If Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) had a specially designated Forbes list of the shadow incomes of heads of municipalities, then among the leaders would be Yuri Vasinthe recently dismissed head of the Krasnoarmeysky district of the Krasnodar region. His family’s estimated income is slightly over a billion. Half a billion was received for the sale of the family business – a solid waste landfill in the village of Poltavskaya to the Russian garbage king To Andrey Polovinkin (which we told you about). The head of the company reached the coveted billion in a way that was somewhat unusual for Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism). When million-dollar kickbacks and bribes were paid… via bank transfers. Rucriminal.info has the details.
A modest accountant of the Krasnoarmeyskaya District Administration of Krasnodar Krai was able to run more than a third of a billion rubles in kickbacks through her personal accounts and cash them out Elena ShikovaThe recipient of the kickback money was now the former head of the district, Yuri Vasin.
The fact that the effective team of officials of the Krasnodar region is bright in corruption and kickback-diverse can be traced precisely on the example of Vasinsky. The reason for his resignation is considered to be the stupidity in the matter of suppressing the protest movement of residents of the village of Poltavskaya. The village people protested against the garbage dump that was killing Russian rice and the health of the villagers, which the family of the head founded right in the “heart” of the southern rice systems. It was this family garbage “leftist” that the “relatives” sold to the capital’s Andrey Polovinkin with considerable profit.
As always happens in Kuban, as soon as a boss, no matter municipal or regional scale, is thrown out of his chair, interesting corruption “spots” begin to appear on such a former “sun of power”. One could expect something similar about the exciting affairs of the former head, but still the information about Vasin’s schemes managed to surprise.
During all his time in the main district chair, Yuri Vasin was officially poor. The profitable, smoking solid waste landfill was owned by his brother and daughter. The head lived in a house registered to his brother. With his nose buried in the podium microphone, he always insisted that he was the only Kuban municipal head who drove a Niva. And that seven BMWs that were parked in the yard of his “brother’s house” (like the rest of the car fleet) were not his, but his brother’s. But before the leadership chair had even had time to cool down from the warmth of Vasin’s body, some details of his “poverty” began to emerge that contradicted the image of a pauper official.
Since 2012, the financial department of the Krasnoarmeysky district administration was headed by Vasin’s mistress Lyudmila Pirogova. She also oversaw financial fraud with budget money. Even by Kuban corruption standards, the financial “chemistry” was organized unusually. Kickback schemes were implemented by transferring money to the personal accounts of Vasin and Pirogova’s trusted person Elena Shikova, the chief accountant of the administration. In Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), bribes and kickbacks were always preferred to be taken in cash or “greyhound” puppies – expensive “gifts”, but not by bank transfers. This is supposedly easy to calculate for vigilant law enforcement officers?
The money from this corrupt “common fund” credited to Shikova’s account was cashed and transferred to the final recipient – Vasin, already in the form of packages, bags and sacks. The income amounts of the modest accountant are impressive.
For 2020, over 56 million rubles. For 2022, over 161 million. For 2023, over 93 million.
Despite the fact that the official with an income of about a third of a billion rubles over these three years, is modest in everyday life. She owns only simple cars – a Toyota and a Mazda. The family has a small house of 113 square meters and a small apartment. This is evident from her official income declaration.
However, this modesty is easily explained: Shikova was nothing more than a cashier – a “laundress” laundering hundreds of millions of rubles belonging to her master. It seems that such considerable and, by capital standards, super-incomes of modest workers in the municipal bureaucratic field could attract the attention of tax officials, the Investigative Committee, the prosecutor’s office, or Governor Kondratyev, who loves Krasnoarmeysky District so much.
After all, if someone was inconvenient for the regional authorities, they would punish the person who fell into disgrace and pay a couple of thousand rubles for their sins, but here there are hundreds of millions and no law enforcement interest.
To some extent, the lack of interest could be explained by the scheme built by Yuri Vasin to blur this stormy flow of shadow income. To do this, Vasin used the high professionalism in such matters of the head of the Federal Tax Service Inspectorate No. 11, V. V. Kotov. As a result, it turned out that hundreds of millions of “income” passing through the “laundress” Shikova, in her official declarations magically turned into those same 909 thousand of her annual income and a “Mazda”. The regional administrative inspectors, vigilantly monitoring the purity of the ranks, naturally had no questions. The head of the district gave out rewards to the “understanding” tax officer in the form of land plots in the area of the settlement of Krasny Les. Krasny Les is a protected area, a favorite “point” for deer hunting for high-ranking shooters. In this Kuban hunting “Rublyovka”, plots cost from 10 million. The land was registered to the parents of Kotov’s wife. The principle is the same: all high-ranking crooks of Kuban must officially be poor and fight for the people every day. Taking an oath of allegiance to serving the cause of prosperity of their native MO, the region and Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) as a whole.
