Vadim Pomsky - the criminal "Napoleon" of the Oryol region. International Palace of the Governor of Potomsky Potomsky and Matviyenko family ties

The wife and children of the acting governor are due to arrive next weekend.
Potomsky himself announced this during the first press conference. Said he wanted house with playground and barbecue. That his household had already met Orel, walked around the city, went to the cinema in Grinn, and that he and his wife managed to discuss which school and kindergarten to send their children to.
By the way, the experience of married life of 41-year-old Vadim Potomsky is 22. He married while still sophomore cadet shortly before his 19th birthday.
Some details of the private life of Potomsky OrelGrad found in the magazine "Bryansk theme". It is produced by a journalist and entrepreneur Natalia Timchenko with which we have known for a long time. When our interim tried to become the Bryansk governor, she published a long interview with him in her magazine, where she revealed "human image" Potomsky.
The directness of his answers is disarming.
Here is what our acting director then told Natalya Timchenko about Natalia Potomskaya.
— We met Natasha when her parents moved to Mary from Ashgabat and she came to our school. I was in ninth grade then, and she was in eighth grade. I liked the new girl right away. We became friends. And then I went to Leningrad ...
- But the friendship continued nonetheless?
- Distance did not become a hindrance. We wrote letters to each other. Two per day! We saved our correspondence and still sometimes look at it.
- When did you decide to get married?
- Natasha graduated from school with a silver medal and entered the Ashgabat Medical Institute, and I was in my second year at the school. Once my duty coincided with the duty of my father.
And so I plucked up courage, went into the rest room of the duty officer and blurted out from the threshold: “Dad, I want to get married!” And he immediately replied: “Marry!”
So on July 21, 1991, two weeks before my nineteenth birthday, Natasha and I became husband and wife. And Natasha was transferred to the Leningrad honey.
- Did her parents react so quickly and positively too?
- Let's start with the fact that they knew about our long friendship, they knew my family. Natasha's father, however, frightened her: “They will send her husband after school to Rybachy Island, where it is cold and hungry, then you will remember your parents' house!”
But Natasha was not a shy one.
- And as a married cadet, were you given indulgences, dismissal to your wife?
- Yes, then we had the opportunity to let the "married" go home to spend the night. Every day. I was a foreman and could not leave every evening, but still I spent most of the nights at home. Three years later, the eldest daughter was born. Natasha graduated from four courses and left the institute.
- Did you regret that your career as a doctor did not work out?
- She chose a family. Natasha is an excellent mother of three children, wife, hostess. I'm sure she would make an excellent doctor. The knowledge she received has helped and continues to help her in her life more than once. Our children grew up with common childhood illnesses, and she always knew how and with what to treat them. And today he talks with practicing doctors almost on an equal footing.

Natasha is always there and I am sure that she will support any of my undertakings. I always have the final word and it is never disputed. If not for Natasha, my life could have been very different. I would not have reached the heights in business and politics that I have conquered.
For me, the family is a solid foundation, my spiritual organization, which pushes me to exploits and restrains me from doing wrong things.
Every year I am convinced that I was very lucky with Natasha. She is exactly the woman I need.
The full interview can be read on the Bryansk Theme magazine website. There are many more interesting things.

During recent years the name of the governor of the Oryol region, Vadim Potomsky, no, no, yes, and it pops up in some kind of criminal context. Then he's in live evasively answers the direct question of TV and radio presenter Vladimir Solovyov: “Are you a bandit?”, then appears in the company of individuals with a criminal past, then invites citizens to work, who are then sent to prison.

Gennady Zyuganov's comrade-in-arms is actually very afraid of going to prison. Knows the details. The fact is that his friends knowingly introduced him to the peculiarities of life and life behind bars, which Vadim Potomsky once personally told the correspondent of the Rosbalt agency about. Here is what a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation said about the stories of his acquaintances and about places not so remote:

“I have not been to prison. But, as they say, do not renounce the bag and the prison. I am 40 years old, and I can’t say that I have a lot, but I have friends who have been in places of deprivation of liberty. What they say is horrendous." As for the bag and the prison, the governor said quite rightly ...

Friends criminals

Now Vadim Potomsky is almost 45, but he still does not want to go to prison, although he does not forget his criminal friends. As soon as he appeared in Orel, he was photographed against the backdrop of the regional administration building with Sergei Antoshin, his close Bryansk colleague. Here is what one of the federal publications wrote about him in 2003: “34-year-old Antoshin worked for the FSB for a long time, then became personal security guard Governor Yuri Lodkin.

