“The second department for the investigation of especially important cases of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Kirov region, according to the materials of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Kirov region, criminal cases have been opened against the former head of the city of Kirov Vladimir ... (large-scale fraud) ... ( organization of monetary waste), ”the press release of the regional headquarters of the UK says.
According to investigators, in 2007 - 2015, Bykov and the head of the Kirov Hunting and Fishing Equipment Factory LLC, Leonid Yafarkin, by prior conspiracy illegally acquired the right to a land plot in Kirov, while unreasonably reducing its cadastral value from 51 million rubles to 1.8 million rubles.
Then, in 2014, Bykov ensured that the plant received permission to build a sports complex, and in 2015 he organized the conclusion between the plant and the Kirov city administration of a contract for the sale of part of the land at a price of more than 338 thousand rubles. Later, the received plot was sold in parts for more than 126 million rubles with its real market value of at least 165 million rubles.
In addition, in 2010 - 2018, Bykov, using his official position, unlawfully appropriated money from the City of Kirov and OOO Electronic Travel Card in the amount of at least 34 million rubles.
At the end of November 2019, Bykov was detained as part of a criminal case on a bribe on an especially large scale.
He was later sent under house arrest.