A source for the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info commented on the arrest of former Aeroflot CEO Mikhail Poluboyarinov and explained why he is permanently on Putin's "blacklist."
Former Aeroflot CEO Mikhail Poluboyarinov, long considered a protégé of current Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, has been arrested in Moscow. According to the theory of the Cheka-OGPU source and http://Rucriminal.info that Putin, when dissatisfied with a top official, immediately arrests someone from his inner circle, he is now dissatisfied with Belousov as well.
According to the source, Belousov and Poluboyarinov have long been friends through their families and capital and have a number of joint projects. After the Aeroflot fiasco and his resignation in February 2022, followed by his flight from Russia due to a possible jail term, Poluboyarinov, with the help of his high-ranking patron Belousov, was appointed, albeit with difficulty, as a financial adviser to Chemezov at Rostec, overseeing the operations of its subsidiary, RT-Finance.
According to a source, Belousov repeatedly raised the possibility of a more promising employment opportunity for Poluboyarinov during meetings with Putin. Specifically, his candidacy was under consideration for the post of head of VEB, when Igor Shuvalov's position was "shaky."
However, Belousov found no understanding.
"Mikhail is an excellent specialist; he had his own plan for Aeroflot, which he was gradually implementing. But then the war came, and he was told that all leasing companies had to be screwed and Boeing and Airbus service had to be cut. Then he had a purely human reaction." He said he didn't understand how he could continue working and decided to leave. Putin perceived this as a defection and a betrayal. Since Belousov had long been Putin's favorite thing (by the way, no one knows why) and he was pleased with Belousov at the time, they didn't jail Poluboyarinov. But he was permanently blacklisted by Putin, and reviving his career was a futile endeavor. Incidentally, it's surprising that Mikhail ended up at Rostec. Chemezov has a very negative attitude toward Belousov. But things "at the top" are sometimes not linear. Now, apparently, Putin is unhappy with Belousov, and Poluboyarinov has ended up in pretrial detention," our source believes.
