08:57, 26 July 2025

Ministry of Agriculture official arrested in Rostov-on-Don

A court in Rostov-on-Don has chosen a preventive measure for the head of a department of the regional Ministry of Agriculture, suspected of receiving a bribe for processing subsidies for farmers.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, on July 25, searches were conducted in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Rostov Region in the case of the head of the department for the development of crop production industries. The official was detained on suspicion of receiving a bribe (Part 5 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

According to the FSB, the official demanded that farmers who were applying for reimbursement of part of the costs of production and sale of grain crops transfer 5% of the total amount of the subsidy to him.

The Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don chose a preventive measure for the head of the department of the regional Ministry of Agriculture, an employee of the press service of the regional FSB reported.

"The court chose a preventive measure - detention for 2 months," Interfax quotes him as saying.

A representative of the Ministry of Regional Policy and Mass Communications confirmed the fact of the official's detention, the agency writes.

Recall that on February 17, Deputy Governor of the Rostov Region and Minister of Agriculture Konstantin Rachalovsky was detained in a criminal case of abuse of power. In June, the court released him from house arrest.

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/413330