia launched a probe into the man under Part 1 of Article 30, Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of Russia, the perpetrator was detained, the investigative bodies motion the court to place him into custody.

Also, mass media reported about a situation in Murmansk center for social assistance for the elderly and sick people, which failed to pass fire safety inspection of the competent authorities, while bedridden patients were constantly in the center. The Murmansk Regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia organized a procedural assessment of this matter.

The Kurgan Regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia organized an assessment upon publication of materials about children's poisoning in a sanatorium.

A pre-investigative probe was also organized in the Republic of Bashkortostan after mass media published information of coronavirus infection discovered in four minors vacationing in a children's health camp.

Alexander Bastrykin put all the launched probes and procedural assessments under supervision of the Central Office of the Committee and instructed the directions of the territorial investigative departments to report on all the above mentioned facts.

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