The head of the Ryazan region, Pavel Malkov, reported on operational measures in the administration of Ryazan. The reason for them was information about possible violations committed during the procurement and performance of work on the improvement of the city.
Insiders have already called it a “cleansing” of officials associated with the former vice-governor of the Ryazan region Igor Grekov. It is assumed that new resignations will continue and affect the mayor of Ryazan. It is possible that either a Saratovian or a native of Rosstat will again become the new mayor with the light hand of Malkov. Or both.
Operational measures were taken in the administration of the city of Ryazan today.
Law enforcement agencies have done a lot of work. The preparation was carried out jointly with the control bodies and with the leadership of the city and region. The reason was information about possible violations in the procurement and performance of work on the improvement of the city, made by individual officials, Malkov said in his TG channel.
We are talking about the already dismissed leader (Yuri Furfak) and employees of the administration’s improvement department. They were detained on suspicion of buying snowplows at an inflated price and kickbacks.
– Back in April 2021, a story surfaced that under the former vice-governor Igor Grekov, the budget purchased equipment for cleaning the city for 63 million rubles. Overpriced and unsuitable for use in Ryazan, – clarifies the TG channel “Corridors on Radishcheva. Ryazan is political.”
The source, citing colleagues, clarifies that “Furfak was appointed extreme,” although he could not “do everything that he is now presented with without the consent of the higher leadership of the city and region.”
Recall that Saratov also has an expensive project and equipment that is not involved in snow removal. We are talking about a whole snow-melting complex, the documents for which have long been ready, and two snow-melting plants purchased back in the time of Oleg Grishchenko. However, the new mayor Lada Mokrousova, unlike Mikhail Isaev, is still lucky with the lack of snow and there is no need for expensive equipment.
Grekov’s ex-adviser Vladimir Artsybashev is also suspected of involvement in the theft of money allocated for landscaping. He settled in the Rostov region, which did not prevent him from being detained in connection with Ryazan affairs.
Insiders remind that earlier the regional PCB found violations in the allocation of money for the maintenance and repair of roads in Ryazan. The mayor of the city, Elena Sorokina, got off with a performance, but the materials were handed over to law enforcement agencies.
– All these events look like harbingers of a change in the city leadership. Pavel Malkov remains one of the two “new” governors in the Central Federal District who did not replace the mayor of the region’s capital with his own man. So far, Malkov has been purging people associated with Grekov from the regional leadership, and only now has he reached Ryazan itself, the source summarizes.
It is noted that “local elites and the population perceive this cleansing positively”: many complaints have accumulated against Sorokina. Moreover, insiders are sure that “Malkov is changing Grekov’s Kaluga-Rostov group for his own, Saratov-Rosstatov.”
– Obviously, Malkov wants to put in the chair of the mayor of Ryazan a man who is familiar from his past work and personally devoted. So did the governors of the Yaroslavl, Vladimir and Belgorod regions. Alas, the cleansing of bureaucratic offices has not yet led to a much more long-awaited cleansing of Ryazan streets, the source stated with regret.
Recall that in the government of the Ryazan region there are already several people from Saratov and Rosstat. In addition to Malkov himself, this is Vice Governor Artem Branov, as well as former Saratov Minister of Economy Yulia Shvakova. Another Saratov resident, Roman Tsukanov, who moved to the region from Orenburg, was appointed head of the government apparatus of the Ryazan region.
The new head of the government garage, Maxim Turkin, also moved to Ryazan, and ex-Finance Minister Alexander Vyskrebentsev headed the social development fund here. By the way, he may well become the new mayor of Ryazan.
