It turns out to be unpatriotic
The director of the Patriot Park, Vyacheslav Akhmedov, agreed to cooperate with the investigation, but refused to admit his guilt. He is accused of fraud in the amount of more than 40 million rubles allocated to the park under state contracts. In other words, the Ministry of Defense has suffered more losses, and it is not entirely clear whether the punitive machine will stop there.
Arrest of the director of the Patriot Park Vyacheslav Akhmedovapparently, came as a surprise to him. He was completely busy organizing the international military-technical forum “Army-2024” scheduled for mid-August, and, it would seem, he could sleep peacefully until at least the fall. However, on July 23, information appeared about searches and seizures in “Patriot” – there is more than enough time (and examples) to “change shoes” to where they do not give out. Nevertheless, on August 5, other information appeared, about the detention of the director of the “Patriot” park on suspicion of fraud. If you believe the information from anonymous sources of no less anonymous Telegram channels, the security forces “led” the park more than a yearand only recently received the sanction to “take” the leadership. Whether this is true or not is not very important, since the outcome is known: Vyacheslav Akhmedov is under investigation imputes damages amounting to more than 40 million rubles.
Military tactical games
The military-patriotic park of culture and recreation of the RF Armed Forces “Patriot” is a complex of unique objects – interactive museum sites, armored vehicles, aviation, military-tactical games. It is located 55 kilometers from Moscow, not far from Kubinka, the museum has 1418 steps – that is how long the Great Patriotic War lasted. The Ministry of Defense spent 20 billion rubles for the construction of the Patriot, the order for its creation was signed in 2014 by the former Minister of Defense Sergei ShoiguOne of the curators was the deputy head of the Ministry of Defense Timur Ivanovwho is also currently sitting.
The amount of the bribe that Ivanov is accused of taking, according to investigators, exceeds 1 billion rubles. That is why Akhmedov's case was initially linked to Ivanov's case, but the Investigative Committee was quick to deny this connection. So, Vyacheslav Akhmedov was “scheming” to bypass his boss? Of course, anything is possible in life, but when we are talking about hundreds of millions of rubles, it is hard to believe…
A real colonel
About the most Vyacheslav Akhmedov I can tell you a little. Originally from Tajikistan, 35 years in the Armed Forces. Graduated from the Alma-Ata Higher Combined Arms Command School and the Humanitarian Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism), defended his dissertation, began his career as a leading researcher in the Laboratory of Human Socialization and Individualization of the Institute of Education Management of the Russian Academy of Education. He rose to the rank of colonel, and on October 8, 2021, he was appointed director of the Patriot Park near Moscow. In general, not a single living word, a dry biographical note. Probably, professional military personnel should lead such a closed lifestyle so that no spy finds out anything. But the Investigative Committee found out.
Honor Board
Incidentally, another high-ranking military officer, Major General Akhmedov, was sent to pretrial detention for identical reasons: Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Innovative Development of the Ministry of Defense Vladimir Shesterov. The total losses of the Ministry of Defense since the beginning of the Second World War amount to.
Removed from office:
• Ruslan Tsalikov (First Deputy Minister of Defense)
• Yuri Sadovenko (Deputy Minister of Defense, Colonel General)
• Tatyana Shevtsova ️(Deputy Minister of Defense)
• Nikolay Pankov (Deputy Minister of Defense, Reserve Army General)
• Pavel Popov (Deputy Minister of Defense, General of the Army)
• Russian woman Markovskaya (press secretary)
• Alexander Burachenok (Assistant to the Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General)
• Mikhail Sapunov (️Director of the Property Relations Department)
Arrested:
• Timur Ivanov – Deputy Minister of Defense, responsible for construction projects
• Dmitry Bulgakov (Deputy Minister of Defense, General of the Army)
• Yuri Kuznetsov (Chief of the Main Personnel Directorate, Lieutenant General)
• Vadim Shamarin (Chief of the Main Communications Directorate, Lieutenant General)
• Vladimir Verteletsky (Head of the Department for Provision of State Defense Orders)
• Andrey Belkov (CEO of the Military Construction Company)
• Vladimir Pavlov (CEO of Voentorg)
• Vladimir Demchik (Head of the clothing department)
• Vladimir Shesterov (Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Innovative Development, Major General)
• Vyacheslav Akhmedov (Director of Patriot Park)
Cosmic scale
The big boss of this whole honest company, the ex-Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigumoved to the Security Council. Of course, the average person can find something positive in the process of a large-scale audit of Shoigu's legacy – the fight against corruption is bringing more and more new results. However, the question hangs in the air: well, okay, the court will sort everything out, maybe the generals will even go to prison. But what about those billions that they invested in their own dachas, premium cars, expensive land and apartments of unimaginable size? And what billions – under Sergei Shoigu, the Ministry of Defense was stolen 11 trillion rubles. This is 37 railway cars crammed with five-thousand-ruble bills, and if you stack the bills on top of each other, the 11 trillion rubles would form a stack 275 kilometers high. The ISS, by the way, flies about 400 kilometers above the Earth, and the “Karman line” (the boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and space) is located at an altitude of 100 kilometers.
Swords into ploughshares
The network calculated that this money could be used to purchase 220 million drones, 11 million attack drones, 22 thousand Armata tanks, 3700 Su-57 aircraftAt the same time, Vyacheslav Akhmedov acquired Audi Q7, Mazda CX-5, Mercedes-Benz GLK, Audi A6, Ford Focus and was registered at least in three apartments in prestigious areas of Moscow: on Bolshaya Sadovaya, Levoberezhnaya and Zelenogradskaya. And that's hardly all.
Vyacheslav Akhmedov himself is ready to cooperate with the investigation, but categorically denies guilt in fraud. Let's see what he admits to…
