Today in Irkutsk Oblast, Sergey Sokol, acting head of the region after Governor Igor Esipovsky died in a plane crash, will hold a briefing. A criminal case has been opened over the helicopter crash that killed five people, and investigators are already determining the causes and circumstances of the tragedy.
The briefing of the first deputy chairman of the government of the Irkutsk Region, Sergei Sokol, will take place today, May 10, at 11:00 p.m.The first deputy governor of the Irkutsk Region, Sergei Sokol, will temporarily act as the head of the region.
“The duties of the governor are being performed by the first deputy head of the region, Sergei Sokol,” Interfax was told by the governor’s press secretary, Leonid Alkhov.
As a result of the helicopter crash, in which the governor of the Irkutsk Region, Igor Esipovsky, and four other people were killed, a criminal case has been opened under the article “violation of traffic safety rules and operation of air transport, negligently causing the death of two or more persons” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Interfax was told by the official representative of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor’s Office of Russia, Vladimir Markin.
This article (Article 263, Part 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) provides for a penalty of up to seven years in prison.
V. Markin also said that an investigative and operational team has been formed to determine the causes and circumstances of the crash and the deaths. The investigation is being conducted by the East Siberian Transport Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation.