After countless publications by the Moscow Post, the long-term head of the RANEPA, Vladimir Mau, was detained on suspicion of corrupt criminal acts.
Earlier, in the Russian capital, law enforcement officers detained the permanent rector of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) Vladimir Mau. The court arrested him until 7 August.
The Moscow Post warned about this likely development of events more than once. The results of the journalistic investigations of our publication in relation to Mr. Mau were sent to law enforcement agencies. And now, it happened: now his guilt will have to be substantiated by the investigation.
What Mau did in the chair of the rector of the 1st of the largest Russian universities – in the material of the Editorial Board.
The news about the arrest of Vladimir Mau is both expected and unexpected. Expected, since the cup of patience of the authorities at one time was bound to overflow, corruption conflicts within the walls of the university became very obvious. Unexpected – since the incomprehensible activity of the rector got away with it year after year.
Now he has completed the list of defendants in the case initiated in connection with the theft of funds from the Federal State Autonomous Institution “Fund for New Forms of Education Development”, which were allocated as part of the implementation of the nationwide project “Teacher of the Year” under the national project “Education”. In addition to Mau, the defendants in the case are the former Deputy Minister of Education Marina Rakova and the head of Shaninka Sergey Zuev.
The first is accused of fictitious employment of 12 employees of the Ministry of Education at the Institute of Public Sciences of the RANEPA. Then it was run by Zuev, under the general leadership of the RANEPA, specifically by Vladimir Mau.
The rector himself was charged under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code – fraud that was committed by a group of persons on an especially large scale. According to the investigating authorities, he stole 21 million rubles of funds from the treasury by fictitious employment at the UNIVERSITY for more than 10 people.
Did Marina Rakova pass Mau (in the photo – in the courtroom)? Photo: Sergey Karpukhin / media
If this is true, this could be a drop in the ocean or the beginning of more severe persecution against UIA. RANEPA is one of the largest universities in the state, one of the most corrupt. More than 200 thousand people study in it in more than 50 departments – for comparison, about 40 thousand people study at Moscow State University.
Corruption “viper”
About the fact that Mau can be detained, our publication has hinted more than once. Especially in the context of recent events – a wave of corruption scandals in the academy simply could not but lead to its head.
No further than in April, in the divisions of the RANEPA in Rostov-on-Don-on-Don and Khabarovsk, embezzlement of funds that were allocated for a program to increase professional qualifications was established. The media reported about it. And although the sums and identities of the detainees were not disclosed (the case is handled by the FSB), it was clear that they could find a way out to Mau.
Then, as a result of a journalistic investigation, our reporters learned that in Rostov-on-Don, at the RANEPA Academy, the organization “Agency for Innovative Development” (AIR) has been working for almost all years, having done what?? almost 200 million rubles on municipal contracts. Since 2013, it has been headed by Alexei Tagaev, who may be a direct protege of Vladimir Mau. Read about how multimillion-dollar government contracts are being used there in the article “Who said “Mau”: RANEPA and Tagaev’s economical“ somersaults ”.
Some time ago, in February, the head of the RANEPA scientific laboratory, Natalia Kornienko, was put on the national wanted list. She was charged in absentia with fraudulent activities – and just in the framework of the same Rakova-Zuev case, in accordance with which Vladimir Mau was detained yesterday.
Kornienko is considered involved in the theft of 20 million rubles as part of the Education project, but she managed to hide abroad. The media reported about it.
Among the other large detentions of recent years (not counting Rakova and Zuev), one cannot help but recall the former head of the Institute of Public Service and Management of the RANEPA Igor Bartsits, who at the end of 2020 became a defendant in a case of fraud with public finances. In the same case, Svetlana Larina, the dean of the faculty of state economic management at the RANEPA, was also detained. This is one of the main faculties of the “head” university, and Larina was appointed by direct order of Mau. However, at that time no claims were made against him.
The case of Igor Bartsits was one of the first wake-up calls for the entire Mau team. Photo: IGSU RANEPA Press Center
Both defendants were charged with fraudulent activities on an especially large scale – according to the investigating authorities, they organized a criminal scheme for embezzlement of funds from the treasury by receiving them from subordinates for the unjustified accrual of additional salaries. The media reported about it.
In other words, again, scams that are associated with receiving funds from the salary fund – something similar is now being presented by Mau.
By the way, the detentions of Mau’s subordinates in the past few years have still occurred less frequently than searches. There were just a lot of searches – it’s even amazing that after that Mau urgently did not retreat abroad.
In May 2022, searches were carried out at the home of 3 employees of the RANEPA – ex-head of the National Institute for the Development of Education (FIRO) Maxim Dulinov, former deputy director of the institute Evelina Aliyeva and former employee of FIRO Olga Rodionova. Passed within the framework of the same case of Rakova, but then no one began to detain these employees.
