Russias Emergency Situations Ministry has launched a disciplinary probe into one of its regional chiefs for publically wishing cancer on the family members of subordinates who accused him of corruption, a federal lawmakersaid Monday.Nikolai Lyubavin, who heads the Emergency Situations Ministrys Volgograd region branch, was recorded blasting unidentified staff members for filing a complaint with prosecutors over his alleged ties to one of Russias largest private banks Otkritie.Whoever wrote this, I hope their hands fall off and their entire family gets cancer, Lyubavin said during a video conference at the regional Emergency Situations Ministry.The video was published on Sunday by multiple media outlets in Volgograd.Its absolutely unacceptable for a top officer and official [to berate employees] especially since all this was said publicly at a video conference call and not in a private conversation,said Alexander Khinshtein, a senior deputy at Russias lower-house State Duma.The Emergency Situations Ministry's regional branch has scheduled an inspection that will result in a decision about Major General Lyubavins culpability, Khinshtein wrote on the messaging app Telegram.On Monday, the Volgograd-based V1.ru news outlet, citing an anonymous senior official at the ministrys branch,reportedthat the video of Lyubavin had been filmed a long time ago.[Lyubavin] himself wrote to the ministry about his employees, in response the employees wrote a statement against him, the source was quoted as saying.The Emergency Situations Ministry has not commented on the video of Lyubavin or the internal probe.