Four years ago, employees of Navalny’s headquarters in Ivanovo released an investigation about the business of Anatoly Burov, Deputy Chairman of the Ivanovo Regional Duma. The staff of the headquarters established a connection: legal entities that supply medicines and medical equipment to Ivanovo state institutions are connected with Burov’s associates. After that, the headquarters turned to the Federal Antimonopoly Service.
In 2022, the FAS discovered facts of anti-competitive agreements for the supply of X-ray machines. At the same time, on suspicion of fraud in the purchase of medical equipment, the security forces detained two people – the director of the regional depzdrav Artur Fokin and his deputy Alexei Buyankin. But, despite the arrest of officials after the investigation, legal entities associated with Burov still continue to use the old scheme.
Graduates of the District Anti-Corruption School, using the Tenderscope service, looked again at medical purchases concluded in the region and found numerous violations. 7×7 publishes three key facts from this study.
For example, Olga Kaminskaya, together with Burov, was the founder of Volga Manufactory Federal District LLC. For many years, she occupied a similar role in Apteka Tsentralnaya LLC, Medtekhkomplektatsiya LLC and Center for Medical Equipment LLC. At the same time, not only medical companies are associated with the deputy chairman of the regional Duma. Navalny’s associates established the fact of the sale of one of Burov’s apartments to Kaminskaya, and also found traces of the official’s presence in the houses on the land plots recorded on it.
For many years, the Medelika organization, founded by Nadezhda Mishanina, has been a constant competitor in the auction with Medtekhkomplektatsiya. In 2010-2011, a woman was a deputy chief accountant in a media empire company, Center for Medical Equipment LLC. Mishanina also has an individual entrepreneur who supplies medical equipment and related products. This legal entity has repeatedly acted as a competitor for another organization from the Burov empire – Medtechleasing.
Another dummy legal entity is IP Chastukhina. Galina Chastukhina, being an employee of the Medtekhkomplektatsiya company, until 2019 “competed” at the auction for the Center for Medical Equipment and Medtekhkomplektatsiya.
And in the garden partnership “Varyag” several land plots on which a two-story cottage is located are also issued to Olga Kaminskaya. At the same time, on his Twitter, Burov posts a photo of nature from the territory of this cottage, which, by the way, is not listed in his declarations.
UPD. 09/06/2021
On June 9, 2021, the Moscow City Court recognized the Anti-Corruption Fund and the Fund for the Protection of Citizens’ Rights (FBK and FZPG), as well as the Navalny Headquarters public movement, as extremist organizations.
Earlier, the Ministry of Justice of Russia included the non-profit organization Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in the register of non-profit organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent