The leadership of the charter airline Azur Air (the largest in the Russian Federation) was charged with corruption. It is reported by RBC with reference to a source in the Investigative Committee. It is not known who exactly the case concerns, while “unidentified persons” appear in the case.
According to the publication, the airline's employees issued Maxim Kostylev, who at that time was the head of the flight operation department of the Federal Air Transport Agency, vouchers to Turkey, the cost of which was almost 5 million rubles lower than the market prices of vouchers with similar conditions.
The packages included business class flights and lodging in a luxury hotel owned by the chairman of Azur Air's supervisory board.
Investigators believe that the organization of such a holiday could have influenced the results of the inspection of the airline's work by the Federal Air Transport Agency, which revealed a "limited number of violations." The Federal Air Transport Agency also promised to issue permission to the airline to operate additional passenger flights.
