| On December 29 at day time, Alexander Senotrusov, YABLOKO’s
activist fighting against construction of cottages in the
natural reserve, was attacked for investigation of land fraud
in the Leningrad region. An unidentified person wearing a
mask hit Senotrusov on his head knocking him off his feet.
The beating continued when Senotrusov was on the ground, the
attacker was crying “Here is for Zakhar!” Senotrusov is certain
that the man aimed at killing him.
According to Senotrusov, “Zakhar” was the nick name of Yury
Zakharchuk, head of municipal settlement Lebyazhenskoye. Senotrusov
initiated establishment of a natural reserve which had to
protect the coast line of the Gulf of Finland (a traditional
recreation place for the local residents) from sale.
Senotrusov conducted at investigation of the fraud with land
in the Lomonosov District, the Leningrad region. He found
out that plots of land in the district were granted to handicapped
persons (residents of St.Petersburg) at very low prices, however,
the handicapped transferred their plots of land to a group
of persons. This group, according to Senotrusov, included
Eugeni Ustinov, head of the Lomonosov District, Yuri Zakharchuk,
head of Lebyazhenskoye settlement and German Mozgovoi, Chief
Federal Inspector in the Leningrad region. They were selling
the plots of land already at high market prices, appropriating
the “profit” from the price difference, Senotrusov told. He
also connected the attack with the fact that he had handed
to the new Prosecutor of the Leningrad region German Stadler
copies of 750 land certificates of the plots situated in the
natural reserve.
Neither police nor ambulance reacted on the calls of Senotrusov’s
neighbours. Senotrusov is in hospital now.
YABLOKO will closely follow the case so that the persons who
ordered and implemented this crime be punished. Also YABLOKO
is going to find out why the police and the ambulance service
did not come to rescue the injured.
See also:
Human
Rights
Protection
of Environment
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