FSB again searching St. Petersburg Transport Committee building
ST. PETERSBURG. May 21 (Interfax) - Investigators are again working in the building of the St. Petersburg Transport Committee as part of a continuing inquiry, a spokesman for the St. Petersburg and Leningrad region branch of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) told Interfax, declining to provide further details.
Officers from the FSB department for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region conducted investigative procedures at the St. Petersburg city administration's transportation committee on February 14.
"The procedures were carried out at the committee yesterday as part of a criminal case being handled by the department's investigative service," the FSB department told Interfax.
Similar procedures were also conducted at the St. Petersburg state institution called Transportation Organizer.
St. Petersburg's Dzerzhinsky District Court, remanded the St. Petersburg Transport Committee's former first deputy chairman Igor Mailov into custody on February 18 over a misappropriation inquiry.
City media outlets suggested that the investigation is related to machinations with ticket validation machines for city public transport vehicles worth over 11 million rubles and that former Transportation Organizer Director Vladimir Mikhailov is among the suspects.
In March, the Kirov District Court in St. Petersburg convicted four people of tickets fraud valued at 11 million rubles.
Svetlana Trushnikova, former director of Transportation Organizer's planning and ticket sales department, the company's former employee Olga Rumyantseva and cashiers Lidia Nikulina and Natalia Shcherbakova each received 4-year suspended prison sentences.