“The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin, instructed the head of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra Mokshin M.V.

promptly submit a report on the investigative actions carried out within the framework of the criminal case under investigation into the death of eight people and the hospitalization of seven residents of the Kondinsky district (part 3 of article 238 of the Criminal Code), ”the statement on the website of the Investigative Committee of Russia says.

At present, the investigation has seized alcohol-containing products and ordered a number of chemical examinations.

Earlier it became known that employees of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug opened a criminal case on the death of eight people from poisoning with surrogate alcohol.