The confidant of the Governor of the Leningrad Region, Alexander Drozdenko, and the head of the administration of the Vsevolozhsky district of the Leningrad Region, Andrei Nizovsky, officially resigned. Why an official with a promising political career suddenly left the race, the editors of the online publication found outKompromat Group“
The circle is narrowing
The fact that security forces may have serious questions about Andrey Nizovskywe have repeatedly assumed in our past publications. First of all, this was due to a large campaign by law enforcement officers to encircle the governor of the 47th region – Alexandra Drozdenko.
As we have already written, in a relatively short period of time, various high-ranking officials, heads and deputies of several committees, and even an entire ex-vice governor found themselves in the investigators’ offices. About Andrey Nizovsky was mentioned as the governor’s confidant, and many of our insiders believed that they would soon “come for him” too. Too many scandals have happened on Vsevolozhsk land over the past two years.
Today there are several more versions of why successful Andrey Nizovsky abruptly left his post.
Version one. Government contracts.
Just a few days before Nizovsky’s resignation, his deputy resigned from his post Alexey Kondrashin, who since 2016 has been heavily involved in government contracts in the district administration. This is an old, proven, one might say, “combat” comrade Andrey Nizovsky and on government contracts, as they say, “he ate the dog.” As the media wrote, at the beginning of his civil service, Kondrashin headed the regional MKU “Unified Customer Service”, and then moved to the deputy’s chair. According to rumors, he owned several construction companies that regularly received these very government contracts and orders, without fear of any competition. According to the official version, Kondrashin’s employment contract has expired; according to the unofficial version, the second person after Nizovsky simply quit because he knows too much.
On this occasion, the enlightened residents of the Vsevolozhsk region have already made a gloomy joke: “His knowledge would be in the ears of the prosecutor.” Perhaps these are the ears he is trying to avoid Alexey Kondrashinbecause his testimony can send him and Andrey Nizovsky next door to the former head of the district administration Alexander Sabalenkoregarding which we already wroteThe Prosecutor General’s Office has already approved the indictment.
If we remember that before his appointment as the head of the oh, what a difficult (!) Vsevolozhsk region, Andrei Aleksandrovich headed the very “tasty” government procurement committee of the 47th region, and all budget money passed through his big hands, then the version with government procurement and its dark spots has right to exist.
Version two. Earth.
Vsevolozhsk district is not only the “Rublevka” of St. Petersburg oligarchs, high-ranking officials and drug lords. In addition to the golden land, bureaucratic ambitions and profitable projects with interests of varying degrees of severity are growing like mushrooms here. But these projects, whatever one may say, are still directly connected with the fabulously valuable Vsevolozhsk land.
As we already mentioned in one of our recent materialsmessengers Alexandra Bastrykina They quickly sank their teeth into the famous scandal with SNT “Osinka”, which pulled behind it very interesting schemes. Former head of the district Alexandra Sabalenko he is accused of issuing decrees that removed a large tract of land from the jurisdiction of the district administration. The destination of the land is large families. But in fact, the plots turned out to be registered in the name of relatives and acquaintances of the defendants in this scandalous criminal case. The plots were then divided into smaller plots and sold at market prices. This soon added a scandal with the lands of the Ministry of Defense, which we also discuss in detail wrote.
It is noteworthy that in March, Andrei Aleksandrovich officially proposed to allocate unused lands… of the Ministry of Defense for the families of SVO participants. The initiative was presented at a meeting of the regional government. Nobody argues that this is a great deal! However, the scheme for identifying these areas seemed painfully familiar to many.
It was assumed that the plots of land would be transferred to municipalities, which, in turn, would transfer them to the status of individual housing construction.
“Cadastrate them, connect them with roads and electricity and hand them over to new owners. The ultimate goal is this: the SVO participant signs a contract, and his family automatically receives a land plot.”— shared his opinion Andrey Nizovsky with the newspaperKommersant“
It is interesting that for some reason the head of the Vsevolozhsk region kept silent about how many elite villages were built on those very lands of the Ministry of Defense. Andrei Aleksandrovich did not share with journalists the information that today in cottage villages where veterans and other beneficiaries should live, officials and their households are tightly seated, just like the “orphans” of the shy thief Alchen around a barrel of cabbage.
