Saw 3.4 billion and hang it all on the 77-year-old GRANDMA. Governor Boris Dubrovsky's recipe

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The recent spring purge of the gubernatorial corps carried away five governors. As a typical example of the usefulness of this type of officials for society, let us talk about one of them, the governor of the Chelyabinsk region, Boris Dubrovsky. He is one of the defendants in the Panama dossier, according to which, already being the head of the Chelyabinsk region, he turned 12 million rubles through his offshore company.

The scandals with Dubrovsky's "offshore adventures" do not end there. Dubrovsky used the services of the Swiss bank BPER ("Private Bank of Edmond de Rothschild"). It was the account in BPER that the head of the Chelyabinsk region used for money transfers. Dubrovsky is a native of Magnitorgorsk and for a long time was the general director of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine.

After his election as governor, Dubrovsky "dragged" to Chelyabinsk not only firms from Magnitogorsk, but also local officials. Formally, after the appointment as the head of the region in September 2014, the assets of the former director of Magnitogorsk Dubrovsky were transferred to the management of his son Alexander, but, of course, Dubrovsky Sr. still personally controlled his business. And relatively recently, in 2018, the Antimonopoly Service opened a case on the conspiracy between Yuzhuralmost JSC and Governor Dubrovsky personally in 2018. Billions of rubles are involved in the case.

Here is the conclusion in the case of the Federal Antimonopoly Service:

In this document, which clearly and with references to the data of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia describes the corruption activities of Boris Dubrovsky himself, and his subordinate, the head of the Ministry of Roads and Transport of the Chelyabinsk Region, Dmitry Mikulik.

The document is extensive, it contains many facts and figures indicating that during the governorship of Boris Dubrovsky, Yuzhuralmost, which is part of the governor's power group, found itself in a privileged position, and its competitors were almost completely removed from public procurement.

The very essence: when Boris Dubrovsky became the governor of the Chelyabinsk region in 2014, the share of Yuzhuralmost in road government contracts was only 9% of the total amount of purchases. In 2018, Yuzhuralmost has already cut 96% of the region's road money. For several years, the Chelyabinsk OFAS has received complaints from the monopolist's competitors, who were removed from bidding on far-fetched reasons.

Consolidation of lots became typical: Mindor, headed by Dmitry Mikulik, combined orders from different districts of the region. Naturally, only Yuzhuralmost could take a lot for a billion because of the huge amount of collateral. The results are clear: competition in this area in the region is killed, the roads are broken, and the budget has lost about 20% of travel money, which could have been saved in fair bidding by reducing prices by competing participants.

In fact, this money was stolen. An important role in this was played by Tatyana Solonchak, a native of Magnitogorsk, the common-law wife of Governor Boris Dubrovsky. This couple has a child - in the girl's birth certificate, Boris Dubrovsky is indicated as the father, and all personal data coincide with the data of the governor of the South Urals.

So, what role did Tatyana Solonchak play in the relationship between Governor Dubrovsky and Yuzhuralmost? The name of Tatiana Solonchak has already been announced during the court hearings in the case of State Duma deputy Vadim Belousov and his mother-in-law Margarita Butakova, on which the governor's power group tried to hang road cuts.

As a result, 77-year-old pensioner Margarita Butakova was hospitalized. And now the elderly hostage in the case of embezzlement by the governor's group of 3.4 billion rubles is being held in a pre-trial detention center.

Of course, it is naive to believe that Dubrovsky received some 34 million rubles in the process of cutting the region's road money - given that his apartment in the center of Moscow overlooking the Kremlin costs half a billion.

Let's ask a rhetorical question: what will happen next with Governor Dubrovsky? If the federal antimonopoly service does not merge, the antitrust conspiracy case could smoothly move to the offices of the Investigative Committee. Or is there a solution that will close this issue with the necessary amounts? Well, let's see where Boris Dubrovsky ends up - in Switzerland or in more severe places, for example, in Magadan.