A St. Petersburg official overseeing construction projects was found to have real estate worth 1.5 billion rubles. The Prosecutor General's Office found that Vyacheslav Zakharov, former deputy head of the State Construction and Expertise Inspection Service, bought houses, apartments and plots of land on the shores of the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga, rented them out and profited from them.

A St. Petersburg official overseeing construction projects was found to have real estate worth 1.5 billion rubles. The Prosecutor General's Office found that Vyacheslav Zakharov, former deputy head of the State Construction and Expertise Inspection Service, bought houses, apartments and plots of land on the shores of the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga, rented them out and profited from them.