Tomsk Region investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee have finished investigating a criminal case against former mayor of the city of Tomsk charged with a crime under part 2 of article 286 of the RF Penal Code (abuse of power by head of local government).
Investigators have revealed that the accused while being mayor of Tomsk acted deliberately supporting commercial interests of a company. In the period between May and June 2011, he made a single-handed decision to conduct additional repairs in Moskovsky Trakt in Tomsk aware that the city had no money for that. Nevertheless, he assured the company managers that the work will be paid for from the city budget. In 2011, the said repairs were carried out while there was no money to pay for them and violating the order set by the law (without placing orders for bidding for the right to conclude a contract, without concluding an additional contract on the work, without requirements specification, without local estimates, without agreement the documents and without proper control by the city economy department of Tomsk administration and City Improvement over the work).
In 2013, management of the company that carried out the work, on the offer of the accused appealed to a commercial court to exact the debt of over 36 million rubles and produced documents forged following the order of the accused. Based on those documents the Tomsk Region commercial court ruled to satisfy the plaintiff’s claim and the said sum was transferred to the account of the company from the Tomsk city budget. As a result of actions of the accused the city of Tomsk suffered damage of over 36 million rubles.
The investigators have gathered enough evidence so the criminal case with the approved indictment will soon be sent to court to be tried on the merits.
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