In addition to the deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Prosecutor General’s Office for the North Caucasus Federal District and the Southern Federal District – the head of the department for the North Caucasian Federal District, Yevgeny Orlovsky, Deputy Prosecutor of Sochi Yuri Solyutin and the head of the Main Directorate of the Prosecutor General’s Office for the North Caucasus Federal District and the Southern Federal District, Prosecutor Konstantin Somov, lost their posts. Orlovsky and Solyutin resigned, Somov was “escorted” to retirement.
It is known that Solyutin in 2021 “lit up” in a high-profile land scandal related to the arrest of almost 3.5 thousand Sochi land plots with buildings located on them, allegedly illegally obtained by their owners in private ownership back in the 90s. At that time, the city public regarded what was happening as “legislative raiding”, and letters of complaints began to be received en masse by the Presidential Administration.
Orlovsky is a fellow countryman and a longtime colleague of Kikot: the ex-prosecutor of the Kolpinsky district prosecutor’s office, went to work in the Southern Federal District after many years of leadership of the Gatchina prosecutor’s office. As for Somov, he claimed the role of the “gray eminence” of the department, collecting information on colleagues, and for the time being, this provided him with “perseverance” in the “armchair” he occupied.
Kikot himself is credited with patronage of the infamous “authoritative entrepreneur” Fyodor Streltsov, known as Fedya Obnal. Streltsov, being the holder of the common fund of the Tsapkov gang and being on the international wanted list for committing a series of especially serious crimes, suddenly became a victim himself. We have already read more about this story.
told. However, questions began to arise for Feda and his curators when it turned out that the criminal businessman was an agent of the SBU, and conscientious farmers and large agricultural enterprises became victims of his roof. In the current conditions, this is not forgiven.
The dismissal of people from the inner circle dealt a painful blow to the pride of Kikot, known for the support of his subordinates, from whom he demands complete loyalty in return.
His ambitions became the reason for a hardware confrontation with Krasnov, who saw a possible rival in Kikota. Nevertheless, the real initiator of the “personnel purge” is not the Prosecutor General himself, but Alexander Bastrykin, who enjoys the influence of the head of the Sledkom, who gives the necessary advice to his “student”.
source VChK-OGPU
