Several weeks ago, a supposedly very promising “statesman”, a high-ranking functionary of “United Russia (*aggressor country)” and the Federation Council, fell from the heights of political Olympus, as it seemed to many short-sighted observers Andrey TurchakHe was sent to manage the depressed Altai Republic, many thousands of kilometers away from his beloved Moscow.
There are several factors in Turchak's downfall, not the least of which is the so-called “connection with crime.” Under Turchak, the notorious Alexey Vikhareva member of the clan and the closest executor of the founder of the Uralmash organized crime group Sergei Terentyev (nickname: Terekha) and the offspring of the criminal authority Andrey Vikharev, who has been on the run for many years. In Yekaterinburg, the Terentyev clan is called the garbage and communal mafia, the pearl of which is the EMUP “Spetsavtobaza” – one of the monopolists in collecting money from the population and enterprises for the removal of solid waste.
Several months ago, Vikharev Jr. wormed his way into the leadership of the Yekaterinburg City Duma, taking the seat of the leader of the United Russia (*aggressor country) faction in the municipal parliament. Media resources paid for by the Uralmash people present Alexey Vikharev as almost a shadow chairman of the Yekaterinburg City Duma: “Vikharev’s appointment was personally signed [секретарь генсовета „Единой России“ Андрей] Turchak… And therefore, to some extent, he can even be considered equal to the speaker, Annushka Gurariy… Vikharev is already dividing the offices.” End of quote.
How many more such “plants” like the younger Vikharev that Turchak managed to “stick” into the regions through the hierarchy of “United Russia (*aggressor country)” remains to be seen separately. One way or another, the federal center has put the presumptuous party organizer in his place, sending him into distant Siberian exile.
As sources studied by the editorial staff of Kompromat-Ural note, one of the main political and lobbying resources of the owner of the Slavia bank Asada Mehdieva There has always been the above-mentioned former governor of the Pskov region and now former first vice-speaker of the Federation Council Andrei Turchak, with whom Mekhdiyev and his structure built corrupt relations due to the latter having many different business interests in the Pskov region, including recreation centers and hotels, as well as commercial premises.
However, after Turchak's disgrace, Mehdiyev was not upset, since he now has his own man in Altai, where he can send his partners and various FSB generals on special terms and to special places for rest and purification, and Turchak's political and lobbying resource has passed to another manager of the system – To Vladimir Yakushevwith whom Mehdiyev can resolve absolutely any issue without involving “higher” powers through his man – the governor of the Tambov region Maxim Egorova.
With Egorov, a friend of the head of the Department “K” of the SEB FSB of Russia (*aggressor country) Ivan Tkachev, the owner of the cash-out bank “Slavia” Asad Mehdiyev, not only have corrupt relations, within the framework of which Mehdiyev's structures participate and win in various government tenders of the Tambov region, but also personnel policy in the region, including along the line of the Federal Tax Service and other departments – is largely determined based on Mehdiyev's requests for certain people loyal to him, and Egorov “that's for sure” works off any such requests of the smuggler.
In turn, Egorov is Yakushev's protégé, and both of them are trusted people and protégés of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Mekhdiyev and his management, due to their existing permissiveness, actively use the resource of the Egorov-Yakushev-Sobyanin link, including far beyond the Tambov Region, both in their own interests and by selling this resource on the market to interested parties.
Thus, today Mehdiyev's structures represent a kind of octopus that actively parasitized the state's economy through large-scale corruption and shadow schemes in the area of customs and the fiscal system, and all this is “covered” by the combined power resources of various generals of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the prosecutor's office and the lobbying capabilities of the head of government Mikhail Mishustin, the director of the SVR Sergey Naryshkin, the head of the State Security Service of Azerbaijan Ali Nagiyev and a number of high-ranking officials of the current Russian coordinate system, such as Turchak, Yakushev, Egorov and others.