Corruption flourishes in the Moscow region under Governor Vorobyov, but law enforcement agencies do not dare to make claims to the authorities.
According to the correspondent The Moscow Post in the suburbsled by the governor Andrey Vorobyov the region again distinguished itself with a minus sign. It entered the top three constituent entities of Russia in terms of the number of crimes committed on its territory in 2021.
Information about this is published on the portal of legal statistics of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Russia. That is, this is quite official data.
According to them, in the period from January to December 2021, 73,780 crimes of all kinds occurred in the Moscow region. Only the Krasnodar Territory and the capital managed to “get around” the region in this indicator.
Not that anyone would be too surprised. The Moscow region regularly ranks at the top of this table. So, at the end of 2020, it ranked second with an indicator of 73,941. As you can see, the decline over the year was purely symbolic.
She, the Moscow region, under Vorobyov, regularly occupies a leading position in the ranking in terms of the number of identified persons who have committed economic crimes. According to this indicator, for 2021 the region was also in third place – more than 2 thousand offenders were brought to clean water there. And mostly, it was about corruption.
All this, again, is not surprising. After all, if everything is clear with Moscow and the Krasnodar Territory (the economic and tourist capitals of the country, respectively), then experts are increasingly trying to connect problems with the rule of law in the Moscow region with the personnel policy of the governor. It seems that his corrupt officials are caught almost more often than pickpockets in the subway. Well, the atmosphere in the municipalities is appropriate.
“Watching” the suburbs
One of the most high-profile corruption detentions of the past year (and this should also have been included in the statistics!) Was the criminal case of one of the most notorious officials of the Vorobyov team, the then first deputy head of the department of territorial authorities Maxim Tarkhanov.
He was detained in February, and by that time he had worked in his position for a short time, only a few months. Previously, he was the head of the Ruza district, where there were also many corruption scandals.
The criminal case concerned precisely that period of work: according to the investigation, Tarkhanov, in the position of head, entered into an agreement with JSC AIS without competition! for the reconstruction of sewage treatment plants. According to investigators, the work was not carried out in the proper amount, it turned out to be impossible to put the facility into operation, and the damage amounted to half a billion rubles. This was reported “REN TV”.
Such a person, according to Vorobyov, was supposed to oversee the relations of the Moscow government with the territories, because it was not in vain that he promoted him?
Suppose Governor Vorobyov was not aware of the corruption cases that they eventually tried to impute to Tarkhanov.
However, many people remember how a dam broke in Ruza a year before – because of the rains and the flooding of the Gorodyanka River, the city infrastructure, which had not been repaired for decades, simply could not stand it. The flood began, the inhabitants had to be evacuated. Vorobyov hurried to the area to “show himself”, as if “solving” the situation on the spot. The locals already then told him that Tarkhanov should be kicked in the neck. However, Vorobyov ignored these wishes.
Rumor has it that Tarkhanov allegedly made acquaintances with criminal authorities of the Moscow region, which is why he was appointed to the Department of Territories – after all, he knows people on the ground. This is hardly true, but if we talk about crime, then among the possible lobbyists in the power corridors of the Moscow region, rumors have repeatedly named the head of the Podolsk organized criminal group Sergey Lalakin (“Luchka”), the “authoritative” businessman Anatoly Petrov, known in some places as “Petrukha “, and many other people from the “dashing 90s”. That is, rumors fall on fertile ground.
Balashikha as a “diagnosis” of the entire region
For a long time, they tried to attribute influence on the former head of the Pushkinsky district, and before that – Balashikha and Zheleznodorozhny Evgeny Zhirkov, to the same Petrukha. I must say that even among other territories, Balashikha stands out for its corruption scandals.
In 2019, Yevgeny Zhirkov also came under criminal prosecution – he was suspected of taking large bribes. According to investigators, he received two non-residential premises in the amount of 73 million rubles from developers, whom he allegedly “helped” with the delivery of their houses. So writes “Kommersant”.
Representatives of three companies are named as alleged bribe-givers – CJSC Mosstroymehanizatsiya-5, LLC Independent Construction Company (NSC) and LLC Brit. All of them are extremely remarkable and flourished precisely during the period of Vorobyov’s governorship.
