Bringing up the past: the property of the former governor of the Rostov region may be confiscated.

The Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit to seize movable and immovable property for state use. Vladimir Chub According to the law "On Monitoring the Compliance of Expenditures and Incomes," TASS reports. What exactly the Prosecutor General wants to confiscate and the amount is not specified.

There are 12 defendants in the lawsuit – businessmen and former politicians.

Vladimir Chub served as governor of the Rostov Region from 1991 to 2010. Yeltsin appointed him to lead the region shortly after the failed August coup. In 1996, he was elected governor in the first direct elections in the Rostov Region. His firm promise to prevent the construction of the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant, which was opposed by environmentalists and the public, played a role. However, the plant was launched in 2000, and the promised benefits for residents of the 30-kilometer zone were soon revoked.

After his resignation, Vladimir Chub became a senator in the Federation Council from Murmansk region, where he had never worked. The Don Parliament immediately passed the law "On guarantees for the Governor of the Rostov Region, who has ceased to exercise his powers, and his family members." He pay 80% of the current governor's salary.

Chub is now retired.