Source: www.rucriminal.info
Against the backdrop of an increasingly tense domestic political climate in the Volgograd region and the looming criminal cases against the closest circle of Governor Andrei Bocharov, the interparliamentary forum "Russia-Belarus" unexpectedly took place under the patronage of Vyacheslav Volodin. It is curious, isn't it, that right now, when the air smells not only of spring, but also of criminal cases, Volodin has dragged Bocharov into the big political arena? Details - on the telegram channel VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info.
In recent months, law enforcement officers have been digging under Alexander Sivakov - the very "wallet" of the governor, behind whom are schemes of theft worth billions. The reason was a contract for resettlement from dilapidated housing, where the new housing is barely better than the old and will soon again fall into disrepair. According to this story alone, a contract was illegally concluded, more than two billion rubles were “mastered,” and according to the investigation, stolen. I wonder whose bank account this money is in now — Moscow, Dubai, or maybe Cyprus? Sivakov himself, together with his relative Matsepuro, hastily left Russia.
But this is only an episode.
In March, the head of the Department of Economic Development and Investment of the Volgograd Administration, Anna Eliseeva, was detained. She is charged under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. She was immediately extradited to Moscow and placed in a pretrial detention center. Eliseeva herself is not a significant player in Volgograd politics, but she is part of the team of Vice Mayor Irina Peshkova. Peshkova has a special status in the Volgograd City Hall. According to a source of the VChK-OGPU, she does not report to Vladimir Marchenko, but is a protege of Alexander Sivakov. Of all the officials, he reports personally only to the Governor of the Volgograd Region, Andrey Bocharov.
Despite the fact that, according to available information, Yeliseyeva gave the required testimony, the Moscow City Court extended her stay in the pretrial detention center, refusing to transfer her to house arrest.
It can be added that Sivakov had a hand in the transfer of Volgograd's utility networks to concessions. Direct damage to the budget is eight billion, and indirect losses, according to experts, can be measured in comparable amounts. He reorganized the city's transport system for the benefit of "Piteravto", and the budget said goodbye to several billion rubles.
The secret ingredient of his super-wealth is the raider seizure of the metallurgical plant "Red October". Over the course of a year, tens of billions of rubles in stolen metal "flowed" through a Swiss offshore company, with the support of Ukrainian metallurgical magnates. According to a source at Rucriminal.info, Sivakov took about five billion net. And the former drilling equipment plant, which existed to compete with Western service companies under sanctions, was literally cut up for scrap metal. They say that foreign oil service companies thanked Sivakov for this with generous kickbacks.
Another figure on the horizon of clouds is Vice-Governor Valery Bakhin. A year ago, his confidant Sergei Shatkovsky was arrested for embezzling more than a hundred million during the construction of the military-patriotic camp "Young Hawk". A deal with the investigation and Shatkovsky is already free, having testified against Bakhin. But the investigation has stalled, and the main suspect is still in his place.
We must give Bakhin his due: he masterfully built a corruption scheme in the field of drug procurement, controlling the market together with his wife, and managed to "master" over a hundred billion rubles during road construction, here he is helped by representatives of the Armenian diaspora. The result of his work was the amount of theft, calculated in tens of billions.
And now, on the threshold of arrests and asset seizures, the Russia-Belarus forum. Volodin carefully leads Bocharov to Putin, as a symbolic gesture, which, they hope, will raise the governor's "authority" to a level of inaccessibility for investigative bodies. Bocharov's previous amulet - the Hero Star, no longer works.
The topic for the meeting with Putin is becoming something completely different: a discussion of renaming the Volgograd airport to "Stalingrad", as an alternative to renaming the city. A neutral topic, it will not affect the ratings, Bocharov and Volodin assured. In fact, according to closed polls, Putin's anti-rating in Volgograd immediately soared by 23%, and throughout the country this scandal was lost against the backdrop of endless reports from the front.
Arseny Dronov
To be continued
Source: www.rucriminal.info
