The arrested mayor of Volgograd was going to buy an island in the Maldives

The prosecutor's office of the Volgograd region intends to charge the mayor of Volgograd Evgeny Ishchenko to the mayor of Volgograd today. "To be charged, Ishchenko will be delivered to the building of the prosecutor's office from the pre -trial detention center, where he is currently located," a source in the regional prosecutor’s office told Interfax.

According to him, Ishchenko will be charged under Article 285 of Part 2, Article 286 of Part 2 (abuse and abuse of authority) and 289 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal participation in entrepreneurial activity).

On Saturday, June 3, the Court of the Central District of Volgograd decided to arrest the mayor of the city of Yevgeny Ishchenko for two months . The prosecutor Vasily Goshchuk insisted on the arrest of the mayor and in support of his requirements presented the report of the operative of the FSB and the decoding of telephone conversations Evgeny Ishchenko on the eve of his detention. According to these data, Ishchenko negotiated one of the islands of the Maldives, he has a yacht worth 3 million euros. " When asked, “how can you hide on a yacht from Volgograd,” Goshchuk assured that “Ishchenko has an airplane,” Kommersant writes on Monday.

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According to the prosecutor, it followed that Ishchenko, "using the connections acquired as a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation," tried to influence the course of the investigation, including through representatives of the Prosecutor General. He allegedly threatened the investigators of the regional prosecutor’s office with physical impact “up to extreme measures”, at the same time “promising him large amounts for the termination of the case.” In addition, according to operational data, the mayor, "having large accumulations", could well hide from the investigation.

Ishchenko himself claims that all the testimonies of witnesses in his criminal case were knocked out by the investigators of the prosecutor's office for political reasons, and lawyers promise to prosecute investigators of the prosecutor's office and the judge.

The head of the Volgograd administration Yevgeny Ishchenko, elected to this position in October 2003, was detained by the FSB officers on May 29. On the same day, the prosecutor of the region Leonid Belyak opened a criminal case against him. The basis of the operational-investigation group of the prosecutor’s office and the FSB, allocated in a separate production of two previously initiated cases of embezzlement by fraud by the management of the Volgograd Communal Systems, as already established, has more than 50 million rubles and tax-free tax firm Tamerlan.

As the deputy prosecutor of the region Mikhail Muzraev specified, "immediately after the mayor, Ishchenko, together with the previously arrested head of the Knoxbank commercial bank Dmitry Sinyukov, created Tamerlan with an extensive chain of stores.

According to the agreement discovered during the search, the mayor and banker were co -owners of the commercial project and shared profit in half. "At the same time, it was established that, according to Ishchenko, to please his personal selfish interests for the construction of stores, land plots in prestigious places of the city were illegally, and the Black Cashier was created from which the officials and deputies were received by the arrested mayor Monthly unofficial salaries.