In January 2000, the governor appointed Antoshin the head of the information and analytical department of the regional administration. A criminal case against an official of the FSB of the Bryansk region was opened in November 2001. Chekist Antoshin, leaving the office of his friend, the "alcohol king" Oleg Rozanov, noticed the FSB outside at the gate. And then he handed over his colleagues to a businessman. And then the friends quarreled, Rozanov wrote a statement to the law enforcement agencies against Antoshin, and the FSB officers submitted to the court the wiretapping records of two former comrades, where the fact of disclosure of state secrets and betrayal was recorded. And Antoshin received four years in prison. True, he served only 13 months and is now a communist and a deputy of the Bryansk Regional Council.

Unlike " United Russia”, for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, a criminal past is not an obstacle to nomination for deputies. The current governor of the Oryol region, Vadim Potomsky, considers him one of the citizens "whose names and surnames I can name with honor and dignity." And as for criminality, so, a trifle ... “This is Antoshin Sergey Sergeevich,” Potomsky told reporters, “the man who was near me in this Bryansk campaign. A man of honor, not a coward. Yes, there were all kinds of stories, but that's life." For Vadim Potomsky, who likes to talk about officer honor, is the betrayal of comrades in the service a normal part of life?

Again about Yorsha

Other "all sorts of stories" unexpectedly surfaced when Vadim Potomsky invited Andrey Yersh, his classmate at the anti-aircraft missile school and, as it turned out later, the leader, to work as the head of the state institution of the Oryol region "Orelgoszakazchik". This institution is one of the most corrupt in the region.

Only on the line "Road Fund" planned to "master" 3 billion rubles. He failed - in the fall of 2014, operatives detained him right in his office and transferred him to the North. Announced at the end of January 2017 by the verdict of the Arkhangelsk Regional Court, Andrey Yorsh, who led an organized criminal group of current and former employees of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Arkhangelsk Region, was found guilty of "covering" underground gaming clubs and mediation in giving a bribe. The former police lieutenant colonel received a serious term - 9.5 years of strict regime.

And Governor Potomsky only complained: “Unfortunately, I will tell you objectively and honestly: I did not know about this story. If I had known about this story, Andrei would not have worked here ... This is my cadet, we studied together from the first year, when we were 16 years old, I was a foreman of the battery, he was a cadet of the second platoon ... He came to me. I invited him to work, no one imposed him on me ... Everyone who works for me in the government of the Oryol region was personally invited by me. Especially the level of deputies. Andrei worked in the police, in police structures, in the Economic Crime Department. in economic areas.

For reasons that the organization in which he worked, Oryolgoszakazchik, passes through it a colossal amount of budget money, I invited him as a specialist so that all these various left-wing options would not go anywhere. A story surfaced that... He didn't tell me. If he had called her to me, he said: “Sergeant, that’s what they called me, Vadim, there is such a story, such a skeleton in the closet, I would not take him to work.”

In fact, the argumentation of Vadim Potomsky in this case is designed for very gullible people. After all, this is far from the only personnel miscalculation of the governor of the Oryol region.

Mikhail Sokolovsky

Well, the most notable criminal associate of Vadim Potomsky, the person whom he repeatedly publicly called “his friend”, with whom he traveled to the Patriarch of Serbia and filmed for TV at the Russian-Slovenian business forum, was Mikhail Ivanovich Sokolovsky. This is the same citizen who, at a meeting of the Oryol City Council, spoke about the monument to Ivan the Terrible, which costs 25 million rubles to erect. Recall that the money "for the monument" was collected, but, according to Vadim Potomsky, it cost several times less. Where did the difference in 20 million go? This could be answered by Sokolovsky, a man with three convictions, including for.

It all started in 2005, when Mikhail Ivanovich was the vice-governor of Koryakia. Then the court of the Tigilsky district of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug sentenced him to one and a half years in prison - for disrupting heating season with abuse of office and the disappearance of money paid to a certain company for fuel. In May 2005, it turned out that Sokolovsky had previously worked for the recipient company. On July 21, 2005, the court sentenced him to three years in prison. And then a third conviction followed: in 2005, the Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow, Mikhail Sokolovsky, Potomsky's future friend, was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison in a strict regime colony for fraud on an especially large scale.

