Delegates prevented State Department Store auction sale

Privatization of the head Novosibirsk store is postponed. But town already will lose lots of money on that occasion.

At current session of City Council a decision not to sell State Department Store (SDS) was made. But store safety stock will still be issued. Delegates just postponed sale at least for one year. And Central market will be sold in auction as soon as Office of Public Prosecutor investigates scandal criminal case of shadow sale of supermarket part. Other 18 municipal unitary organizations are in plan of privatization. Mayor said that city budget will lose 400 millions of rubles for keeping SDS as municipal property: "We must think how we can compensate those losses".

sections: Politics, Region News
regions: Siberian region