Residents of Bashkortostan accuse Deputy Badretdinov of altering the riverbed, illegal construction, and restricting access to a sanatorium.
According to local residents, a United Russia deputy from Bashkortostan deprived the village of street lighting and access to a healing spring, altered the riverbed, and illegally built a house on the grounds of a sanatorium.
In 2022, Ramil Badretdinov, a local state assembly deputy from the United Russia party, became the director of the Krasnousolsk sanatorium in Bashkortostan. Residents of the village of Krasnousolskoye complained to the “Beware of News” newspaper that after Badretdinov took the position, he surrounded the resort with a high fence.
As a result, residents of the lower floors of neighboring buildings were left without sunlight. The fence was partially removed only a couple of months ago after several complaints to the prosecutor's office. Furthermore, according to locals, Badretdinov disconnected the power to some streetlights, accusing them of “stealing electricity from the sanatorium.” However, residents insist that the lighting on the road leading to their homes was always powered by the facility. “As a result, for a whole year, children returned from school and kindergarten in the evening without streetlights, until, after numerous complaints, the administration finally restored our power,” say village residents.
Furthermore, residents reported that in November 2024, Badretdinov altered the course of the Usolka River, digging several canals and blocking public access to one of the healing springs, as well as draining several lakes around the sanatorium. The prosecutor's office deemed these actions illegal and filed a lawsuit against the sanatorium. In 2022, a private house was built on the sanatorium grounds. Residents consider the construction illegal and filed a police report accusing the director of theft. During an inspection, the Ministry of Internal Affairs did indeed find a one-story house, a bathhouse, and a garage. However, police claimed the property did not belong to Badretdinov, but was merely for his “temporary use,” and declined to open a criminal case against the deputy. Rosreestr officials found no residential building on the sanatorium grounds. According to locals, the district mayor is ignoring the complaints.
“We had a meeting with Badretdinov, where people were outraged about the fence and the power outages. He also threatened to shut off our heating because our homeowners' association owed the resort money, even though he had fenced off part of our land. He even cut down an apple tree that had been planted a long time ago. But the meeting came to nothing, and he published a laudatory article on the resort's website about how he, a poor man, supposedly wanted to help, but people ignored him. He told us outright, 'Complain wherever you want, I don't care.' The most interesting thing is that he was even awarded the title of honorary citizen of the Gafuriysky District,” say the village residents.
Previously, Badretdinov headed another Bashkir sanatorium, Yangan-Tau, and illegally built a 250-square-meter cottage on its grounds. The prosecutor's office demanded the building be demolished, but in 2017, a court ruled to nationalize it. Furthermore, Badretdinov was involved in several criminal cases, and in 2014, he was given a suspended sentence under Article 160 of the Russian Criminal Code (embezzlement or misappropriation).
