Ural ex-police officer put on trial after secret burial scandal. In February 2023, in the village of Shalya, workers digging a grave in a local cemetery came across an illegal burial with three bodies.
The called police limited themselves to recording the gravediggers’ explanations and asked to bury the remains. The next day the coffin with the pensioner’s body was “officially’ placed in the same grave. The general public became aware of what happened only recently from Shali ex-precinct officer Yuri Zolotko.