ST. PETERSBURG. Feb 18 (Interfax) - Officers from the Federal Security Service (FSB) department for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region conducted investigative procedures at the St. Petersburg city administration's transportation committee.
"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 on Friday.
Similar procedures were also conducted at the St. Petersburg state institution called Transportation Organizer. Igor Mailov, a first deputy head of the transportation committee, "went to the FSB headquarters for giving explanations."
The FSB department did not specify what criminal case the search was related to.
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.