"He was high on cocaine": Details emerge about the arrest of the Novosibirsk Region vice-governor.

How to сообщает pro-government Telegram channel "Mash", 58-year-old Yuri Petukhov was detained in Moscow with drugs, this happened a few days ago.

“At the time of his arrest, he was preliminarily high on cocaine,” the publication clarifies. — During a search, several packages containing illegal substances were found on him. He admitted his guilt and is cooperating with the investigation."

According to Baza, synthetic drugs found during a search of his hotel room.

First reports of the arrest of a high-ranking official появились June 4. The next day, references to him disappeared from the regional government website, and three days later, the Novosibirsk governor Andrey Travnikov said about his dismissal, without explanation.

The detained vice-governor was one of the most influential officials Novosibirsk regionFor over a decade, he oversaw domestic policy, government work, and personnel appointments, and was also considered one of the government's chief negotiators—his position entailed communication with all key political and business players (usually the same people). However, no one seems to have noticed his disappearance. 

“Even recent comrades and protégés pretend that Petukhov never existed, as if in the novel The Master and Margarita, where people completely loyal to the state could simply disappear,” notes publication "Siberian Express". — This is returning Novosibirsk bureaucracy to the practices of 90 years ago, when officials could show up for a meeting in the morning and find that a senior executive was, for some reason, absent and would not be returning."

Photo: Novosibirsk Oblast Government