A polite investigator in black gloves asks a well-dressed citizen in handcuffs to explain what he might have on him, then a thick wad of bills is carefully pulled out of his pocket… So he was caught taking a bribe, another bribe-taker from among the leadership of the Vasileostrovsky district administration, the deputy head Vladlen Rodionov. He was in charge of housing and communal services.
They say that Joseph Brodsky hated Vasilyevsky Island. Like a bad place. It’s depressing, gloomy, and sucks people’s energy. Maybe the poet was wrong, but it can definitely be said that officials who find themselves in large positions here suddenly become like vampires and extract resources from people in monetary terms.
Over the past two years, this is the fourth high-profile arrest in a series of criminal cases related to corruption. For the third year in a row, the Investigative Committee has continually discovered a new plague of bribery and kickbacks in the quiet bureaucratic offices of the Vasileostrovsky administration.
Suffice it to recall the arrest of the beneficiary of the Logicom company Dmitry Nesterenkodirector of the company Ivan Makarchukas well as a former champion of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) and Europe in combat sambo Alexey Veselovzorov. The investigation decided that they might know the answers to the question of where the abducted people went. 20 million budget funds under the contract for sidewalk cleaning concluded between the Logic company and the Vasileostrovsky District Improvement Committee.
Next, a harsh whirlwind of investigative actions swirled the participants in the so-called “cleaning” scandal in its inexorable embrace.
Namely: the head of the district health department Nikita TikhonovGeneral Director of Mirny-55 LLC Mikhail Zadorozhny his businessman accomplices Alexandra Koltysheva And Alexandra Spiridonovaas well as a specialist from the contract service department of St. Petersburg State Budgetary Healthcare Institution “City Clinic No. 3” Alexander Maksimov. They are accused of causing property damage by deception or abuse of trust committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy – clause “a”, part 2 of article 165 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country).
As we already wrote, the chain of detentions later led to the arrest Igor Ponomarev, Deputy Head of the Administration of the Vasileostrovsky District. The trial is only at the very beginning, but as they say on the sidelines, in the shadow of the general trend of clearing out the dominance of corruption in Vaska, 77 million They are unlikely to be forgiven for public money.
About how the head of the Vasileostrovsky district ran and hid, and then went on the run for almost a year Eduard Ilyin, you can film an entire episode of a fashion series. However, there are probably enough criminal episodes in his life without that. Even earlier, we wrote that in narrow circles, Ilyin was well known for the fact that he loved to live large and let others live, turning a blind eye to murky schemes and shady dealings.
Today, the investigation believes that the head of the district received bribes for almost a year through an intermediary for general patronage,
“expressed in the unimpeded execution of contracts for private security activities, totaling at least 5,600,000 rubles.”
His second deputy, as we see, was also caught taking a bribe. Vladlena Rodionova, they took her beautifully. In the toilet. Where did he go to count the bribe – 1.5 million rubles, which he begged from the head of the Terra management company Yulia Fedorova. Vladlen Rodionov oversaw the housing and communal services sector in the Vasileostrovsky district.
The official message from the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg, in particular, states that the greedy bureaucrat demanded a bribe from the director of the Criminal Code “for general patronage”, “promoting a positive solution to issues of interaction with government and law enforcement agencies, as well as lobbying the interests of the company.” As they say, Rodionov begged for money so diligently that the Terra management could not stand it and went to law enforcement agencies. Therefore, Rodionov was detained by employees of the FSB economic security service, which is called “red-handed”.
Today there is one curious point that strangely connects Eduard Ilyin and his well-known deputy Rodionov. Even when Ilyin was arrested, the investigation indicated that he demanded bribes from the victims monthly in the amount 700 thousand rubles. It is noteworthy that in Rodionov’s case a similar amount appears today, the same 700 thousand rubles.
Today the public is asking why the bribe-taker asked for this particular amount? How do corrupt officials decide how much to charge hucksters? “Like, 500 thousand is not enough, a million is bad, let’s settle for 700 thousand. So, what?” – write bloggers.
Our sources claim that it is not a matter of little or much, but today this is the “standard fee”.
“Most often, officials are taken with one and a half million in their pockets– insiders explain, – Everywhere in such structures there is a rider for “gilding the handles”, for every body movement or, conversely, deliberate inaction, there is a price. The price is quite stable, so that traders and businesses can rest assured that in the event of force majeure, the tranche will not rise.”
The Vasileostrovsky court immediately placed the detained official under arrest until June 10. Rodionov went to the same place where the rest of the top of the Vasileostrovsky administration sits. True, he is so far the only one who, when a preventive measure was imposed, obeyed, admitted his guilt and asked for forgiveness. We will find out later how the corruption story that has deprived the region of all its leaders will develop.
