The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Leningrad Region has a legal incident. Officially, the authority is located at one address, but in fact, the investigators are physically sitting in a completely different building. The trick is that the authorities of St. Petersburg did not allocate this property to the Leningrad Region SK for use.
Line of homing pigeons
It is known that each official body has its own address. The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) for the Leningrad Region has the following address for correspondence: 197342, Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), St. Petersburg, st. Torzhkovskaya, 4.
But you won’t find the investigators themselves at this address. Citizens are received at another address: St. Petersburg, Voznesensky Prospekt, 16-b. Here, in general, one may wonder whether it is possible to write letters and send papers to the actual location of this important investigative body. Will it reach the recipient?
In order to understand the intricacies of addresses, you need to plunge a little into the past. A reliable fact – in 2016, the current head of the Investigative Committee’s Investigative Directorate for the Leningrad Region, Sergey Sazin was appointed to the post of head of the North-Western Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee. At the same time, the North-Western Department of the Investigative Committee for Transport received for use from the government of St. Petersburg a building located in the very center of the city. Near the Sennaya Square and Sadovaya metro stations. You can easily reach it on foot. By tram from Gostiny Dvor you can get there in about 15 minutes.
The above address: Voznesensky Prospekt, 16-B. In other words, the place is convenient both for city residents and for the investigators themselves. But the main convenience and pleasantness was that the omnipotent director of the RF IC himself often visited the department of the IC in transport. Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin. Here, by a happy coincidence, he equipped his reception room, because he loves St. Petersburg and is sensitive to how the investigative agencies entrusted to him protect his hometown.
Needless to say, the neighborhood is very pleasant for Sergei Tikhonovich. Is it a joke to regularly say hello in the corridor to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee himself?
But the fate of the villain crept up unnoticed. In the fall of 2019, another personnel rotation took place, and the acting IC for the Leningrad region Pavel Vymenets, swapped places with the head and North-Western SDT of the Russian Investigative Committee Sergei Sazin. (Let’s immediately make a reservation that the reasons for this rearrangement are known only to Alexander Bastrykin himself).
A change of management occurred, and the management had to change buildings. But that didn’t happen. An experienced apparatus wolf, Sergei Sazin did not want to leave his already settled office on Voznesensky for a completely understandable reason – proximity to a powerful figure in the top management. As knowledgeable people say, through intricacies and intrigues, the Central Office of the Investigative Committee turned a blind eye to the leapfrog with buildings, and the Investigative Directorate for the Leningrad Region and the department employees had to pack their things and go to Voznesensky Prospekt. Their colleagues from the transport department also had to pack their bags and move to Torzhkovskaya street.
Changing the places of terms
Everything would be fine if it weren’t for those very legal issues. At the end of 2019, Sergey Sazin decided to legalize his residence at 16-B Voznesensky Prospect under the management entrusted to him. The necessary documents were sent to Smolny, with an attached proposal to conclude a contractual relationship related to the use of the SU for the Leningrad Region by the building, which is, for a moment, owned by the government of St. Petersburg. And then something amazing happened! It turned out that the city administration, having studied all the submitted papers, was inexpressibly surprised. The government was not aware that the building was occupied by a completely different legal entity to which it was allocated. In fact, it turned out that the Investigative Directorate for the Leningrad Region is located there… somewhat… without permission. Of course, this plot is not suitable for the historical annals of the Northern capital, but there is a twist to this issue, and it is unpleasant.
The government of St. Petersburg refused to sign any agreements with the Investigative Committee for the Leningrad Region, supporting its refusal with the message that the government of St. Petersburg does not have any free buildings for these purposes. To top it all off, they asked Sergei Sazin to “vacate the premises” and suggested asking for shelter from the government of the Leningrad region. In general, there is nothing to complain about here.
Legally and subjectively, everything is written correctly. Should be responsible for the fate of the location of the Investigative Committee for the Leningrad Region Alexander Drozdenkobut not Alexander Beglov.
Having recovered a little from such a rebuke, Sergei Sazin, as they say, decided not to give up. As they say, a hardware fighter can handle any task. So, a real Indian military trick was used: on the facade of the controversial building on Voznesensky, a sign of the North-Western Transport Administration of the TFR suddenly appeared. Not far from the same sign of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) for the Leningrad Region. The move, as they say, is brilliant, because now any government official will not figure out exactly whose investigators are sitting in the said building.
It must be said that the city government did not say anything about this. Because quarreling with the Investigative Committee, as they say, costs itself more. The leadership of the Northwestern SUT TFR was also surprised (as they say on the sidelines) but acted differently. Agreements were concluded for the use of the building at Torzhkovskaya 4, through the government of the Leningrad region, and is still working in the field of fighting crime in transport.
Tactical move
However, such a trick was not in vain for Sergei Sazin. According to knowledgeable people, those around Bastrykin “are not fools either,” and the rules for placing the chairman himself in St. Petersburg have also changed dramatically. The reception of citizens in the office next door to the chairman suddenly stopped and employees of the Sledkom cultural center moved into the reception room.
Since the consequences of the Indian trick turned out to be significant, as they say on the sidelines, another attempt was made to legalize the presence of the Investigative Directorate for the Leningrad Region in the building on Voznesensky. A certain letter of guarantee was sent to the government of St. Petersburg, again with a request to officially transfer the premises for use. But the answer, as they say, came in the same style – they say, there are no places, everything is occupied, sorry. Now the Investigative Directorate of the Leningrad Region legally has a legal address at Torzhkovskaya 4, and physically the investigators are located at Voznesensky. Because of this, the post office regularly experiences nervous attacks. The postal authorities refuse to deliver letters to Voznesensky Prospekt, 16-b, so the poor office of the SKU has to go to the post office, which is located on the other side of the city, to collect correspondence. A little is not a lot. Now there are problems with the courts. The courts at the location of the investigative body, that is, in the center of the city, send everyone to trial at the legal address, to another area, and the court at the location of this address is not at all eager to take on even more cases, which, of course, with such a situation it has increased. Problems also arose with paying utility bills and other expenses. But this, as they say, is only a sad shadow of this story.
Well, the aforementioned sign hangs to this day where it was hung, and all visitors to the building on Voznesensky can see it with their own eyes.
