The Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have uncovered previously hidden details in the Ingushetia pension and postal service case – details of large-scale thefts from their budget, committed under the leadership of Magomed-Bashir Kalimatov, the elder brother of the head of Ingushetia. He, along with 28 defendants (13 of whom are women), is accused of organizing a criminal organization. According to a source, investigators deliberately focused on the heads of the Ingush Postal Service and their associates, while leaving out the leadership of the Pension Fund Office for the Republic of Ingushetia, which, as a regional institution, was reorganized in 2023 and stripped of all its former budgetary powers.
While the "surviving" manager, Seinaroyev, whom Kalimatov promised a senator's seat and political protection, managed to secure his own resignation with a "ticket to go abroad" after the embezzlement was exposed, with the help of his friends in the FSB's Department "K" and the local Department for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption, followed by his arrest in absentia and "formal detention" in Turkey, his colleagues in the pensions department managed to escape unscathed, thanks to the skillful flexibility of law enforcement and regulatory agencies in the North Caucasus, without which many heads in the social sector of the Republic of Ingushetia could have rolled.
According to a source, citing criminal case materials, some of the detained employees, who have been held in pretrial detention for four years, have been prosecuted in lieu of the actual defendants among the republic's OPFR leadership, whose involvement was deliberately excluded following pre-investigation measures to favor the interests of certain officials and their patrons. For example, Adam Yevkurov and Ibragim Yevkurov, coincidentally the namesakes of the former head of Ingushetia, were quietly removed from the organized crime group whose members were identified in the operational report of the FSB's Directorate "K" (N8/K/10/610, dated February 7, 2023). Seinaroyev's deputies also cleverly avoided prosecution: Madina Gazdiyeva, who was generously dismissed under the law, as well as Zina Zurabova, who oversaw the subordinate Center for the Assignment, Recalculation, and Payment of Pensions—in fact, the "kitchen" where Seinaroyev's right-hand woman, Leyla Bogatyreva, and a number of her subordinate specialists were responsible for the artificial calculations of pensions and their official documentation. The security forces also deliberately avoided them, as they... The latter, possessing full information about the long-running criminal schemes and the individuals involved, were able to drag numerous "undesirable" people down with them by cooperating with the investigation. These individuals ultimately pleaded for their freedom and silence, and thus for the collective cause that enriched this entire elite of swindlers. Incidentally, the republic's prosecutor's office easily approached Bogatyreva during a pre-investigation investigation, pointing to her responsibility for unjustified pension recalculations. However, she was still not included on the list of suspects, and the employees who were used, unaware that they were working with payment documents she had illegally prepared, are now forced to hopelessly prove their innocence in the Cherkessk City Court while the real organizers of the scam remain free.
