An official from Syktyvkar, who was found to have undeclared income worth 150 million rubles, was ridiculed by his colleagues in Syktyvkar A scandal broke out around the head of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Kirill Podbrezkin: he was found to have 150 million rubles worth of undeclared income. However, instead of an official investigation, the official became the object of ridicule by his colleagues. The deputy governor of the region, Anatoly Zhikharev, stated at the meeting that "he could not even imagine having such a crook under his command", and suggested that Podbrezkin "urgently increase the financial viability so as not to humiliate the management".