Throughout the past year, law enforcement officers, out of breath, grabbed one bribe-taker after another in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. A quick count of bribes and kickbacks showed that municipalities and deputies stole more than a billion rubles in a year. But this, as they say, is only the top of those who were caught by the hand.
To the investigator how to work
Employees of the Volkovskoye municipality of the Frunzensky district of St. Petersburg are just right to collectively sing along with the sad composition of Leonid Agutin – “February”. Of course, it is necessary to sing under the windows of the dwelling of the municipal deputy Alexander Savchenkov and the deputy head of the Volkovskoye municipality Nikita Mokhov.
You know, it’s probably not true that we are with you, but it’s a pity
A sad acapella would have come in handy, because on February 1, early in the morning, operatives and investigators came to a dozen apartments of municipal employees. They were interested in the testimony of employees of the budget-economic, administrative, social sectors. The investigative-operational group is looking for traces of kickbacks, which the workers honestly handed over as Komsomol contributions from their own bonuses. Earlier, the greedy deputy Savchenkov was detained for a bribe of 360 thousand rubles. The deputy head of the municipality, Nikita Mokhov, is also on recognizance not to leave. The Investigative Committee considered that they needed testimony from other witnesses to the criminal scheme. After all, as they write in the media, they threatened to fire those who disagreed with the extortions. By the way, the security forces came to the municipality for the second time. Most likely, the total amount of damage in the indictment will be in the millions.
The competent authorities regularly went to the administration of the Krasnoselsky district throughout the fall of 2021. As a result, two criminal cases, but not simple ones, but with a twisted plot of fraud against the backdrop of tenders for the improvement of the Gulf of Finland embankment along the Baltic Boulevard. Earlier, the city administration allocated 100 million rubles for improvement. But work has not yet begun. Also, economic investigators are looking for about another 30 million rubles allocated for the repair of school No. 262.
But the autumn criminal story is not the first story in the life of the administration of the Krasnoselsky district. Scandals with a criminal tinge, here part of the municipal landscape, are as familiar as the janitor’s broom at the entrance.
In the summer, the head of the education department of the Krasnoselsky district became a defendant in a criminal case on facts of negligence. The official, according to the investigation, having concluded a contract for the rest and treatment of disabled children on the Black Sea, decided to save money and sent them to a dilapidated boarding house, where rats, spiders, cockroaches ran, and perhaps mold did not jump out from around the corner. Hearings on the thrifty aunt from the education department should begin soon, the case has gone to court.
Another trial of another employee of the administration of the Krasnoselsky district took place at the end of November 2021. The Krasnoselsky District Court of St. Petersburg found the former deputy head of the district administration, Alexei Mironov, guilty of accepting a bribe on an especially large scale and sentenced him to 5 years in a strict regime correctional colony and a fine of 10 million rubles. The clever official demanded kickbacks from the businessman for his support in obtaining government contracts and “general patronage.” The merchant, in total, unfastened him 9 million.
To prison with the whole team
For virtually the same reasons, the operational-investigative group practically beheaded the administration of the Priozersky Leningrad Region. In the spring of 2021, the general director of the Priozersk Regional Services Agency, Yuri Gerasev, went to the pre-trial detention center. After heartfelt conversations with the investigation, the Sledkom detained the deputy head of the administration of the Priozersky district of the Leningrad region, Alexandra Polyanskaya. The Agency was searched. Then the investigators came to the soul of the former deputy head of the Priozersky district for housing and communal services, Natalya Glumilina. And again, millions are looking for. This time, about 15-19 million were received by a certain contractor for the performance of work. In fact, the company did not perform any work.
All these arrests and interrogations were the result of the detention of Vladimir Polishchuk, deputy head of the administration of the Priozersky district, to whom the competent authorities had many questions. Then the threads of the criminal investigation led to Sergey Galushko, a member of the Council of Deputies of the Priozersky District of the Leningrad Region. It is him that the Sledkom considers the culprit of a major embezzlement of budget funds. According to investigators, he came up with a whole scheme to withdraw public money from the district treasury for housing and communal services. For this, a regional service agency and several private companies were used. Now the dashing deputy is on the federal wanted list. The enterprising uncle’s intuition worked perfectly and he rushed on the run, dropping his slippers.
The housing and communal services sector has become for all sorts of scammers just fabulous caves full of gold. Now the deputy head of the administration of the Kolpinsky district of St. Petersburg, Alexei Zhukov, is under investigation. He is accused of taking a bribe of 26 million rubles. An official asked for a bribe for signing acts of acceptance and delivery of work on the maintenance of common house property, cleaning yards in the Kolpinsky and Pushkinsky districts. It is clear that no one followed the quality of these works, and was not going to. Now the quality of cleaning and the other condition of the property is described in three criminal cases.
An even more cheerful fate, apparently, awaits the ex-head of the administration of the ever-memorable Vsevolozhsk district of the Leningrad region. Law enforcement officers not only took Alexander Sobolenko under white hands, but even dragged him to Moscow on a wave of anger Alexander Bastrykin, who listened to the complaints of the participants of the SNT Osinka about the waste of land allocated to large families. Let’s not hide, a clever man, citizen Sobolenko, oh, clever! Well, why should there be some plots for large families? They are so rich. Children. And respected people desperately need plots on the golden Vsevolozhsk land. However, the state did not think so, and now Sobolenko is charged with damages of 121 million rubles.
Not for self-interest, career for!
The courts in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region only have time to pass sentences and replenish the colonies with officials of various stripes. At the very end of 2021, Oleg Mikheev, the former head of the Cadastral Chamber of the Leningrad Region, and his deputy, Sergey Khramov, received vouchers to a strict regime colony. Mikheev received 13 years, Khramov 10. But most of all he was impressed by the fine of 75 million rubles imposed by the court. The bribe-takers took bribes not only with money, but also with vouchers, air travel and accommodation in good hotels. It is worth noting that these comrades have very well inherited on the land of the Leningrad region. Frauds with lands in the Priozersky district have already been assessed by the court and the verdict was handed down in 2020. The total damage from fraud amounted to 248 million rubles.
Already at the beginning of this year 2022, another epic trial began in St. Petersburg. Alexander Boluchevsky, the former chairman of the finance committee of the Vyborg city administration, ended up in the dock. He is accused of fraud on an especially large scale and official forgery. This story at one time made a lot of noise, since the main financier of Vyborg, literally, robbed the city’s budget of 700 million rubles! The money was intended to buy a high position in Moscow. Since the financier believed that he needed a larger feeder, he did not waste time on trifles and launched both hands into the city’s treasury. Now the scope of his career dreams will be assessed by the court.
The greed of officials of various stripes, in the truest sense of the word, costs the treasury fabulous sums. In order not to be unfounded, we simply made a table
|
institution, position |
District |
Amount of damage |
|
District administration |
Krasnoselsky |
100 million and another 30 million rubles |
|
Deputy Head of Administration |
Krasnoselsky |
9 million rubles |
|
Deputy Head of Administration |
Priozersky |
15-19 million rubles |
|
Deputy Head of Administration |
Kolpinsky |
26 million rubles |
|
The head of administration |
Vsevolozhsky |
121 million rubles |
|
Management of the cadastral chamber of the Leningrad region |
Priozersky |
248 million rubles |
|
Chairman of the Finance Committee |
Vyborgsky |
700 million rubles |
|
Total: |
1 billion 253 thousand rubles |
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Oksana Drobinskaya