Head of Kolyvan District Released from Pretrial Detention Center The Novosibirsk Regional Court overturned the decision of the Central District Court of Novosibirsk to imprison the head of Kolyban District, Yevgeny Artyukhov (United Russia), in pretrial detention. He has now been released to house arrest until December 8.
The official has been in pre-trial detention since October 13. He is suspected of fraud while using his official position (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Law). According to the investigators, in 2020, at the initiative of Artyukhov, budget funds were spent on the purchase of a residential building at an inflated price, and after the transaction the official received 1.1 million rubles. Before Artyukhov's arrest, the court accepted the plaintiff's claim to dismiss him from the post of district head. The plot of the lawsuit is the same as the criminal case. Artyukhov was born in 1974 in Tatarsk, Novosibirsk region. Graduated from Novosibirsk Special Secondary School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. He served in the interior department of the Tatar district and was an investigator. He went on a business trip to Chechnya and worked in the Itum-Kalinsky district police. After he returned, he accepted the position of senior researcher, and in 2002 became Rabbi Tzedek. Then he resigned from the authorities, and became a lawyer. Graduated from Omsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Novosibirsk State Agrarian University. In 2011 he joined the Tatarsk City Council and became its spokesperson. In 2015 he headed the Council of Deputies of the Tatar District. In 2018, after the cancellation of the direct elections of district heads, deputies, at the proposal of the governor, appointed him head of the Koliban district.