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Businessman Māris Martinsons and head of "Rīgas Satiksmes" Leons Bemhens behind bars, the rest of the company's board resigned, Riga vice mayor Andris Ameriks was shaken. This week brought several upheavals to Riga's political and economic circles. Riga residents can also feel shocked: public transport procurement, which already seemed suspiciously expensive, now looks even worse according to the information provided by corruption fighters. The sums of the purchases investigated by KNAB exceed a quarter of a billion euros, and the sums of bribes were made up of specific percentages of the sum. "de facto" it is known that five percent or more than three million euros had to be caught in one of the procurements only at some stage of the chain. More - in Ivo Leitan's plot.