On deliveries of the Ministry of Defense, the daughter of the general responsible for logistics earned money.
Volunteers help provide the soldiers with the necessary things. Not always enough forcibly sent to the army and food, many are forced to buy food.
For many years, Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov was responsible for the material support of the armed forces. At the end of September, he was transferred to another position.
General Bulgakov has been engaged in logistics support since the 90s. In 1997 he was appointed First Deputy Chief of Logistics of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, in 2008 – Chief. Since 2010, he has served as Deputy Minister: first to Anatoly Serdyukov, then to Sergei Shoigu.
As Metla found out, Bulgakov’s 46-year-old daughter’s name is Marina, after marriage she took the surname Meshkova.
In 2009, Marina Meshkova became a co-founder of Commonwealth of Veterans LLC. In 2018, the company was liquidated, but before that it managed to earn 20 million rubles on public procurement, including the supply of juices, pasta, tea, biscuits and dried fruits to the Ministry of Defense. At that time, Meshkova’s father was in charge of logistics support.
The firms of business partners of the general’s daughter also earned on contracts with the army. So, Irina Rudova, through her Agrokoopprodukt LLC, received contracts from the Ministry of Defense for the supply of coffee and flour. Mikhail Rudov, through GTP Vozrozhdenie, supplies the army with compotes, cucumbers and chocolate.
Meshkova also had another company – Rosprodukt. Its CEO Roman Babaev, through his firm “Aristo” in 2018
concluded a contract with the military unit near Moscow for the supply of wheat flour biscuits.
According to the last published declaration of Dmitry Bulgakov, he received more than 15 million a year. Among his property is an apartment of 109.5 square meters. According to Metla, she is in a house on Academician Anokhin Street and has been removed from Rosreestr.
The general’s dacha in the village of Buzlanovo near Novorizhskoye Highway is also classified: a plot of 23 acres and a house of 622 meters. The cost of suburban property is about 100 million rubles.
Bulgakov’s wife Alla drives her Lexus RX to this dacha. Previously, the license plate of the car was issued to Andrey Meshkov. This is the general’s son-in-law. He is attached to the structure of the Ministry of Defense – he manages a branch of the Central Military Clinical Hospital. A.A. Vishnevsky.
Another daughter of General Bulgakov’s name is Olga, she became Lukyanova after marriage. Olga acted as a co-founder of Golden Autumn LLC. Her business partner also happened to be an army contractor. Andrey Roslyakov, the co-founder of Golden Autumn, since the appointment of General Bulgakov as chief logistics officer, through his peasant farm “Pchela” began to sell potatoes, cabbage and carrots to the Ministry of Defense
The military budget of Russia increased year by year. This year, spending on national defense has grown by a third, to almost 4.7 trillion rubles. In total, over the 21 years of his reign, Vladimir Putin spent more than $1.1 trillion on the army. (about 69 trillion rubles at the current rate).