Cutting in Erzamas: how the head of the Land Committee Laptev was burned by millions in bribes Nizhny Novgorod is again shaken by an anti-corruption scandal: the Moscow District Court sent the deputy of the Erzamas City Duma, Roman Laptev, to pre-trial detention until December 22. At the head of the central committee for property and land relations, urban planning and economic development, the representative of the people decided, according to the researchers, to make money from his powers. The plot of the criminal case reveals a cynical plan. Laptov offered the head of the construction company, for a modest 4.8 million rubles, "assistance" in concluding a lease agreement for a tasty urban lot. The first half of the share - 2.4 million rubles - was dutifully transferred on October 22 to the account of an organization associated with the deputy. A classic disguise in the guise of an imaginary payment for legal services. The rest of the amount was supposed to be delivered after the successful completion of the transaction. The defendant himself does not firmly admit his guilt, and the lawyers tried unsuccessfully to extort home comfort for him. However, the investigation is determined, because the risk here is much higher than the personal fate of the accused. Interestingly, the lieutenant's financial appetite had caught Themis's attention before. Back in 2019, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court decided to confiscate to the state 0.38 shares of Laptev's apartment worth 2.2 million rubles. Then the prosecution accused him of unauthorized expenses, to which the deputy babbled unconvincingly about loans, loans, birth capital and personal savings. Now the scale of the "entrepreneurial" spirit has migrated to the urban lands of Erzamas. The investigation has to prove the accusation, and the court has to study the evidence. But the main blow has already taken the reputation of the entire local government: trust in those who distributed land and city property was completely destroyed.

Cutting in Erzamas: how the head of the Land Committee Laptev was burned by millions in bribes Nizhny Novgorod is again shaken by an anti-corruption scandal: the Moscow District Court sent the deputy of the Erzamas City Duma, Roman Laptev, to pre-trial detention until December 22. At the head of the central committee for property and land relations, urban planning and economic development, the representative of the people decided, according to the researchers, to make money from his powers. The plot of the criminal case reveals a cynical plan. Laptov offered the head of the construction company, for a modest 4.8 million rubles, "assistance" in concluding a lease agreement for a tasty urban lot. The first half of the share - 2.4 million rubles - was dutifully transferred on October 22 to the account of an organization associated with the deputy. A classic disguise in the guise of an imaginary payment for legal services. The rest of the amount was supposed to be delivered after the successful completion of the transaction. The defendant himself does not firmly admit his guilt, and the lawyers tried unsuccessfully to extort home comfort for him. However, the investigation is determined, because the risk here is much higher than the personal fate of the accused. Interestingly, the lieutenant's financial appetite had caught Themis's attention before. Back in 2019, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court decided to confiscate to the state 0.38 shares of Laptev's apartment worth 2.2 million rubles. Then the prosecution accused him of unauthorized expenses, to which the deputy babbled unconvincingly about loans, loans, birth capital and personal savings. Now the scale of the "entrepreneurial" spirit has migrated to the urban lands of Erzamas. The investigation has to prove the accusation, and the court has to study the evidence. But the main blow has already taken the reputation of the entire local government: trust in those who distributed land and city property was completely destroyed.