This is stated on the website of the regional department.
“A criminal case has been opened on the grounds of a crime under Part 3 of Art. 216 of the Criminal Code of Russia (“violation of safety rules during work that entailed, by negligence, the death of two or more persons”), ”the statement says.
It is noted that at the scene of the incident, an investigative-operational group is currently working, which included experienced criminologists and investigators to investigate particularly important cases.
Earlier it became known that the number of victims of the dam breakthrough increased to 12.
The Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Uss, and the head of the regional head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Rechitsky, the regional prosecutor, Mikhail Savchin, flew to the place where the dam at the gold mine in the Kuraginsky district broke.
October 19 at 02:00 (Moscow time) in the vicinity of the village of Shchetinkino, Kuraginsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory on the Seiba River, the dam of the technological reservoir of the gold mining artel was destroyed.