“The Minister of Tourism and Health Resorts of the Stavropol Territory was detained by the preliminary investigation authorities to further resolve the issue of choosing a measure of restraint for him,” the regional prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
In 2021, the ministry signed a state contract to host a fireworks festival.
The subject was the services provided to the department in 2020.
When forming the cost of the contract in 2021, commercial offers were falsified, and the total amount turned out to be unreasonably overestimated by 10 times.
The damage to the budget of Stavropol amounted to more than 25.1 million rubles.
Earlier, the Soviet District Court found Tomsk Mayor Ivan Klein guilty of abuse of office and illegal business.
The court sentenced him to two years in prison.