In Kursk, the prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit against a local deputy To Lyudmila ShashenkovaAccording to media reports, the parliamentarian allegedly illegally received compensation for the shelling of her home in the village of Tyotkino, bordering Ukraine, in the amount of almost 7 million. How does she live?
What is the deputy suspected of?
According to the publication “Ploshchad”Shashenkova allegedly filed two applications for compensation at once: for the provision of payments as a citizen whose residential premises were lost as a result of shelling by armed formations of Ukraine, and as a citizen living in a populated area that is subject to such shelling.
The prosecutor of the Glushkovsky district, in turn, filed a lawsuit in the interests of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country). He asks to recognize as illegal two decrees of the Administration of the village of Tyotkino from November 2023 on the right to receive payments to Shashenkova and to return 6.8 million rubles to the budget.
According to the publication, the prosecutor is asking to partially recognize the order of the Kursk Region Construction Ministry from December 2023 as illegal. It approved lists of residents of the region who can claim payments for shelling from Ukraine. This list included two apartments of Shashenkova, the payment for which amounted to 6.8 million rubles.
The prosecutor justified his position by the fact that the deputy, although she owns housing in the village, has long been registered and lives in Kursk, while payments are only due to people permanently residing in the damaged houses. In his opinion, the conditions for a one-time payment for one lost residential property were also violated – the victim allegedly managed to receive money for two residential properties at once. The publication also points out that the local Investigative Committee has begun its investigation into this case.
What is known about Lyudmila Shashenkova
Lyudmila Shashenkova is 64 years old and comes from the village of Tyotkino, which suffered from the Ukrainian Armed Forces strikes. The local press calls her the richest deputy in Kursk. She came to the local legislative power in 2012 and by now has three terms under her belt.
Like every MP, she reported her income annually. The latest declaration that was leaked online dates back to 2021.
At that time, the deputy earned 162.9 million rubles. The people's representative indicated that she owned six land plots with an area of 900 to 4.2 thousand square meters, intended for the placement of trade, public catering and consumer services facilities, running a personal subsidiary farm, building an individual residential building and land use and production purposes (a confectionery shop).
In addition, at that time she owned a residential building with an area of 89.1 square meters and half of a residential building of 196.7 square meters, four apartments, eight non-residential buildings, and a utility block. Lyudmila Shashenkova used a land plot for the placement of garages and parking lots with an area of 450 square meters and a plot for the operation of a building of 306.8 square meters. The deputy also indicated the number of vehicles owned by her – 14.
How Shashenkova made her millions
Shashenkova is a successful businesswoman. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, she is registered as an individual entrepreneur in the catering industry, and also the owner of the firm “Uspekh”, which operates in the same segment. Both the individual entrepreneur and “Uspekh” can easily be found on the government procurement website, and the number of government contracts concluded allows us to speak of the business owner as the queen of government contracts in the catering industry.
Since 2022, her projects have been consistently winning government tenders worth hundreds of millions of rubles. Last year was a record: the entrepreneur's order portfolio totaled more than 650 million rubles. As an individual entrepreneur, she fed Kursk schoolchildren for 353 million rubles, and her “Success” raised 311 million by servicing a local oncology center and a mental hospital. This year, the individual entrepreneur has already managed to conclude contracts worth 200 million rubles.
Shashenkova's commercial activities are rather complicated. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, she opened her first individual entrepreneurship in 2012 and closed it in 2014.
At the same time, she had a company called “Trio”, which sold food products wholesale. It opened in 2002 and closed in 2016, although Shashenkova was a founder only until 2013. Judging by the accounting reports, after her departure, the company practically did not work: the company's accounts were filled with very ridiculous amounts, and before closing, there were only four thousand rubles left in them.
