“Currently, as part of the criminal investigation, investigators have questioned 185 witnesses and eyewitnesses of the incident, conducted searches at the offices of the gold mining cooperative, carried out seven inspections of the scene, including using a quadrocopter and a helicopter, 29 people were recognized as victims,” the ministry said in a statement. .
Earlier, Andrei Eganov, the head of the Sisim LLC gold mining artillery section, accused of a case of loss of life when breaking dams in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, pleaded guilty to violating safety rules during the work.
The state of emergency occurred on October 19 in the Kuragin region on the Ceiba River. According to recent reports, 15 people were killed, five were missing.