Russian police have arrested a former director of a fish factory whose employees complained to President Vladimir Putin about a backlog of unpaid wages during a call-in broadcast this month, the TASS news agency reported Thursday.
Natalya Kashkarova, a former head of the “Ostrovnoy” fish factory on the Far Eastern Kuril Islands, was scheduled to appear before a judge on Thursday, who will rule on whether to authorize her arrest, the Interfax news agency reported.
She was detained a day earlier on the island of Shukotan and escorted to the regional center of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to face court, a spokesperson for the regional prosecutor's office said, Interfax reported.
Earlier this year, a court in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk found Kashkarova guilty of failing to pay 2 million rubles ($30,630) in back wages owed to workers, and handed down a suspended 2.5-year sentence, Interfax reported.
During Putin's call-in broadcast this month, fish factory workers complained about rough working conditions on Shikotan and wage delays.