Eugenia Khertek

A resident of Kyzyl, chairwoman of the "Dom" housing and social co-operative. On 2 May 2024, she was detained on charges of extortion and then imprisoned. In a letter from the detention centre, she said that the Tyva authorities had agreed to grant her co-operative 10 hectares of land plots, and some members of the co-operative started construction on the land. Later, the land was not given to "Dom", but 3 hectares were given to the construction company Bastion. The businesswoman, according to her, tried to negotiate a sublease with Bastion owner Sergei Bogusov. Khertek was accused of threatening to spread "disgraceful information" about Bogusov on the Internet. The businesswoman herself claimed that the case against her was falsified in order to "eliminate her as a competitor and not to provide the land to our cooperative", but to give it to "someone else who has a powerful administrative resource". On 17 March 2025, by court decision, Khertek was released from custody. It is not known exactly what the decision was, whether it was an acquittal or a conviction, or a non-custodial or a conviction with credit for the time served by Khertek.