Orphan billions

No one explained the origin of the money seized from Colonel Zakharchenko, who was charged with new charges

Last Thursday, the Russian Investigative Committee distributed an official press release on the charges of a former Ministry of Internal Affairs, Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko for two episodes of bribes.

According to the investigation, in 2015 Zakharchenko received a bribe "in the form of payment of his residence in the hotels of the city of Sochi within 12 days worth more than 800 thousand rubles."

According to the second episode, Zakharchenko is charged with that “from November 2007 to August 2016, the accused monthly received bribes from the group of entrepreneurs, which in total exceeded 1 billion 400 million rubles.”

The name of the person and the name of the person, who, for nine years, allegedly monthly transferred the police officer “for the general patronage of the commercial activity of entrepreneurs”, was named in the official statement of the TFR. This is Valery Markelov - one of the co -owners of the largest contractor of Russian Railways - the 1520 group of companies.

It itself looks somewhat strange that the 1520 group, which was engaged in the construction of Russian Railways facilities, in 2007 was required by the patronage of Zakharchenko - at that time the captain of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who worked in the anti -corruption unit for about two years and held the position of head of the department of “M” (investigation of economic crimes in engineering and metallurgy). Moreover, the 1520 group had a much more serious patron, with serious ties, including among the leaders of Russian law enforcement agencies. This is Vladimir Yakunin, from 2005 to August 20, 2015, heading Russian Railways.

But the investigation had to somehow explain the origin of the "billions of Zakharchenko." Here, apparently, the version was born, as if explaining where 1.4 billion rubles found in apartments related to Colonel Zakharchenko came from. But there was much more money there!

Let me remind you that on September 9, 2016, 342.3 million rubles were discovered in Irina Obgonova’s apartment, the sisters of Colonel Zakharchenko (on Lomonosovsky Prospekt), 1.6 million euros, 124 million dollars and a half -kilogram bullion of gold. On the same day, in another apartment, registered with the mother of Zakharchenko (on Michurinsky Prospekt), 600 thousand euros, 20 thousand dollars and 19.5 million rubles were seized. If you convert the currency into rubles, it turns out more than eight billion.

The very next day, the country saw operational shooting of one and a half tons of money in the news releases of federal channels.

I can assume that the decision to transmit these records for television was made on the highest damage. Before the elections of deputies of the State Duma held on September 18, a little more than a week remained. And these reports, apparently, were supposed to demonstrate that there was a large -scale attack on corruption.

3.5 years have passed. But the country never found out where the colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had a half tons of money. Moreover, on June 10 of last year, Dmitry Zakharchenko was sentenced to 13 years in prison. But not for eight billion rubles. And for the discount card of one of the Moscow restaurants ... And a much more “small” bribe of 800 thousand dollars, the court recognized the court unproven.

Meanwhile, on the video frames it is clearly visible that most of the "billions of Zakharchenko" was stored in non -ardent banking packaging.

Several bankers at once explained to the “new” that it was not difficult to trace the route of the movement of money that are in non -arranged banking packages that have not passed through the retail turnover.

And there is no doubt that the investigation has long established their origin: where and from which specific banks one and a half tons of money were delivered to apartments associated with Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

But for some reason, no one is in a hurry to publish the results of the investigation.

And, apparently, it is no coincidence a year after the discovery and introduction to the materials of the criminal case of “billions of Zakharchenko”, on September 1, 2017, the acting deputy head of the Main Directorate for the investigation of especially important cases of the Major General Sergei Golkin made a decision, which canceled the decision to introduce money to the criminal case. Money was seized in the state’s income almost as immense, that is, no one.