In Crimea, on Valentine’s Day, a deputy of the State Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan of the second convocation from United Russia, Igor Budanov, knocked down his grandmother to death in his BMW and fled the scene of an accident. A 73-year-old woman was found unconscious on Lenin Street in Simferopol in the evening around 19:30. The condition of the victim was critical, she later died in the hospital.
After an accident, a prudent politician got out of the car to hide all traces of the accident, but this did not help him. The killer and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kosmo-Damianovskiy Monastery, who was moving on a white behe seven, were identified by cells and already at one in the morning people in uniform visited him.
After the arrest, he did not deny his guilt, but later refused to testify against himself, taking advantage of Article 51 of the constitution on the advice of a lawyer. It will no longer be possible to determine whether he was drunk (or even under something) during the accident, since for some reason they did not begin to take tests from the official. Interestingly, at first United Russia tried to confuse the police by giving the wrong date of birth and another place of work. However, having broken Budanov through the bases, the operatives found out his real position.
Now Igor Budanov’s membership in United Russia has been suspended. In the future, if his guilt is proven in court, not only will the issue of his expulsion from the party be decided, but he can also leave for 12 years.
In addition, it turned out that this was not the first such case: in 2013, Igor Budanov, being the head of the Dobrovsky Village Council, in a BMW on one of the streets of Simferopol, knocked down a child, who subsequently received a closed head injury and bruised left thigh. Then he confessed to his deed only a day later (seemingly he wanted to do the same this time), while claiming that the child had light scratches.
Also, when Budanov was the head of the administration of the village council, he was involved in the Dobroye investment project on the Yalta highway, where a builder died at a construction site due to non-compliance with safety rules.
From October 2016 to September 2019, Budanov worked as a deputy of the State Council of the Republic, Chairman of the Committee of the State Assembly of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Agrarian Policy, Ecology and Natural Resources. And since September 2019, he became a deputy of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea of the second convocation. Today he is the Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Budgetary, Financial, Investment and Tax Policy and the coordinator of the federal party project “Clean Country”.
According to the modest data of the declaration, the annual income of the deputy amounted to only 72 thousand rubles. His wife earned “a little more” – 685 thousand rubles. At the same time, neither he nor his wife officially have a personal car. Where is the car from then? And since they found it so quickly, it means it was registered at his address, and if so, then why is it not in the declaration? The spouses also own a land plot of 1200 square meters and an apartment of 50 square meters.
There, in the declaration, there is another interesting information: it is said that Budanov works as a commercial director of Terra Respublika LLC.
The general director of the organization is a local businessman – a certain Kostylev Oleg Igorevich. It is known that he is associated with a number of other organizations: TSN “Scandinavsky”, LLC Private Security Company “Angarsky”, LLC “Wet Affairs”, LLC “Lightdom”. The latter is engaged in the production of concrete products for use in construction. And remembering the story about the extraction of sand from the dam of the Nizhne-Churbashsky tailing dump, located in the Kerch region, where the waste of the Kamysh-Burun Iron Ore Plant, excessively saturated with phosphorus, was stored, it becomes clear that Budanov and Kostylev can be connected.
Recall that in June 2014, when Budanov was just in charge of ecology and natural resources, the Kerch Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor’s Office issued a warning to the liquidator of the Kamysh-Burun ZhRK and the chief engineer of Nedrodobycha LLC, who mined sand in the area of the tailings bypass channel and sold it. Then it could lead to an ecological catastrophe. However, the intervention of the supervisory authority only suspended the destruction. After the inspection, and by private individuals, the equipment resumed its work and millions of tons of toxic sand continued to be exported.
After the appeal of the deputy of the State Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan Yuri Yuryev in the spring of 2016, the prosecutor’s office of the republic conducted a new inspection with the involvement of specialists from the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Krymtekhnadzor and the Kerch inspection of the Azov-Chernomorsky territorial department of the Federal Agency for Fishery, as a result of which work was stopped. As it turned out, the sand was removed from the dam by Geninvest LLC and Krym Magistral Stroy LLC on the basis of an agreement with KB ZhRK JSC. The leaders of the LLC were fined three hundred and ten thousand rubles, respectively.
It’s funny that the fine is easily covered for two dozen KamAZ walkers. And from the body of the dam, according to local activists, about 200 thousand tons of sand have already been removed. At least 240 million rubles were earned on the burial mound.
It turned out that the waste accumulated over the years of the plant’s operation is also a potential raw material for the manufacture of concrete, which is subsequently supplied to the construction sites of children’s institutions, catering and other social infrastructure. This is where Oleg Kostylev’s Lightdom LLC comes to mind.