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Prosecutorial roulette
The lawyers of the law earn on the illegal business
Prosecutorial roulette. The scandal around the roofing of the gambling business near Moscow by prosecutors has already entailed the resignation of the deputy director of the FSB. Further rearrangements are also possible: the future of the future prosecutor general Yuri Chaika and the governor of the Moscow Region Boris Gromov are possible. The New Times sorted out what is behind the next turn of the war of the security forces and what is an illegal gambling business today
On February 25, on the day of signing The New Times, the official website of the Federal Security Service still informed the reader that Colonel General Vyacheslav Ushakov was holding the post of deputy director of the FSB, although President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on his resignation on February 21. Ushakov has so far became the most high -ranking victim of the next round of war between the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General’s Prosecutor General and the scandal of roofing by the leadership of the prosecutor's office of the Moscow Region of an illegal gambling business. In early February, on the table to President Medvedev, according to the interlocutors of The New Times, the presidential administration put a photo and video filming how General Ushakov celebrated his 60th anniversary (the anniversary happened on January 28). They celebrated $ 1 million in the general’s favorite restaurant on Rublevka, according to the media, one of the Rublevsky residents told The New Times that a string of elite cars was lined up for the restaurant, and fireworks illuminated the surroundings until late at night. But the presidential patience burst only after draining from the news agency being supervised by Ushakov (TsOS) of the FSB certificate of the criminal case on the roofing of illegal gambling business by high -ranking employees of the Moscow Region Moscow Region. The wording for the resignation was chosen as tough as possible: for "shortcomings in work and violation of official ethics." “You cannot draw conclusions about the guilt before the court decision. It is unacceptable to put pressure on the investigation, attracting the media, ”President Medvedev said on the same day.
Hunting for the prosecutor general
The main person involved in the FSB certificate, which was dispersed in the news agency on February 14, was the deputy prosecutor of the region Alexander Ignatenko. Photos of his feasts with the owner of the network of illegal gaming rooms Ivan Nazarov (from the businessman’s personal archive) immediately dispersed the efforts of the Chekists through the tabloids. The FSB reported 35 searches in 15 cities of the Moscow region, the seizure of 1200 slot machines, documents for real estate in Spain and Hungary, 60 seals of various one-day companies. According to investigators, the monthly income of the gaming network could be from $ 5 million to $ 10 million. The FSB certificate was compiled as if the guilt of both Nazarov himself and prosecutors was already established by the court: the presumption of innocence in the FSB apparently did not hear that the anger of Medvedev caused.
In addition to Nazarov, the defendants of the scandal (detained for two months), Ignatenko and his chief - the regional prosecutor Alexander Mokhov, who is accused of his family vacation in Paris, Prague, Vienna, Milan was paid by the owners of the underground casinos (both were removed from work during the investigation), and the submarine prosecutor Pavel Seedoikin, Odnovsky, also became the submarine. Prosecutor Roman Nizhcheyenko, city prosecutor Noginsk Vladimir Glebov, head of the 15th department of the prosecutor’s office of the region Dmitry Urumov and prosecutor Serpukhov Oleg Bazilyan.
It is noteworthy that before the presidential intervention, the prosecutor’s office, on the one hand, and the UK with the FSB - on the other, for one and a half weeks were engaged in tug of the rope, then closing, then again opening the criminal case. On February 12, the resolution on the abolition of the initiated criminal case was issued by the deputy prospector Vladimir Malinovsky. On February 18, the head of the heads of the head administration of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Andrei Nekrasov, called the statements of the SK that Ignatenko and Mokhov were patronized by illegal gambling institutions, “mockery of the Constitution”.
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The interlocutors of The New Times explain such stubborn resistance of the Prosecutor General’s Office by two factors: firstly, the son of the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika Artem is a longtime friend and business partner of the main person involved in the criminal case of Ivan Nazarov *** Artem Chaika is not the first time at the center of the criminal scandal. When his father, the prosecutor of the Irkutsk region in the 90s, Artem Chaika was known for friendship with the “black raiders” Timur and Bashir Kodzuev. The first was shot in Chita in 2001, the second successfully worked as a State Duma deputy from United Russia from 1999 to 2007. The New Times wrote about this in No. 13-14 of May 14, 2007. Secondly, in June, Yuri Chaika will have to go through the procedure for re-approval in his position, and the scandal around the prosecutor of the Moscow region can be greatly hit according to his plans. Finally, the attack on the prosecutors near Moscow may become a prerequisite for another loud resignation: in any case, the interlocutors of The New Times in the Kremlin administration say that in the ruling tandem the decision to retire the governor of the region Boris Gromov, this should happen no later than May, and on such an information background, the care of the Governor-Sevelawo will look more than more than justified.
