Not all bribes are smooth

Gatchina officials threatened the dismissal of the school principal, but they themselves were under the blow of the security forces

The reason for the audit was the publication in the media, which stated that the director of the school in the village of Lukashi of the Gatchinsky district, Maxim Mironkov, was threatened with dismissal for refusing to accept poor -quality repairs in the educational institution. Mironkov was not afraid of threats. Moreover, he announced possible facts of corruption in the district education system. The information was confirmed, but the investigating authorities suggest that the main events are still ahead.

Employees of the Investigative Department of the IC of the Russian Federation for the Leningrad region, together with the operatives of the regional FSB, detained an official involved in repairs in schools and kindergartens of the Gatchinsky district, at the crime scene with red -handed. According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Leningrad region, on the evening of July 16, at the house on the Krasnoselsky highway in Gatchina, the head of the procurement department of the Gatchinsky district administration received a bribe of 150 thousand rubles from a businessman of one of the companies for guaranteeing the choice of his company as a contractor at several facilities and unhindered passage of all stages of the competitive procedure for the conclusion of state contracts.

The suspect was procedurally detained for two days. On July 18, in the Gatchina City Court, the charge stated the imprisonment of the official for two months, but the court elected house arrest as a preventive measure.

During the hearing, the names of Georgy Vasiliev (head of the procurement department of the district administration) and individual entrepreneur Artem Zakharov were heard.

Artem Zakharov is not only a successful businessman, but also an assistant to the deputy of the regional Zaks from United Russia Sergey Konyaev. Since 2020, according to SPARK, IP Zakharov often became a contractor when performing repair work in educational institutions of the Gatchina district. For a year and a half, he received state contracts for repair work at the Gatchina Lyceum No. 3, in the Siberian gymnasium, in the Nikolskaya, Kobralov, Kobrinsky and Lukashevsky schools. In the last educational institution alone, the entrepreneur was entrusted with work for 5.8 million rubles, and in conjunction for all facilities - by several tens of millions.

According to the “new” information, it can be assumed that not all repairs of IP Zakharov managed to carry out well and in a timely manner not only on paper, but also in practice. However, only at a school in Lukashah, the director refused to accept from the contractor and pay for work, the quality of which did not suit him or his parents or specialists (Maxim Mironkov ordered and paid for an independent examination from his own pocket).

After the refusal, according to the head of the educational institution, the district officials put him before the choice: either he signs everything that they demand, or leaves his post of his own free will.

The director did not agree to any of the options. In response, as Mironkov says, they called him from the regional education committee and promised him to "dismiss him under an article with which they would not take anywhere in the Leningrad Region." Perhaps this would have happened if, after the publicity of the conflict in the media, the SU of the RF IC of the Russian Federation in the Leningrad region and the Gatchina city prosecutor’s office intervened in the situation (from July 9, it has been checking the execution of the contract for the renovation of the Lukashevskaya secondary school).

It was not possible to get the comments of Artem Zakharov “New”: from July 16, a businessman and a deputy’s assistant disabled all the phones.

A criminal case against George Vasiliev under Art. 290 h. 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Receiving a bribe” The district department of the UK in Gatchina excited on the same day.

Official message of the UK in the Leningrad region
“In the criminal case, investigative actions and operational-search measures are continued, aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the crime and involvement of the suspect in similar crimes of a corruption nature.”

The suspect was procedurally detained for two days. On July 18, in the Gatchina City Court, the charge stated the imprisonment of the official for two months. However, the court chose house arrest as a preventive measure to Vasiliev.

Parents of students of the Lukashevskaya secondary school went to the court building on Sunday. In their hands they held posters with the words "We demand further investigation." On the eve of the detention of George Vasiliev, mothers of schoolchildren visited the administration of the President of the Russian Federation. According to them, today's events are largely the outcome of the battle of parents for school in Lukasha.

“Many of the documents with which the investigation work today was transferred to the presidential administration, and from there, according to our information, to the Investigative Committee,” said Milan Guseva, representative of the Parental Committee of the Lukashevsky secondary school. “Corruption schemes never become close to one person, we know the whole chain, shared our knowledge and hope that further detention on this matter is not far off.”