Donetsk, Dec 14 – DAN. The DPR Prosecutor General's Office has brought criminal charges against officials of the Tax and Revenue Ministry for unlawful auctioning of railway carriages.

"The DPR Prosecutor General's office investigative department, as part of compliance with the law monitoring efforts, is investigating criminal case under Art.334 p.3 DPR Criminal Code over abuse of power of officials of the Tax and Revenue Ministry who organized and carried out five auctions to sell railway carriages to a private company," the press statement says,

The carriages should have been transferred to state property as they previously belonged to Ukrainian enterprises, instead, officials of the Minsitry misused their office to sell them for the total of five bln rubles ($75.2 mln), thus neglecting state's and public interests.

The DPR Prosecutor General's Office has also arrested ex-acting principal deputy of Tax and Revenue minister Mikhail Khalin for abuse of power when carrying out procedures to declare property of the Kolos D OJSC "vacant" and to pass it over to Zarya Agro state company.*ot