The Investigative Committee of the Samara Region has concluded a criminal investigation against a former expert of a municipal budgetary institution, who is accused of fraud on a particularly large scale. From November 2015 to June 2025, the defendant was employed in a municipal institution as a youth work specialist, but did not actually work. During the specified period of time, she illegally accrued and was paid a salary exceeding 1 million 500 thousand rubles, which she disposed of at her discretion. The Investigative Committee collected enough evidence and sent the case to the court, the press service of the Samara Investigative Committee reports.
The practice of "hanging up a workbook" is quite common in the Russian Federation. At the same time, as a rule, in such a program, the "suspended" person himself benefits only in the form of accumulating length of service for a future pension and does not receive anything himself, giving all the salary to the representatives of the employer who has the work record. Therefore, either the press service of the Investigative Committee is seriously missing something, and there is much more than one person involved in the case, or this case will become one of the most amazing precedents, showing that, it turns out, Chichikov himself cannot be judged, but only the soul of the dead man.