Million losses *
Colleagues of Ivan Nazarov on the gambling business are now said: “He was simply unlucky. They made a switchman in a political game. It was necessary to press the prosecutors near Moscow, and through the game business it turned out to be easiest. ” The struggle against underground casinos is also in the capital for the third month: according to businessmen, most of the gaming halls are no longer valid, although on February 23, Vladimir Kolokoltsev promised the “players” new raids. The interlocutor of The New Times Vagif owned a network of 40 gaming halls throughout Moscow and claims that his business remained legal even after July 1, 2009, when officially in Moscow all casinos were outlawed. “Businessmen are always smarter than officials,” says Vagif. - By June 1, all smart people registered their slot machines as a lottery. You come to the hall, buy a book bookmark for 1000 rubles, and you are allowed to play a lottery machine for this for this for free. ” The Law “On Lottery” at that time did not clearly spell out the concept of “lottery equipment”, which the enterprising dealers took advantage of.
The police tried to fight the “lotteries”, seized equipment, sent him for examination at the Central Union Center - the Center for Independent Complex Examination and Certification. And in the center there were immediately their smart people, who offered in advance, without waiting for the excavation of equipment, to “bring” about 200 thousand rubles per hall and stock up on certificates: they say, these machines are actually not gaming, but lottery.
Vagif explains the arithmetic of the gambling business: in the hall usually costs from 50 to 200 devices. From each device, until July 1, 2009, 7 thousand rubles of tax deductions were spent on the budget monthly. At that time, approximately 800 gaming halls functioned in the capital, therefore, according to the most modest estimates, after June 1, about 0.5 billion rubles stopped entering the city budget. “Where did this money go? - The businessman asks a rhetorical question. - The market was rebuilt, 600-700 halls remained in the capital. The average revenue from one hall per month is 3 million rubles, normal - 6 million, a large hall in the city center can bring up to 15 million. From each hall, it was now necessary to give an average of 1 million rubles per roof. Be sure to bring in three instances: the OBEP (the department for combating economic crimes), the Department of the Consumer Market and the ONP (department for combating tax crimes). 300-500 thousand rubles diverged between these instances at the level of the city district, about 200 thousand went “to the city”, another 150-200 thousand - prosecutors, prefectures, district councils. ” According to another interlocutor of The New Times, the monthly revenue of the OEP in each district of Moscow from the roofing of the underground halls of slot machines was approaching 5 billion rubles. "
If we imagine for a second that the prosecutor's office will begin to work quite honestly, Russia will cover Russia in a few days
”After those in power realized that the gaming halls still exist, the budget was suffering, and the policemen had a new feeding trough, a new offensive was undertaken for the gambling business. In July 2010, amendments were already adopted to the Law“ On Lottery ”, which established strict requirements for lottery equipment. Old licenses received before signing amendments by the President should have been valid until January 1, 2011 The business decided not to wait, and by the beginning of autumn, most of the slot machines from the “lottery” turned into “Videoathmates”. The equipment simply began to massively take it to warehouses, the justice of the peace also massively made decisions on disposal, and while the businessmen tried to protest the decision in a higher instance, their property turned out to be already destroyed. True, there was no curiosity without curios. So, on February 24, the Main Investigative Department of the SK opened two criminal cases in connection with the sale of 224 terminals that were seized by investigators were on the responsible storage, but unexpectedly disappeared. “These were our terminals,” businessman Vagif said in a conversation with The New Times. - They did not disappear anywhere, of course. It’s just that the employees of the district administrations realized that they took up the gambling business that we had almost no chance of getting equipment back, so they “pushed” it to the left. ” According to Vagif, Moscow, after the Sobyaninsky sweeps, stopped playing by the end of the year, and in the suburbs, the business more or less successfully went until early February. But the war between the UK and the Prosecutor General’s Prosecutor's Office put there a fat cross on hopes to earn.
What next?
