The mayor of Yuzhno-Kurilsk arrested for abuse in the housing
Against the mayor of the South Kuril city district on the basis of materials of the FSB instituted criminal case, according to the website of the investigative Committee of Russia in the Sakhalin region.
According to investigators, the suspect, in the course of implementation of the municipal program for providing the population with housing concluded the municipal contract with the company Bigsun on the acquisition until 31 March 2016 104 apartments in four 26-apartment residential buildings.
The contract price amounted to more than 454 million rubles. Under its terms, the buyer transfers to the seller a prepayment of 30% of the contract price after completion of the initial phase of construction of residential houses, purchased apartments.
The suspect then unlawfully signed a supplementary agreement, which provides for the possibility of prepayment without fulfilling the conditions for the start of construction. In the future, the firm was illegally transferred budgetary funds — more than 136 million as an advance payment. The construction of houses has not been started.
The case is being investigated on signs of the crime provided by part 2 of article 286 of the criminal code (“Committing the head of the local government action is clearly beyond its powers and have entailed essential infringement of legally protected interests of society or the state”). The suspect is detained, the question on election of a preventive measure in the form of detention.