“We confirm the fact of death. Upon the fact of his death, the investigating authorities of the regional investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia organized a procedural audit, in the framework of which the circumstances of his death will be established, ”said Elena Karsna, senior assistant to the head of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

According to the agency, on October 16, Chulkov was detained on suspicion of fraud, after which the court placed the official under house arrest.

He took the post of deputy head of the regional administration in 2008.

In mid-October, it became known about the death of Mayor Abakan Nikolai Bulakin in an accident in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.