Former director for Shikotan fish processing plant detained after workers make live appeal to Putin

Source: Interfax

The former director of the “Island” fish processing plant on Shikotan island, Natalia Kashkarova, has been detained after investigators received a warrant for her arrest, say representatives for the Sakhalin region Attorney’s Office.

On April 14, workers from the fish-processing plant spoke to Vladimir Putin on his annual Direct Line Q&A phone-in show on live TV. They told the president they had been promised high salaries when they began work at the plant, but they had not been paid in six months. Moreover, they had no way to leave Shikotan island and were forced to work “like slaves.” The local district attorney’s office had refused to do anything.

After the appeal to Putin on live TV, regional authorities and law enforcement agencies burst into action. Following an audit of fish plant’s finances, four criminal cases were initiated that implicated former director Natalia Kashkarova and main company shareholder Yury Belkin.

In February 2016, Kashkarova had already been sentenced to 2 and-a-half years in prison for unpaid wages to “Island” fish processing plant workers.

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