In Chelyabinsk we reported for the protection and helicopter of the governor for 500 million budget rubles

The fighter with corruption Alexei Navalny added problems to the Chelyabinsk governor Mikhail Yurevich, in the region of which the prisoners of the colonies arranged a riot in last week. The opposition noticed that over the past year and a half , 500 million rubles have been spent on the protection of the head of the region and on the purchase of a helicopter. The administration explained that Yurevich’s helicopter was not personal, but a service, and that the current governor is even more modest than the previous one.

“How much is the governor of the helicopter? To ask such questions, it is enough to look at the map of the Chelyabinsk region. Before its remote areas by car - up to 5 hours of driving. The governor is a very mobile person, in the office, as they say, he doesn’t sit,” the first deputy of the Chelyabinsk governor Oleg Grachev told Interfax . According to him, Yurevich air ship is simply necessary to optimize the work schedule.

“He values ​​his working time, therefore, having managed to hold operational meetings, he returns to work literally within 1.5-2 hours and continues the working day,” Grachev noted.

Grachev defended Yurevich from accusations that the governor is supposedly a lover of a beautiful life that he could afford for personal money, but prefers to use budget, as Navalny wrote on his blog . According to the deputy governor, the Yurevich helicopter for 289 million rubles serves not only the head of the region, but also for the good of the entire Chelyabinsk region.

“It is used throughout the fire hazardous period in the forests of the Chelyabinsk region. For example, federal reserves were burning this year, forests were burning near closed administrative -territorial formations. The governor’s helicopter then reconciled. For non -rejuvenating trips, the helicopter was never used,” Grachev said.

"It is unreasonable to distract the police to ensure the personal protection of the governor"

However, a corruption fighter was outraged not only by an expensive helicopter and his maintenance worth 55 million rubles a year, but also by the cost of security of the governor. "Yurevich brings the scribble to white, his love of protection," Navalny notes, listing four multimillion -dollar state orders to protect Yurevich, which the same company won.

"What happens in Chelyabinsk that the governor cannot guard the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as is the case in other regions?" - The fighter with corruption asks a question.

The deputy governor explained: "The Ministry of Internal Affairs is now not endowed with these powers ... After the reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is primarily related to the reduction in the number of employees, it would be unreasonable to distract the police to ensure the personal protection of the governor. A competition was held, a private security enterprise, which, by the way, protects not only the governor."

Grachev also added that Yurevich was not a security record -holder - his predecessor had spent a half times more funds for this article.

According to Navalny’s estimates, 0.57% of all revenues of the region’s budget for 2012 have already been spent on a helicopter and protection of Yurevich. In order to influence the governor, who, incidentally, is a rich man and the owner of the Makfa pasta, Navalny offers the residents of the Chelyabinsk region "to go to Yurevich of the good machine of truth." For this, a Misha-Vertolete leaf was developed (by analogy with the Sasha-Mercedes campaign against the expensive cars of the head of the Astrakhan region).