Where did the communist Potomsky get such a craving for criminal personalities? After all, there was also a certain Vladimir Makarchuk, who in 2014 was invited by Governor Potomsky to lead the regional state property department. But then it turned out that he was a fraudster with a fresh conviction and a fine of half a million rubles. Then, after the scandal with the sealing of the office, Vice-Governor Mikhail Babkin, who was in charge of the economic bloc, quickly fled the region.

“Tell me who your friend is, and I will tell you who you are,” the proverb says. At the very beginning of the article, we noted that Gennady Zyuganov's henchman, Potomsky, really does not want to go to jail. And he does not want to forcibly leave the governor's seat. And he even protested against the fact that the question of trust or distrust is raised by the president, and not by the abstract "people."

In an interview posted on the website of the Leningrad regional branch of the Communist Party, he asked: “What should the governor do to lose confidence? And if the people elected him, then why does the President make the decision to lose confidence?” That's why he accepts, citizen Potomsky.

BUT last news from Orel, they are completely amazing, the person involved in a high-profile criminal case, the general director of the Orel Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending (AHML), 97.4% of whose shares are the property of the region, Sergey Kochergin, was also hired with a criminal record. The defendant openly stated that he came to this position at the invitation of the governor of the Oryol region.

In order not to be unfounded, we will cite a specific segment from the decision of the Oryol Regional Court dated November 9, 2016: “By a court verdict, Kochergin S.A. found guilty of committing a crime, under subsection. «in» h. 2 Article. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Assignment or embezzlement, that is, theft of another's property entrusted to the guilty, committed using one's official position”), with the imposition of a sentence of imprisonment for a period of 3 years suspended with a probationary period of 3 years.

As it turned out later, Mr. Kochergin had also previously been convicted in Orel, and the governor of the region simply could not have been unaware of this. We note this in case the official again insists that "I am not me and the house is not mine." After all different kind negative news about the governor comes up every week. And there is no need to carry out a journalistic investigation in order to find out about all the pitfalls of the governor of the Oryol region. Only, after all, someone appointed the director of Sergei Kochergin. In addition, all companies that have ever been associated with the "director" won all tenders and received the most tidbits. Is it because, as it turned out later, Kochergin, previously convicted of embezzlement, liked Potomsky because of his ability to properly distribute financial flows?

But if Sergei Kochergin was previously convicted under Article 160 Part 2, now, as they say, he has upgraded and now he is charged with at least parts 3 and 4 of the same article. It turns out that the staff selected by the governor does not stop there. And in general, the Oryol region is a whole organism in which the distribution of budgetary funds takes place every day. The money is transferred to the regional leaders, according to the protocol of interrogation of the director of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise Ritual and ritual services of the city of Orel, Ekaterina Sagittarius, in bundles or bags with alcohol.

But with the advent of the team called by Mr. Potomsky, more modern technologies. The same Mrs. Sagittarius noted in her testimony: “Sometimes received from entrepreneurs cash we listed Mukhanov O.V. (trustee of the governor) by bank transfer. As far as I remember, part of the money was transferred ... to the card of Mukhanov's wife O.V. - Svetlana.

But Sergei Kochergin, apparently, was very angry with his “head” and at the same court session told reporters that Vadim Potomsky and the head of the Department of State Property and Land Relations Andrey Sinyagov were the customers who ordered the criminal prosecution against him. In addition, the defendant said that he provided the investigators with a number of evidence about the criminal activities of the government of the Oryol region. The strange thing is that there was no response from Vadim Potomsky. Perhaps the governor does not want to once again confirm his attitude to this criminal case.

And in fact, the same evidence began to slowly creep across the region. We are talking about printouts of withdrawals from a certain Sberbank Visa Classic card, as it turned out later, representatives of the investigation actually have this documentation. Yury Lebedkin, editor-in-chief of the Oryol newspaper Krasnaya stroka, notes: “As far as I have heard,” Yuri Viktorovich said, “these printouts are indeed at the disposal of law enforcement agencies. The plastic card was issued to Sergey Kochergin's business partner Mikhail Timakov. When Kochergin headed AHML in Orel, Timakov became the general director of a well-known company - a counterpart of ASK Engineering. How the card issued to him got (and did it?) get to the trusted people of the governor, I can’t say: it’s up to the investigation to find out. And who personally paid with the card, for example, at the National in Moscow, I also do not know. But they say that the investigation already has a photo of one character ... "

We only add that the first one and a half million rubles to the Timakovo account, a copy of which is at the disposal of the editorial office, were received in August 2015. Coincidentally, it was at that time that Sergei Kochergin began to “settle down” in AHML. The next three million are credited in October and November. They withdrew money on different days and in different amounts from 100 to 147,479 rubles. In my opinion, this is usually done by those who received the amounts "dishonestly", thinking that they cover their tracks ...

