The Ministry of Construction of Tatarstan is agitated by the detention of the deputy head of the department, Eleonora Abubakirova. Operatives of the economic security department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the investigative committee detained her tonight, searches were carried out in the house of the official. According to BUSINESS Online sources, Abubakirova’s problems are related to her previous job: before the Ministry of Construction, she worked in the gasification fund, where she was also responsible for tenders, and at the same time worked as deputy chief accountant in the fund’s design organization. According to our sources, far from all participants in the project market were satisfied with the distribution of government orders. The details of the investigation are in our material.
Woke up UBEP
Eleonora Abubakirova, 43-year-old Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing of the Republic of Tatarstan, was awakened today not by an alarm clock, but by a knock on the door. At night, she was visited by operatives from the economic security department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Tatarstan – from the department for the suppression of theft of budget funds.
According to BUSINESS Online sources, a search was conducted in her house. Abubakirova herself was taken for interrogation to the 4th, “economic” department for especially important cases of the investigative committee for the Republic of Tatarstan.
The case against Abubakirova is being conducted by investigator Iskander Subaev. Until the fall of 2021, he was deputy head of the department Stanislav Stolyarov, but later left his senior position: it was from him that the safe with documents and seized money of businessman Leonid Baryshev was stolen. The theft from his office was organized by his colleague, investigator Marat Shakirov, who used the “services” of his acquaintances from Almetyevsk. No money or documents were found.
According to sources, the official was detained as a suspect, she can spend the next 48 hours in a temporary detention center.
What is suspected
The news came as a shock to the ministry. Employees of the department, whom the correspondent of our newspaper met at the threshold of the Ministry of Construction, did not know the details. “We learned about the detention from BUSINESS Online,” one of the officials admitted.
At 10 am, a meeting was to be held at the ministry with the participation of the leadership of the department. However, it was rescheduled for 14:00, just because of the detention of Abubakirova.
“The Ministry of Construction, Architecture, Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Tatarstan does not have information about the actions of which Abubakirova is suspected,” the ministry’s press service told us. And this seems to be true.
Abubakirova worked in the Ministry of Construction for six months – she came in December 2022. And before that, she worked for 9 years as Deputy General Director of the Main Directorate of Engineering Networks of Tatarstan, where she oversaw the public procurement sector. Until 2020, the institution was known as the Tatarstan Gasification Fund, which is still headed by Jaudat Minnakhmetov.
Officially, the plot of the investigation is not disclosed. According to our sources, Abubakirova was de facto detained for “part-time employment.” It turned out that while working as a deputy of the GKU, she was also hired as a deputy chief accountant of the fund’s subsidiary – JSC “Department of Capital Construction of Engineering Networks and the Development of Energy-Saving Technologies of Tatarstan” – abbreviated as UKS. This is a design and construction organization of the main department of engineering networks. These organizations even have one registration address – st. Nikolai Ershov, 28a.
According to our newspaper’s sources in law enforcement agencies, Abubakirova’s salary in the gasification fund was a modest 100,000 rubles a month. And in the UKS she earned from 300 thousand to 400 thousand rubles. It was from this amount that the investigator made up the amount of the bribe – 9 million rubles.
For such a “salary”, investigators and operatives of the UBEP believe, Abubakirova provided patronage to the UKS in drawing tenders for the design of facilities, the construction of which was ordered by the gasification fund. In other words, the fund played tenders formally, and gave orders, in fact, to itself.
Sources do not tell what objects can be discussed. Only two details are noted: the construction was planned in the regions, other design organizations were also announced, but the orders were still received by the engineering network construction department. One of the sources of our newspaper claims that there were rumors that a number of design organizations with influential beneficiaries were extremely unhappy with this situation.
In the former gasification fund itself, our publication was told that they do not believe in suspicions against Abubakirova. “We believe that all the accusations are taken from the ceiling, everything else is without comment. How can I characterize it? The smartest, most responsible person,” Evgeny Zakhvatov, Deputy General Director of the Main Directorate of Engineering Networks of the Republic of Tatarstan, told our correspondent.
What is known about the official
Abubakirova is 43 years old, she comes from the Perm Territory, graduated from the local state university, and arrived in Kazan in the late 90s. From 2001 to 2010, she worked at Sberbank as the head of the support and service department for individuals and legal entities. In 2010, Abubakirova was appointed deputy head of one of the Perm districts, where in three years she became first the head of the financial department, and then the first deputy head of the district. In 2011, she graduated from KFU, and later, in 2018, she received her education at KSEU.
Since 2013, she worked as deputy head of the gasification fund of the Republic of Tatarstan, for another two years she was deputy general director of the Kazan engineering networks department, and at the end of 2022 she joined Marat Aizatullin’s team in the Tatarstan Ministry of Construction.
Abubakirova – Candidate of Economic Sciences, Honored Economist of the Republic of Tatarstan. According to BUSINESS Online, she owns a Mercedes GLK car.
The official is divorced, her marriage fell on the period of work in the Perm region. The experts of our newspaper even added her to the list of eligible brides this year. “Meeting Abubakirova is not easy: she loves to travel around Russia, and early in the morning, before work, she goes to tennis. The rest of the time he spends in his works, ”they told about her.
Now, unclear prospects await the official: according to our sources, the ICR will soon decide whether to ask the court to choose a measure of restraint for Abubakirova. And in the future, she faces up to 12 years in prison. This is the maximum punishment under the article on taking a bribe.