The “Ural” automobile plant faced a shortage of workers and had to partially compensate for this by attracting prisoners to work. informs Drom.ru, with reference to an interview with the manager of the Ural operating system, Grigory Zhitenev, to the newspaper Uralsky Avtomobil.
Zhitenev said the factory plans to increase truck production by 60% to 16,000 vehicles in 2023, compared to 2022. In connection with the increase in production volumes, the plant attracted 700 people under non-staff contracts and another 100 workers “sent via the GUFSIN line”.
At the same time, in 2022, the Federal Penitentiary Department of the Chelyabinsk Region, as an experiment, sent 30 people from colony settlements convicted of petty crimes or committed for negligence to the machine-assembly workshop and the main assembly line. Ural, Drom explains.
Earlier, the Mash Iptash Telegram channel reported that an employee of KamAZ was detained. allocated bonuses from subordinates.