A Rostov official has been arrested for corruption. A journalist who criticized him received death threats.
Chapter Proletarsky District of Rostov Region Valery Gornich арестовали for two months on criminal charges of abuse of office.
According to investigators, Gornich ordered A subordinate of the district civil defense and emergency management director entered into an agreement with a fellow entrepreneur and signed the documents without verification. This allowed the entrepreneur to receive over 2,5 million rubles from the local budget.
Earlier, NeMoskva wrote that a journalist from Proletarsk Leonid Zaplatkin received Several death threats followed a story critical of the governor. A journalist appealed to the acting governor of the Rostov region to initiate a "personnel purge" of the head of the Proletarsky district, Valery Gornich, "who is psychologically exhausted and needs to retire." Some time later, unknown people set on fire Zaplatkin's car - the arsonists were never found.