It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the regional branch of the UK.

“According to the investigation, the head of the Terbunsky district, having no authority to dispose of minerals and issue permits for their extraction, allowed the entrepreneur to extract and remove almost 14 thousand tons of sand from the quarry from April to June 2019,” the statement says.

In connection with this fact, he was charged under paragraph "c" of part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code of Russia ("abuse of power with serious consequences").

As the agency points out, a preventive measure in the form of a recognizance not to leave was chosen with respect to Ivanov.

Earlier, the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg sent under house arrest the first deputy head of the Investigative Department of the IC of Russia in the Sverdlovsk Region, Mikhail Busylko, who is suspected of receiving a bribe.

On November 27, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Perm sentenced Edgar Sargsyan, former deputy head of the investigative department of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Perm Territory, to seven years in prison for receiving a bribe.