Evgeny Pruidze hung noodles on his ears, promising a bright future for the Selenginsky plant in Buryatia. As it turned out, the businessman was not at all interested in the prosperity of the enterprise, since for two years he planned to sell the Central Control Commission and emigrate abroad.

In February 2023, it became known from the top managers of the Selenginsky Combine in Buryatia that the owner of the enterprise, Yevgeny Pruidze, seeks to “get out of the cash” and sell the CCC. The businessman is already actively preparing a “safety cushion” for himself in order to move to a permanent place of residence in Batumi.

Negotiations on the sale of the JCCC have been going on for the second year, but at the moment no one is interested in buying it due to the closure of the borders with China, where most of the products went. In addition, the director of the plant, Lilia Deeva, never thought about import substitution, and with the increase in sanctions, the enterprise found itself without some of the chemicals necessary for production, including ordinary bone glue.

Now Pruidze’s main goal is to resume deliveries of products to China and increase the profitability of the JCCC. In this case, the chances of selling the plant will greatly increase. It may take about a year, but the owner of the enterprise is ready to sell it even at a low face value.

What is interesting is not so much the fact that the JCCC with a vilified reputation is going to be sold, but the hypocrisy of Pruidze himself. After all, in pursuit of hype, he promised to introduce more than one technology on the territory of the plant.

Recall that in August 2022, a film titled “How a timber industry grandfather saved a bankrupt plant and the city of Selenginsk” was released on YouTube. The main plot of the video was the history of the development of the JCCC of Buryatia with another fat pinch of self-promotion from Evgeny Pruidze and Lilia Deeva.

In an interview, Pruidze announced that by the end of 2022, the Selenginsky plant will become the first plant to “introduce a unique production gas purification system.” As expected, the company never saw the promised system, although there were rumors about it back in 2021. Hoping that the new owner of the plant will express a desire to invest more than one tens of millions in cleaning up stinking and dangerous emissions will also be naive.

However, one can also forget about the creation of the “first biochemical complex in Russia”, which Pruidze spoke about. But this is positive news, since at the moment in Russia there is no system at all that would provide for all stages of pharmaceutical waste management. Therefore, everything would come down to the fact that through the Vilyuyka River, which flows near the JCCC, substances of various toxicity classes would enter the Selenga and downstream into Baikal, poisoning local residents along the way.