

The Insider discovered that the head of the Ministry of Cyphra Maksut Shadaev hides his actual spouse in the declaration. She was involved in a business that receives multimillion -dollar contracts from the government.
Many federal ministers have secret wives on which they record profitable business and expensive property, which they themselves are not supposed to own by law. Among them are the head of the Ministry of Defense Sergey Shoigu , the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov and the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov . It does not lag behind colleagues, as The Insider found out, and the Minister of Communications Maksut Shadaev.
The subordination of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications headed by Shadaev is Roskomnadzor, which fines and blocks the media that allows you to freely disseminate information. So Shadaev can be called one of the main censors of the country.
Shadaev experiences a passion for blocking not only socially significant information, but also information about his family life. According to the declaration, he has two minor daughters, but there is no information about the spouse. It is possible to avoid the official declaration of actual marriage he is forced by the inevitable questions about the conflict of interest in this case.
According to The Insider, the secret wife of Shadaev can be 37-year-old Alexander Melnikov. Several circumstances indicate this at once. Firstly, Melnikova carried on her Volvo XC90 (license plate E8 ** of her77) to the cottage of Minister Lilia Mexovna. Secondly, at the passenger seat of the previous car Melnikova, Shadaev himself was captured.

Thirdly, the parking of this car was paid from the phone number of Sergei Kholkin, the half- brother of Shadaev. We will talk about this relative of the minister further.
Fourth, in the notebook of one of his friends Melnikov is recorded as “Sasha Parking Barin”. It is in the elite LCD Barrin House that Shadaev has an apartment with an area of 101.6 square meters. m and worth about 100 million rubles.
The minister purchased real estate here in April 2019. At that time, he was the vice-president of the state "Rostelecom". Prior to this, the official in different years held the positions of Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Moscow Region, adviser to the speaker of the State Duma, assistant to the head of the presidential administration.
And finally, fifth. Shadaev and Melnikova fly together to rest. The Insider received air booking data, according to which the minister, together with the girl, flew to Adler last year, in the year before last - to the Crimea, and even earlier they went to Yerevan and Riga.

While Shadaev climbed the bureaucratic ladder, Alexandra worked in senior positions in Mediassogy LLC. The company is engaged in the system of the same name monitoring and analysis of the media and social media. "Mediaology" has mastered almost 3 billion rubles in the Lords, including the Minzifra and the Government of the Moscow Region, where the Shadaev was previously oversized with information technology.
It turns out that Schadaev gave large state orders to the company in which his “girlfriend” held a leading position. The Insider Melnikova said that she would not comment on her personal relationship. “In the period 2010–2019. She worked as an administrative director [in "Mediaology"]. She dealt with HR issues, and also ensured the comfort and safety of employees. I was not related to the procedures for the conclusion and execution of the contracts of “Mediaology,” she explained. Melnikov refused to name the place of her subsequent employment. According to The Insider, in 2020 she received a penalty pass from the mincifre.
Alexandra’s father, Viktor Melnikov, worked at the Ministry of Defense of the Ministry of Defense of the Ministry of Defense. The same where the poisons from the group "Novice" were developed. Her mother Elena Melnikova was an employee of the financial department of military missions of the Ministry of Defense.
The Insider installed the stepfather of Minister Shadaev. His name is Igor Kholkin, earlier he was the general director of Timostroy LLC, which was owned by Alexander Volkov, co -founder of Mediaology.
The consolidated brother of the Minister Sergei Kholkin is employed in the Operator-Center-the company is engaged in the labeling of goods. This business is given to the oligarch Alisher Usmanov.