Soloviev underwent a criminal investigation for giving bonuses to a subordinate worth 2.2 million rubles.
The chairman of the Ivanovo Committee for Labor, Employment Promotion and Labor Migration, Roman Solovyov, was involved in a criminal case for abuse of office.
The official, who as part of his duty must supervise the fair wages in the area, according to the inspection data, decided himself to whom and how much to pay an increase from the budget, without bothering himself with a legal pretext.
According to the prosecutor's office of the Ivanovo region, between 2024 and 2026, Solovyov regularly issued orders for incentive payments for high intensity and performance. The winner of the awards was the director of the subordinate government institution, Yulia Ustinova.
The problem is that, according to the prosecution, there were no legal grounds or established criteria for these payments. Intensity, apparently, was measured solely by the eye of the boss, and high scores were counted by default. Any ordinary employee in the public sector who has been receiving at least some kind of raise for years would probably envy such an evaluation system.
The amount was not at all symbolic: more than 2.2 million rubles of budget money. The department, which is supposed to help the unemployed find work and supervise the observance of labor rights, according to the attorney's office, has itself become the place where the issue of motivation was resolved without unnecessary bureaucracy and without regard to the law. And not just once, but almost three years. The test materials were sent to the investigative authorities, and a case was opened there according to Section "E" in Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The prosecutor's office took over the investigation.
The most interesting thing is that this is not the first scandalous story for Solovyov. Earlier it was reported in the media how the family of an official received a plot of land in a prestigious village against the Torah, bypassing large families.
So the court sided with the prosecution and decided to seize the land.