The same company “Success” has existed since 2006, but Shashenkova officially became its owner only in 2021. Before that time, the business was presumably owned by her mother – Vera Kirichenko. Thus, for about eight years (from 2013 to 2021), de jure the woman was not engaged in commerce at all. At the same time, since 1980, she was officially employed as an employee at the State Unitary Enterprise “Canteen No. 61”, which belonged to the Ministry of Property of the Kursk Region. From 2003 to 2020, Shashenkova was listed as its director.
In 2018, when Shashenkova officially only had a director's salary, local newspapers published excerpts from her income declaration for 2017. According to this data, the director of a state enterprise reported earning 50.5 million rubles.
What Shashenkova was accused of in Kursk
In 2018, in the local press Shashenkova was accused that the “fattest” state tenders in Kursk are won by legal entities affiliated with the deputy. In particular, the discussion was about the “Premier” restaurant, where the regional governor's reception was held in 2018 on the occasion of Victory Day. Before that, Shashenkova once bragged in the press that she had been creating this site since 2003 and was very proud of it.
But if you look at the tenders organized by the regional administration during that period, you can see that the competition for organizing the memorial event was won not by Shashenkova or her firms, but by the individual entrepreneur Elena Valeryevna Ivanova. And if you look in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, it turns out that she is the next owner of Shashenkova's firm “Trio”.
A year ago, one of the local firms unsuccessfully tried to appeal to the Kursk Region Arbitration Court challenge the results of the next tender for organizing school meals at Secondary School No. 55 named after A. Nevsky, which went to IP Shashenkova. Then the court sided with the individual entrepreneur and denied the businessmen's claims.
What does Shashenkova's husband do?
Unlike Lyudmila Shashenkova, her husband is not public and does not shine with official income. In the same 2017, when his wife showed earnings of 50 million, he (judging by her declaration) earned a little more than 700 thousand rubles, and in 2021 – only 286 thousand with kopecks. But at the same timem Oleg Shashenkov — official, adviser to the state civil service of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) of the 1st class, head of the Department of Municipal Control of the city of Kursk.
There was a rather strange episode in his career. Before getting to his last job, the deputy's husband worked for 23 years in the Federal Tax Service and made an enviable career there. During his service, he was awarded an honorary diploma of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties, a medal “For Military Merit”, and an honorary diploma of the Kursk Regional Duma. In 2010, he was awarded the title of “Honorary Worker of the Federal Tax Service”.
In July 2008, Shashenkov reached his career peak and became the city's chief tax official – he was appointed head of the Federal Tax Service Inspectorate for Kursk. And exactly five years later – in June 2013 – he was unexpectedly dismissed.
No official reasons were given for the dismissal, but at the time there was gossip in the Kursk pressthat the official's contract might not be extended due to a scandal in the center of which was his colleague, the head of the Federal Tax Service for the Kursk Region, Andrei Labzin. He became a defendant in a criminal case on charges of fraud and abuse of office. The case involved real estate fraud worth hundreds of millions of rubles. Since then, Oleg Shashenkov has gone into the shadows – there has been virtually no public information about his future.
The first mentions in the media appeared only in the fall of 2021, after Shashenkov became the head of the Kursk Municipal Control Department. It seems that the new leader took office very quietly – the press learned about it two months after his appointment, when the relevant information appeared on the city administration website.
Why Shashenkova's firms were idle
The time of her husband's dismissal from the Federal Tax Service strangely coincided with a sharp decline in Lyudmila's business activity. Then she closed her first individual entrepreneurship, and also officially left the list of owners of that very same Trio company, transferring or selling it To Elena IvanovaHowever, it is possible that this is connected with Shashenkova’s parliamentary activities.
During these years — from 2013 to 2021 — the company “Uspekh” participated in 74 public procurements, but did not win a single one. The success of “Uspekh” will begin only after Oleg Shashenkov came to the Municipal Control Department — in 2022. But all these years, individual entrepreneur Elena Valerievna Ivanova won government tenders one after another, regularly bringing tens of millions of rubles to her portfolio at first, and since 2020, several hundred.