What is worth only CJSC “Mossstroymekhanizatsiya-5”, which has government contracts worth 15 billion rubles in its assets! By the way, this structure is now in the process of being liquidated, as is NSK LLC. Apparently, the investigation did not go beyond the investigation of Zhirkov’s “exploits”, and it became possible to hide the ends in the water.
Here’s something else that surprises. After all, Balashikha is the largest city in the Moscow region, it is a special focus of attention for both law enforcement officers and the governor. Or maybe Vorobyov knew, but closed his eyes? ..
After the fiasco of Zhirkov, Balashikha was headed by an even more remarkable and scandalous character – Sergey Yurov. And Aleksey Koval worked as his deputy. The latter was also detained in 2019.
The Investigative Committee of Russia suspected him of receiving multimillion-dollar bribes from the management of DSK Leader LLC, which regularly won tenders for the construction of roads in the Balashikha region. The investigation believes that since the summer of 2018, Mr. Koval received at least 4 million rubles from this company for general patronage Wrote about this “Kommersant”.
Sergei Yurov. Photo: Balashikha Urban District Administration
Recall that Koval’s boss Sergey Yurov took up his duties in 2017, and Koval was completely his creature. By the way, the ill-wishers tried to present Yurov himself as the holder of the assets already mentioned Zhirkov.
Perhaps that is why, at the very end of 2019, a new series of searches took place in the Balashikha administration, and documentation was confiscated. According to some reports, it was about actions related to the illegal allocation of municipal lands. One thing is clear – under Yurov, the situation with corruption in the district has not improved.
People’s lives have not improved either. Previously, The Moscow Post published material “Balashikha “Yurovsky” period” at the request of the residents of the area. There they told without embellishment exactly how Mr. Yurov manages the district. And there is little positive – dubious investors, problems with housing and communal services, and terrible medicine and roads.
And even earlier, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations from Balashikha turned to us, claiming that they were forced to be “slaves” in the dacha hacienda of Oleg Burlin, Yurov’s deputy. It’s just like the Middle Ages!
With God Nisanov on his chest
You can list scandals and detentions for a long time, because there are still many municipalities in the Moscow region, and almost everyone has “noted himself” in this way. But the fish rots from the head – what can we say about subordinates, if they tried to attribute corruption to Vorobyov more than once? In particular, the lobbying of the Samolet development group, to the foundation of which his brother, Maxim Vorobyov, is related.
“Airplane” receives the most delicious plots of land near Moscow for development, and is now actively expanding into other regions. Maxim Vorobyov, through his structure CJSC IG 11, owns 75% of the Airplane Two Capitals company (“daughters” of the Airplane company), which is just engaged in promotion in markets outside of Moscow and the Moscow region.
In addition, Maxim Vorobyov acted as a co-founder of Gleb Frank’s Russian Fishery Company LLC, has many business connections and interests with other large entrepreneurs.
It is believed that at the same time he only represents the interests of his influential brother Andrei. Which, for obvious reasons, cannot do business. And recently, Samolet got a new partner – 10% of the company was bought out by the owner of the Kievskaya Ploshchad Group of Companies, God Nisanov.
The latter is an odious oligarch who is engaged in real estate development and keeps many covered markets in Moscow. Allegedly, he belongs to the influence group of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. And the Kievskaya Ploshchad Group of Companies gets more and more “delicious” territories under the capital. Just like Airplane.
God Nisanov is a close associate of Andrei Vorobyov and a partner of his brother Maxim. Photo: God-nisanov.ru
He, God Nisanov, is also a freelance adviser to Andrei Vorobyov. Doesn’t anyone see any possible conflict of interest in this?
It seems that Governor Vorobyov is generally ready to turn a blind eye to a lot of things. For example, Nisanov has relatives – brothers named Zakharyaev, who are also involved in development.
One of God Nisanov’s former partners, Ilgar Gadzhiev, claims that the Zakharyaevs took away his business on Nisanov’s orders. And before that, they offered to “bring in” funds to Andrei Vorobyov in the amount of $600,000 per month for general patronage. As an intermediary, according to Gadzhiev, Maxim Vorobyov was supposed to act.
All this should be checked by law enforcement officers. The same Hajiyev wrote many statements about the actions of the Zakharyaevs and Nisanov and sent them to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee, the Prosecutor General’s Office …
But all in vain, no response. There is no reaction to what is happening on the part of Andrei Vorobyov, who, under the ranting about the fight against corruption, continues to patronize many dubious personalities.