In March 2024, Vasily Kozupitsa, the mayor of flooded Russian Orsk, bought an apartment in the Binghatti Nova residential complex in Dubai for almost half a million dollars. The purchase boasted his wife in social networks. This is stated in a fresh investigation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation.
The investigation claims that from 2016 to 2023 the son of the mayor of Orsk owned a security company "Vympel", which for several years led his father Vasily Kozupitsa. The Orsk mayor's son himself left the country in October 2022 after the start of mobilization.
Four months before that, the mayor's family moved to Saudi Arabia. The family Kozupitz ran a Telegram channel about their "relocation" where they detailed how they obtained a driver's license and residence permit for the Arab country. The wife of Kozupitsa Jr. in the Telegram channel wrote that the decision to move "was made not on emotions from the announcement of mobilization, but by coincidence a few days before".
Anti-Corruption Foundation notes that shortly before the breach, the mayor of Kozupitsa inspected the dam and called the accumulated water "normal phenomenon".
Recall, after the dam burst on April 5 in Orsk flooded about 7 thousand houses, at least five people died there. More than 12 thousand people were evacuated.
