The prosecutor’s office of Novosibirsk Oblast of Russia sent a criminal case on a fire at a shoe factory, which resulted in the death of ten people, including two from Kyrgyzstan, to the court. Official representative of the prosecutor’s office Dmitry Lyamkin informed. Kommersant Novosibirsk reported.
According to the newspaper, the owner of the building, the head of the shoe factory Obuv-NSK and its executive director will appear before the court. According to the investigators, the owner of a non-residential one-story building in Chernorechensky settlement of Iskitim district carried out its reconstruction, but did not put it into operation and did not register it with the territorial executive authorities. It is not allowed to carry out fire inspection of the object.
In the winter of 2017, the premises were rented by a shoe factory. The case states that the head of Obuv-NSK company and the executive director of the company did not provide fire safety: the systems and fire protection equipment turned out to be out of order, they did not carry out fire-fighting instructions with the factory workers.
On the morning of January 4, 2018, a large fire occurred at the factory due to a short circuit. It killed seven citizens of China, two citizens of Kyrgyzstan and one Russian.
The criminal case was filed under the articles «Causing death by negligence and Violation of fire safety requirements» of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The accused did not admit their guilt.
