In the “dashing 1990s”, when, as you know, everyone ran completely naked, and there were no “verticals” yet, bad oligarchs lived in Russia. Among other terrible things, they also promoted loved ones in power and paid them for different services. It's good that there are no such people now! True, some governors for some reason today sometimes receive mysterious transfers of 40 million rubles from very rich people. For example, the head of the Novgorod region Andrei Nikitin.