MOSCOW, September 29 (RAPSI, Yevgeniya Sokolova) – Nine officials of a territorial administration of the Russian transport inspection authority, Rostransnadzor, four of them at senior positions, have been brought to disciplinary responsibility at the request of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, the agency’s official web site informs on Thursday.

The Prosecutor General’s Office reports that it has carried out an inspection of compliance with the anticorruption legislation on the part of the Russian federal transport control authority’s administration answering for transport safety in the Central Federal Region. According to the prosecutors, they could find out irregularities in officials’ income reports, what was in contravention of the respective law.

Basing on these findings, the Prosecutor’s Office requested the official in charge of the administration to take disciplinary measures against the offenders. This Thursday, the prosecutors report that their request has been complied with.

Among the violations brought to light by the prosecutors were failures to report on houses, apartments, land plots and other properties owned by the officials or their spouses, as well as concealment of some monetary gains.

Besides, officials were found in breach of the Russian laws on state procurement and those prohibiting certain public servants to open bank accounts outside Russia, as well as have deposits and keep valuables abroad, or use foreign financial instruments.

Earlier, the Russian Investigative Committee has informed that it carried out searches across 27 residence and office premises, including a Rostransnadzor’s Central Road Control Administration in Moscow, over a 1,15 million ruble (about $18,000) bribery case, whereas media reported that two Rostransnadzor senior officials were arrested.