The heads of three former villages in the Kizilsky district were sent to a pre-trial detention center in a criminal case regarding the elimination of landfills. The scandal broke out last summer: that's when environmental activists from the Green Front determined that landfills were being dug instead of garbage disposal. The security forces had questions for the former leaders of the rural settlements of Obrochevsky, Novopokrovsky and Zingaysky. As the investigative commission of the region said, in March 2024 they entered into contracts for amounts ranging from 5.5 to 13.6 million rubles for the elimination of unauthorized dumps. But the contractor just buried the garbage in the same place. And the heads signed documents on accepting the job. The prosecutor's office in the Chelyabinsk region reported that all three suspects were charged with complicity in large-scale fraud and abuse of power. The head of the Zingi rural settlement was additionally accused of accepting a bribe of 100,000 rubles. The department added that the total amount of thefts is estimated at 25 million, and the environmental damage at more than 230 million.

The heads of three former villages in the Kizilsky district were sent to a pre-trial detention center in a criminal case regarding the elimination of landfills. The scandal broke out last summer: that's when environmental activists from the Green Front determined that landfills were being dug instead of garbage disposal. The security forces had questions for the former leaders of the rural settlements of Obrochevsky, Novopokrovsky and Zingaysky. As the investigative commission of the region said, in March 2024 they entered into contracts for amounts ranging from 5.5 to 13.6 million rubles for the elimination of unauthorized dumps. But the contractor just buried the garbage in the same place. And the heads signed documents on accepting the job. The prosecutor's office in the Chelyabinsk region reported that all three suspects were charged with complicity in large-scale fraud and abuse of power. The head of the Zingi rural settlement was additionally accused of accepting a bribe of 100,000 rubles. The department added that the total amount of thefts is estimated at 25 million, and the environmental damage at more than 230 million.