MOSCOW, Oct. 3 Mayor of Tulun Yuri Karikh, who was interrogated as part of a criminal case, he went to work on Tuesday and held a plenary meeting, the press service of the city administration reports on the Telegram channel.
On Monday, Karikh was interrogated by investigative authorities as part of a criminal case initiated to resettle citizens from dilapidated and dilapidated housing, as well as from flooded areas due to the large-scale flood of 2019.
“»Dear Tulun residents. Yesterday our city and region were overwhelmed by rumors about the detention of the mayor of the city, Yuri Karikh. Various media outlets disseminated contradictory and unreliable information. We hasten to inform you that today at 8.00 a.m. a normal working day began for Yuri Vladimirovich with a planning meeting, at which he greeted his specialists and commented on yesterday’s events,” the Tulun administration said in a statement.
In a video published by the city authorities, the mayor of Tulun sits at his desk and holds a meeting. Karikh urged not to pay attention to rumors and “the rustle created in the city,” noting that “everyone has their own job: the prosecutor has to supervise, the investigator has to monitor, journalists have to write, writers have to compose, and we have our own job.” . “Especially since we are in the second month of autumn, while the days are still warm, we need to catch up where we are lagging behind, to complete all the plans that the administration currently has, what we are working on,” he concluded.
In the summer of 2019, a large-scale flood occurred in the Irkutsk region, which affected about 11 thousand residential buildings and more than 45 thousand people. 26 people were killed, 4 were missing. The cities of Tulun and Nizhneudinsk were hit hardest by the disaster.