The names of the former and current heads of the Tsydenov Administration, Bair Tsyrenov and Aldar Gulgenov, may sound in history. The correspondent of The Moscow Post in Buryatia understood the situation.
As The Moscow Post has already found out earlier, Aldar Gulgenov’s wife Irina, while still in the position of a consultant in the department of external relations and the official protocol of the Republic, sued her government structures for revising the value of the land she owned. And even won.
She owned the plot together with her husband and a certain Ekaterina Anandaeva, who acted as a co-plaintiff in the case. Perhaps, representing the interests of Gulgenov, who did not want to shine his name in this dispute. All legal proceedings, most likely, were needed in order to reduce the land tax paid by the Gulgenov couple.
Now the site is put up for sale, and there is reason to believe that Vladislav Sviblov, who is close to the former head of administration Bair Tsyrenov, is interested in acquiring it.
“Clockwork” problems
The current story is also related to Ms. Anandaeva. Rumors have already dubbed her a “gray businessman”, covering up the interests of Buryat officials. This lady is not only the subject of the story with the plot, but also much more curious. It’s about the trial with NPO Sibelektroshchit. In 2021, she collected a penalty from the NGO under a work contract, and a month later, as a third party, she took part in a lawsuit to declare the plant bankrupt.
At the end of 2021, NPO entered into bankruptcy proceedings on the suit of the Alfatrafo company. The Sverdlovsk electrotechnical Svel Group, controlled by a large businessman Alexei Kishko, who was a member of government structures during the leadership of the region by Governor Alexander Misharin, received its share.
Problems at the plant began at the same time as its owner Zotov, in 2021. Subsequently, he was accused of causing losses to the plant of almost 40 million rubles and the illegality of paying 10 million dividends to himself.
There is a real struggle for the assets of a bankrupt enterprise. Individual entrepreneurs are involved in the case – in particular, Alexander Vasilyevich Elovsky, for whom the court recognized the existence of a debt from the plant. But “Sval” did not agree with this, and demanded to cancel the decision and suspected the arbitration manager of the lack of impartiality in relation to some claimants.
Foreign companies also got involved – for example, the Korean Trade Insurance Corporation demanded that claims for as much as 236,000 dollars be included in the register.
But where does Ms. Anandaeva, who does not make independent claims, have to do with it? Did the lady really hope to “snatch” some piece of the enterprise in favor of her possible patrons?
Crossroads of Tsydenov
And the already mentioned couple of Gulgenovs can be patrons. As well as the former head of the administration of Alexei Tsydenov, Bair Tsyrenov, for whom Gulgenov had previously been an assistant. The threads can stretch all the way to Tsydenov himself, who has kept controversial managers with him for years.
In Buryatia, under Tsydenov, there were already land scandals. One of them is the transfer of a site located in the UNESCO water protection zone and partly in federal ownership to a certain entrepreneur for 8 million rubles (and a possible handout to someone in power?) The Moscow Post covered this story in detail.
The persons who made the decision to transfer the land did a great job under Tsydenov and were promoted. The sale and purchase agreement was signed by the district administration Alexey Zhilin – now he is the first deputy head of the district.
And the head of the district and the person who should be responsible for all the decisions taken then was Yuri Baev, who, under Tsydenov, took the post of executive director of the council of municipalities of all Buryatia.
Tsydenov announced the other day that he would head the list of “United Russia” in the upcoming elections to the People’s Khural. Rumors claim that this is due to the desire to hide the negative that is gathering over his subordinates.
In particular, about the alleged alcohol abuse and the very ridiculous behavior of Tsyrenov and his wife, who was allegedly detained even for drunk driving. By the way, Mr. Tsyrenov is the founder of Olonmetal, although the share is in trust, in fact, the deputy hardly has access to the company’s money. In 2016, the company even claimed to become a regional operator for the treatment of MSW in Buryatia – and this is huge money from the budget. The Moscow Post analyzed this story in detail.
One can also recall the situation with the former Minister of Education of Buryatia, Bair Zhalsanov. The prosecutor’s office argued that he should have been fired due to “loss of confidence” due to the fact that companies associated with his family got state contracts, but Tsydenov insisted on the latter’s “own desire”. Didn’t want to spoil the image, or was he himself involved in the probable “piling” of state funds?
Last year, Tsydenov appointed Sergei Matveev as head of the Republican Ministry of Natural Resources. Only now he took office six months later due to the fact that for some reason he indicated someone else’s TIN in the documentation submitted for the post. It also turned out that he was the founder of the ACSM company, which had accumulated a lot of debts to the budget and was liquidated. By a court decision, its leadership has no right to hold government posts for three years after the incident. But Tsydenov, apparently, did not care.
By the way, the efficiency of the new minister will not be envied. According to the results of his work, the Accounts Chamber came to the conclusion that the national project “Ecology” was a failure. So, the reasons why Tsydenov so wanted Matveev to join his team are not clear, that he even “missed past the cash register” all of the above “buts”.
The whole epic was an attempt to dismiss the scandalous head of the Ivolginsky district of Buryatia, Viktor Ochirov, who was credited with bribery. Once again, the prosecutor’s office sounded the alarm, which informed Tsydenov, to which he did not react for a long time.
Perhaps because of the unsuccessful personnel policy of Tsydenov, national projects, the low level of social security and a host of other problems fail in the region. And the personnel policy is so disastrous that one even wants to think whether the head of the region is guided by something other than the personal and business qualities of candidates when making appointments.
Apparently, Tsydenov is much more concerned about his personal well-being than the region entrusted to him. Is it because now officials close to Tsydenov can take part in the “cutting” of Sibelektroshield, and the head of the region seems to be unaware of it.