Story out of Moscow, Russia:
Russia Wednesday detained a senior prison service official on suspicion of stealing a 50-kilometer (31 mile) stretch of public road, investigators said.
Alexander Protopopov oversaw the dismantling of a concrete highway and sold off the slabs as prison service chief in the far northern Komi region, the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
The road, which was made up of over 7,000 reinforced concrete slabs, was "dismantled and driven away" over the period of more than a year, between 2014 and 2015.
Other prison service officials participated in the scheme, pretending to dispose of waste, with one arrested so far, prosecutors said earlier.
Investigators said the scheme had cost the Russian Federation over six million rubles ($79,000/73,000 euros).
Road construction is one of the most corrupt sectors in Russia, with costs much higher than on comparable projects in other countries. Cont.
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