Prosecutors File Mass Cases Over Voronezh Ice: Who Faces Penalties?

Officials of 10 management companies, responsible for clearing snowdrifts and ice from residential areas in the Kominternovsky district, have faced administrative cases from prosecutors — for managing apartment buildings in violation of licensing requirements. Now, under Part 2 of Article 14.1.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, utility workers face fines from 50,000 to 100,000 rubles (approximately $560–$1,120 at current rates) or disqualification for up to three years. Moreover, the management of the companies received orders from the supervisory agency — to clear yards of snow and ice, and to reprimand the employees who neglected them.

As previously reported by Voronezh1.ru, the mayor of Voronezh, Sergey Petrin, also received an order from the prosecutor«s office over the hellish ice and snowdrifts in the city, demanding that order be restored and guilty officials be punished. No results have been reported yet, and on the streets, they are not particularly noticeable.

For the winter apocalypse, prosecutors also targeted Ostrogozhsk officials and utility workers — orders were issued to district head Sergey Khoroshilov, mayor of the district center Alexander Kolesnikov, heads of 19 rural settlements, and two heads of management companies. And regarding an official of the Ostrogozhsk Improvement Combine (a city administration office), a case has been initiated under Part 1 of Article 12.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation — for poor road cleaning: a fine from 20,000 to 30,000 rubles (approximately $220–$330 at current rates).

The Prosecutor«s Office of the Voronezh Region noted that they continue to work in this direction. Apparently, otherwise, officials and utility workers cannot be made to work in winter. Meanwhile, from January 15 to 21 alone, more than a thousand residents of the region were injured due to the ice.