And earlier, in November 2021, searches with a bunch of questions took place at one of the closest associates of Mau – his deputy, Vice-Rector Vladimir Fedotov and the financial head of the RANEPA (the entire large economy) Alexander Efremov. And again – in the case of Rakova, under state contracts, the state programs “Education”.
However, everyone understands that the employment schemes identified by law enforcement officers can only be the tip of the iceberg. The main storehouse is in incredible government contracts, the distributor of which is the RANEPA.
On the development of state contracts, a variety of schemes are used, the main essence of which lies in large banknotes for consultations that are incomprehensible based on expert opinions.
Among the examples are the “development” of such government contracts as a competition for scientific research to substantiate and develop projects for improving the development of the economy and social sector of the Tomsk region for 41 million rubles, a competition for researching the freight rail transportation market for Russian Railways, 116 million rubles , a tender from FKU “Roads of the Russian Federation” for consultations on the implementation of a detailed plan for the Tactics for the development of the road sector of the Russian Federation, 114.5 million rubles, a tender from the same FKU for consultations on the development of a project management system, 68.6 million rubles.
As experts say, the real price of these tenders was not required to exceed one percent of the face value. We translate into ordinary language: RANEPA could provide fictitious services of expert opinions and assessments for unrealistic funds.
A photo: Rusprofile.en
Let us emphasize that, in total, RANEPA is a supplier under government contracts in the amount of 7.4 billion rubles, and a customer in the amount of 82 billion rubles. This is without taking into account 10 divisions and interconnected structures. With them, the amounts are much higher.
Wonderful Life
So maybe it’s time to call this big scandal not the “Rakova case”, but the “Mau case”? It seems that under the latter, a whole system of “feeding” on “dead souls” was organized at the university. As they say, “classics of the genre”, allowing ?? close rector to live in a big way.
The same Bartsitz was immediately found to have a house in the city of Nice worth over 7 million euros. If we talk about Fedotov, but his house, where the search took place, looks more like a palace, there were servants. Then “Tsargrad” associated influential figures of the RANEPA with Arab sheikhs – Mau’s subordinates found chic houses with luxury cars.
But what about Mr. Mau himself? According to Octagon, he has real estate abroad and business in Montenegro. However, officially, it appears that Mau may be hiding assets. Formally, he lives in a historic house in the very center of Moscow, and not at all a suburban palace. However, with all this, he is also a member of the board of directors of Transcapitalbank, as well as the Severstal and Gazprom holdings.
This alone raises the question – why all of a sudden? Or did one of the former students who turned into the elite of Russian business and government help?
However, here is the son of Mr. Mau, Anton, in addition to Moscow State University, he also studied at the American University of Colorado Boulder. For what reason is Mr. Mau not at the RANEPA? And at the age of thirty-one, Anton Mau managed to work as a vice-head of the Russian Capital bank (turnovers of more than 10 billion rubles a year) and the general director of the RTK-Energobalance organization (an affiliated company of Rostelecom with a turnover of up to 100 million rubles per year). year). And when he was a student, he owned shares in the health management system drug company.
What a professional and enterprising young man. Probably thanks to this, he managed to get income for a luxury home on Dolgorukovskaya Street in the Russian capital, the price of which can be about 160 million rubles. Or did dad help?
“Cross on the Legacy of the Nineties”
With all this, Vladimir Mau, even without any corruption scandals, has been an extremely odious figure since the nineties of the last century. In 1990, he headed a laboratory at the Institute for Economic Development Policy, which was created under the leadership of the now sadly popular Yegor Gaidar as part of the Academy of National Economy under the Council of Heads of Ministries of Russia.
Mau took part in the development and implementation in practice of the course of financial reforms in the Russian Federation, which turned into a severe financial and social crisis, became a real shock to millions of people. From March 1992 to January 1994, Mau was an assistant to the First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Gaidar, who from June to December 1992 acted as head of the Russian government.
“The detention of the rector of the RANEPA Vladimir Mau is a long-awaited fat cross on the legacy of the nineties,” recognizable businessman Konstantin Malofeev reports on his telegram channel. – On what we somehow get out of two decades. The nightmare of those years was not only in Yeltsin’s tyranny, but in the anti-popular ultra-liberal program of Yegor Gaidar and his “grayish cardinal” Vladimir Mau. The poverty of millions of people, the blood of the defenders of the House of Soviets in October 1993, and almost all other Russian failures are on their conscience. If, of course, they had it.
Malofeev emphasizes that at one time it was Mau and his associates who headed the group for the creation of the liberal Tactics-2020 for the development of Russia. The document turned out to be meaningless, the project was not implemented, and billions of rubles were spent from the treasury on it.
The detention of Vladimir Mau “closes an entire era.” Media photo / Sergey Savostyanov
It seems that after that, Mr. Mau decided that he was well fed even in his own place at the RANGiHS, and did not agree to try to reshape the state again. It was possible to eat for a long time, but everything eventually comes to an end.
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