Alexey Melnikov: "Operation" Cooling "

"Sergey Petrov, the owner of the largest car dealer in Russia, put it up for sale . When the business is sold, the motives can be different. But in this case, at least, criminal prosecution by the authorities Sergei Petrov and, as a result, artificially created difficulties are one of the main reasons for the decision to sell," the publicist writes in the Living Journal .

"In our camp, criminal prosecution as a tool for seizing property in friendly authorities is known from the time of the" case of Yukos. "Then the Euroset followed. After this Bashneft, Michael Kalvi and Vostochny Bank from the same area. And now Rolf.

Why not just buy? Because, firstly, they may not sell. And secondly, the “hot” asset (i.e. the road), when they initiate a criminal case, it “cools” (decreases in price) and can be taken.

A side effect of the operation "cooling" is the corruption of power structures, including courts. Everyone needs to "bring" so that the decision is made.
I’m afraid that with the “Rolf” authorities and people close to them, they turned the operation “cooling”, put him in a gangster refrigerator.

What are the prospects of the economy in which property rights are fiction? And a business created by talent, labor, risk can be taken? What can even be well done in such an economy (not the same as Putin-Titov arranged) amnesty? Questions are rhetorical. Such an economy has no prospects in the competition with other countries where private property rights are protected.

And it is understandable that public companies, state corporations, state -owned banks, businesses based on unnecessary state ordering or combinators who set the air fee (Plato system, labeling) come to replace private businesses in Russia. And the results of the work of such companies are often the creation of various kinds of garbage, with which it is not clear what to do.

All this is not viable. And it will definitely fall apart. "