Ekaterina Petrova, a lawyer from Aleksey Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, has uncovered a contract for a government order of "up to 60 convicted people [for the creation of a] labor force." The contract was found on a government database of state orders.
The terms of the order stipulate that the convicts will partake in the construction of a 366 seat pre-trail detention center in the Crimean capital of Simferopol.
The cost of labor is stated as 0 rubles.
The contractor was listed as penal colony number 1 of the Crimea and Sevastopol division of Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service.
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