"The enemy has learned of rotten pipes." The former general director of the Rostov water utility was sentenced to eighteen months in prison for disclosing state secrets.

Your time Evgeny Yurkin will serve in a penal colony. 

According to investigators, Evgeny Yurkin posted Documents containing information about the location of the city's critical infrastructure, a state secret, were sent by unclassified mail to the Rostov Region Ministry of Housing and Public Utilities. As a result, the classified information was leaked to a third party.

Rostov residents are racking their brains on social media to figure out what top-secret information the hapless CEO divulged:

"He confessed where all the money allocated to the water utility was going. He couldn't bear the weight of it any longer." 

"He apparently told me where they had driven plugs into the pipes and written them off as clamps." 

"The enemies became aware of the rotten pipes."

NotMoscow Wrote that Yurkin is not the first head of Rostovvodokanal to be investigated and tried. In 2022, a court in Rostov found the general director of Rostovvodokanal Dmitry Kubrak guilty of fraud, he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Against Mikhail Porksheev, who held the position before Kubrak, was charged with abuse of power and causing damage to the company, but the case ended with a large fine.