In the North Caucasus Federal District, they are preparing for the arrest of the well-known Stavropol authority Aslan Karakotov, a source in the law enforcement agencies of the region said. The roof of local werewolves in uniform allowed a native of the Caucasus to earn for many years on raiding, weaning fields and lands for individual housing construction, on kickbacks from state contracts, and so on, local media wrote earlier. But people who are faced with Karakotov’s lawlessness have not believed in justice for a long time. They say he gets away with any crime.
Karakotov, a native of the village of New Karachay, considers himself a devout Muslim, the Stavropol people say, although in reality he is an ordinary huckster and lawless person who has nothing sacred. His nickname in criminal circles is Scrooge. They say he got it for pathological greed. For the sake of money, he is ready to go over their heads, break the fate of people, destroy holy places for their own development.
A few years ago, Evening Stavropol published investigationhow this “authority” through a dummy one-day company seized the square near the monument to the Hero of Socialist Labor F. D. Kulakov for the construction of a mosque and a shopping and hotel complex.
Less than a year later, journalists from the Ren-TV television company released plot about a large Chernov family. They bought a house on the outskirts of Stavropol, but two months later it turned out that the land under the house and adjacent to it did not belong to them, but also allegedly to Karakotov’s structures.
“Some people came to us, they said that they were masters, and they were sold to us as serfs,” said Tatyana Chernova, a mother of many children. “We started to fear for the children. They could not be released into the yard.
The fears were not in vain. They blocked the road to the house with concrete blocks and began to threaten. The family feared that the children would be slaughtered in their own home.
“The whole territory around us and even under us was bought up by some Caucasian authority named Aslan,” the poor woman reported then. – He believes that the piece of land where our house stands is part of his possessions. Every day, strangers walk near our house, blocked our exit, poisoned the dog. We have a simple Russian family, we have done nothing wrong to anyone! When my husband is at work, my children and I cannot be at home, and yet our youngest daughter Arina is only six months old. How much we have suffered during this time, it is hard to even imagine. Nobody can help us.
The Ministry of Agriculture and the Urban Planning Committee declined to comment “in connection with the change of leadership.” At the same time, officials promised to help people, but deceived.
This is not surprising. According to extracts from state registers, Karakotov is the founder or affiliate of many firms, almost all of them are connected with high-ranking officials of the region. And all – with a criminal-criminal flair.
Komsomolskaya Pravda wrote how Severo-Kavkazsky Agrokhim scammed its suppliers for almost a billion rubles under the guise of fictitious bankruptcy. And local bloggers with documents in their hands described episodes about the construction of a mosque on Kulakov Avenue: “And about other machinations and raider seizures, it’s better to read here: “Credit to your mother”, “North Caucasian Agrosprut. Where did the money of foreign investors go?”, “Fraud in business” and so on.
Yes, and ordinary hard workers of Stavropol also tried to fight lawlessness. For example, residents of the village of Serafimovsky, Arzgirsky District, Stavropol Territory, owners of 385 land shares, published an appeal to the president when their plots were also taken away out of lawlessness. “No matter what authorities of the Stavropol Territory we turn to: the State Duma, deputies Katrenko V.S., Alferov A.P., the Governor of the Territory A.L. Chernogorov, the result is always negative,” the poor people wrote.
But after the “preventive talks” they stopped writing for some reason.
Gradually, everyone in the region was taught that if you rock the boat, it will be worse for you, the Stavropol residents say. We are in power here and we do whatever we want. In private conversations, Stavropol investigative journalists admit that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Racketeering, threats, blackmail, raider “masks-shows” with the help of security officials bought with giblets – this is the standard arsenal of the Stavropol business. Everyone is afraid to speak.
“Everything has been bought up, power and crime have merged into one whole, you can’t prove anything to anyone,” admits one of the local journalist colleagues. “The only hope is that someone upstairs will really intervene. But then it will be necessary to imprison not only local thieves in law, but also some of the ruling elite. Will the feds go for it? I doubt. But we all hope so.