“In the Penza region, at the request of the prosecutor’s office, the antimonopoly body is checking the fact of collusion during tenders for the repair of the street and road network in the amount of about 400 million rubles,” the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement.

On March 21, the Investigative Committee announced the arrest of the Governor of the Penza Region, Ivan Belozertsev, on suspicion of corruption crimes.