The former high -ranking employee of the Moscow Region prosecutor’s office in an interview with The New Times said: “They write a lot about the fact that the prosecutors near Moscow bathed in luxury and lived without means. It was indisputable. But judge for yourself: the prosecutor's office has the right to supervision, issues permits to conduct unscheduled and other inspections, has the right to refuse to initiate a criminal case. Moreover, not a single type of commercial activity in Russia is carried out completely legally and without violation of the law. This is simply impossible, because normative acts contradict each other. You open the store, an SES employee (sanitary and epidemiological service) comes to you and states that, for example, it is necessary to improve ventilation of the premises. And after it is fire supervision, which requires the air ducts, since fire can spread over them. ” According to the officer, the only instance that is able to resolve the issue is the prosecutor's office. It is cheaper to agree with it than installing insanely expensive equipment that cannot be recouped. “If we imagine for a second that the prosecutor’s office will begin to work quite honestly, Russia will cover Russia in a few days. The banking system built on one-day firms, “left” loans and speculative operations will collapse. Most officials mired in kickbacks and corruption will fall behind bars. All trading stores working with violations and even built on incorrectly decorated land plots will close. Unable to withstand the bureaucratic customs obstacles and the height of real duties, the import system will collapse. Naturally,, supporting criminal stability in the state, the prosecutor’s office does not forget himself, ”says the former employee of the Seagull's department. - Conclusion: the noise around the “roof” of the prosecutor’s office near Moscow is only hardware games of law enforcement agencies. Any employee of the prosecutor’s office, who physically cannot but violate the law, can be held accountable and sent to bars. This is how the system is built, and this is exactly what it is needed to be subordinate to all citizens, and most importantly, the financial flows of the country. ”
Businessmen agree with the prosecutor: “Now everyone is waiting for March 1 and the entry into force of the law“ On the Police, ”says Vagif. - When it becomes clear who leaves, who remains and the lull will come, the negotiations between us and now the police will resume. So far, everyone has been unhappy: for example, I lost $ 2 million at these Kremlin games, the cops are unhappy - they lost the feeders, the landlords are unhappy - the premises are idle, the players are also unhappy. Millionaires will go to the gaming zones to twist the roulette, and not those who lowered 7-15 thousand rubles a month. So the balance will be restored, the halls will still earn, and upstairs will continue to clarify their relationship. ”
The legendary General of the FSB, Colonel General Ushakov, oversaw the investigation, as well as the work of the Center for Public Relations (FSB Central District Hospital). Like his former chef, the ex-director of the FSB, and now the head of the Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, served in Karelia in the 90s (another representative of this Karelian-Pitersky clan Vladimir Pronichev still remains Deputy Director of the FSB, heading the border service). In 1994-1997, Ushakov headed the Safety Service of the Belomoro-Onezhsky Shipping Company, in 1997 he went to work in the central apparatus of the FSB, worked for two years by the plenipotentiary of the President in Karelia, since 2003-deputy director of the FSB. In 1998, he was interrogated in the case of embezzlement of sponsorship of the Karelia Transport Prosecutor's Office, allocated by the Belomoro-Onezhsky shipping company. In 2000, he was accused of one of the mechanics of the shipping company of involvement in the murder of St. Petersburg businessman Dmitry Varvarin, who was considered the main sponsor of the candidate for the post of governor of St. Petersburg Yuri Boldyrev. Already in the early 2000s, working in Moscow, he oversaw the Dvina operation, the purpose of which, according to unofficial data, was the physical elimination of the president of Transnistria Igor Smirnov. True, the former senior official of the President of Moldova told The New Times that it was only about intercepting the cargo of smuggling from an unrecognized republic: after that operation, Ushakov was awarded the Moldavian Order of Stefan Cel Mare. In 2005, Ushakov was called the most likely successor to Konstantin Titov as the governor of the Samara region. In his last declaration of income published on the FSB website, Ushakov indicated that he had earned almost 3.5 million rubles in 2009, owns a land plot and a residential building. At the same time, the same declaration said that the two daughters of Ushakov for the same period did not receive any income, although it is known that they are actively engaged in business, in particular, are the co -founders of Aiers LLC, which owns the cinemas and earns for renting retail space at Sheremetyevo Airport * * The sources of The New Times at the FSB say that they say that they say that they say that they say that they say that they say that Ushakov was the initiator of criminal cases against the owners of East-Line, which owns Domodedovo Airport.
Ilya Volzhsky took part in the preparation of the material