Since the story with Sabalenka is not over yet, it is possible that the investigation already has some interesting material.
Version three. Construction.
This version is directly related to the second. In June 2023, rumors began to spread through the corridors of the Leningrad region government. They were, to put it mildly, ugly. According to rumors – Andrey Nizovsky involved in fraud in the construction market. Let us remind you that we are talking about the very searches that the UBEP operatives came to conduct, and their meticulous attention to the person of another deputy of Nizovsky – Nikolay Karetkin.
The operational actions were related to the scandalous construction of the Yaninsky Cascade-4 residential complex in the village of Yanino-1. As we have written repeatedly, the young prosecutor Sergey Zhukovsky he is rapidly fulfilling his promise to the Federation Council – to deal with all the shameful unfinished projects in the Leningrad region. The Yanino Cascade is just from that same sad list. Nikolay Karetkin – protégé Andrey Nizovskythey previously worked together at Rosreestr.
Some insiders believe that even during his working career, in Rosreestr, Nizovsky (allegedly at the urgent request of important people), put the lands of the Ministry of Defense, lands of the forest fund and state farms on cadastral registration, without carrying out land surveying. That is, according to the documents, there was land, but where it was and what the boundaries of the plots were, in fact, only Andrei Alexandrovich himself and his people knew.
An interesting moment – as they say, former plots of agricultural land suddenly found themselves within the boundaries of large settlements – Toksovo, the village of Bugry, the new town of Kudrovo and, in fact, Vsevolozhsk. The purpose of the plots is classic – construction of residential and commercial buildings.
Adding a spicy note to this story is the fact that the man sitting silently in the pre-trial detention cell Mikhail Moskvin, suddenly in July of this year made a deal with the investigation. This means that the former vice-governor, who was responsible for construction and housing and communal services, has spoken. He probably said a lot of interesting things that the investigation carefully left him in the cell until late autumn, extending the preventive measure.
Version four. Policy.
Over the past six months, talk about the imminent resignation of the governor of the Leningrad region has become increasingly urgent. Among other news, a rumor was actively circulated that Drozdenko’s replacement would be the head of the administration of the Vsevolozhsk region Andrey Nizovsky. It is not clear where such reasoning came from, but some telegram channels wrote that (we quote):
The fact that Andrei Aleksandrovich himself (probably until recently) was counting on a great political career is illustrated by the fact that the official media of the Leningrad region regularly reported that “with the support of the governor of the Leningrad region Alexander Drozdenko and the head of the Vsevolozhsk region Andrei Nizovsky, the city of Enakievo was able to get this and that.”
Yenakievo is a city sponsored by the Leningrad region in the new Russian territories, and Drozdenko devotes a lot of time to its restoration. However, if Drozdenko’s trusteeship noticeably increases his political rating, then Nizovsky, surrounded by scandals, trips with gifts did not seem to help much, because, as regional political channels wrote: “Nizovsky has dropped significantly in the ranking compared to last year.”
However, knowledgeable people claim that the point here is not at all in the rating, but in the fact that Drozdenko is very tired of hearing the words “successor” and “heir.” It is no secret that a simple axiom is well known among the elite – such names are a red rag for any current head, and at the slightest blow of the political wind, they turn into targets, and the political career of a daring replacement into a pumpkin.
Simply put, Drozdenko, with a certain degree of probability, decided to get rid of his protégé. Statements in the semi-official channels of the head of the region also speak in favor of this. Here’s what they write:
“A good version, but clearly not relevant. Undoubtedly, the head of the administration of the Vsevolozhsk region has very good weight and authority in the region. But still, the Leningrad region is not limited to the Vsevolozhsk region, and on the scale of the entire territory of the subject, the political weight and recognition of Andrei Nizovsky, with all due respect, is clearly not enough yet.”
So Nizovsky’s departure from his post is tactical. However, the political elite will still receive dividends from this story, observing a serious behind-the-scenes struggle for the place of head in the largest district of the Leningrad region.