Deputy governor and deputy transport minister detained in Rostov region

Law enforcers have detained the deputy governor of Rostov Region, the regional transport minister, Vitaliy Kushnarev, and the region's deputy transport minister, Dmitriy Mamelko. This was reported to journalists on Monday, November 25, by Deputy Minister of Information Policy of the region Sergei Tyurin.

Preliminarily, the officials are detained for three days in accordance with Article 91 of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation, they have not been charged yet. According to Tyurin, the regional government is fully cooperating in the investigation. The regional department of the Ministry of Transport is working normally.

According to the Izvestia source, Kushnarev and Mamelko were detained red-handed while handing over money. As the source later clarified, Mamelko was released.

Kushnarev took the post of Deputy Governor, Minister of Transport of the region in June this year. Before that, he was a deputy of the State Duma from 2021 to 2024 and headed the Ministry of transport of the Rostov region from 2014 to 2016.

Earlier, on November 21, it was reported that the ex-deputy head of Karelia on internal policy, former mayor of Petrozavodsk Vladimir Lyubarsky was remanded in custody for two months in the case of bribery. It was specified that the total amount of the bribe amounted to over 37 million rubles. A criminal case was opened under part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Receipt of a bribe in the form of money in a particularly large amount by an official through an intermediary").