There is nothing to hide here, each subordinate of Vadim Potomsky has his own function, to monitor this or that cash flow and increase income accordingly. Big money was spinning in AHML, Sergey Kochergin was given the opportunity to attract “friendly” structures to him to carry out profitable contracts. If now the defendant had correctly used the resources, the administration of the region would have become much richer, and this, of course, Vadim Potomsky understood. For example, the governor called members of the Izborsk club to the region. To bring them, perhaps, to pay per diem, to accommodate, to drink - to feed - it's not cheap at all.

On January 16, 2016, Sergey Kochergin, as a social burden, suddenly became the chairman of the Oryol regional branch of the Izborsk club. And it seems that he paid for everything that was connected with its functioning. It can be assumed that not only from personal funds ... For example, almost a year ago a theatrical performance was released on the regional TV channel, this action took place in the office of Mr. Potomsky:

Vadim Potomsky: "Is Sergey Anatolyevich working normally?" Alexander Prokhanov: "Brilliant work!" Vadim Potomsky: "He is a business man." Alexander Prokhanov: “Brilliant, simply brilliant, Sergey Anatolyevich works!”

But the story of Vadim Potomsky does not end there either. On July 28, 2016, Kochergin, together with Potomsky, met with Patriarch Kirill! But a month later, the holy spirit disappeared, a criminal case was initiated against Sergei Kochergin, then he was charged and taken into custody. So the money spent on the reception of public figures seems to have gone sideways to Mr. Kochergin, and the Oryol branch of the club practically ceased to exist with his arrest. The question remains, why did Vadim Potomsky do this with his ward, a professional in the field of fraud. You have lost a valuable shot, Vadim Vladimirovich, for your team! Only now it is obvious that Mr. Kochergin opened a rather strong wound. Sooner or later, employees of the Prosecutor General's Office will pay attention to account statements.

Early February marks four months since the President of Russia dismissed Vadim Potomsky, Governor of the Oryol Region. more than once turned to the activities of this gentleman and his entourage. He also wrote about how corruption schemes and outright theft flourished during his reign. The most financially interesting municipal enterprises were transferred from city ownership to regional ownership, and then “milked out” with the help of citizens close to the Potomsky family, who, at the suggestion of the governor, were appointed their leaders. Today's publication is devoted to only two of these structures - Orelgorteploenergo JSC and State Unitary Enterprise OO Road Service. Hundreds of millions of rubles were withdrawn from them in various ways. Today we cannot reveal all the secrets of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Oryol Region, which is being conducted by the Investigation Department, and name the final beneficiaries or, as the former governor liked to say, “interested parties”, but we will still open the veil over the main corruption schemes ... GOVERNOR’S UNCLE AND AUNT AND THEIR DIRECTOR On December 11, 2017, the Investigative Committee of the ICR for the Orel Region opened a criminal case against the former CEO JSC "Orelgorteploenergo" Vladimir Dorofeev, suspected of committing a crime under Part 2 of Art. 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. On January 18, he was detained, then arrested, and on January 22, the Investigative Committee of the ICR reported that an additional episode of his criminal activity was revealed, qualified by the investigation under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. What does Vadim Potomsky and his family have to do with it, you ask? Local journalists who wrote about Vladimir Dorofeev somehow missed the fact that he had known Vadim Potomsky and his close relatives for many years. Moreover, he even worked at their family business as a general manager. In the patrimony of Potomsky, Vsevolozhsk, the ex-governor and his family created two LLCs with similar names: "Vsevolozhskspetstrans" and "VsevolozhskSpetsTrans". One began operating in 2001, the other in 2009. In the first of them, 90% belongs to Potomsky's aunt, and the founders of the second are the same aunt and her husband, the brother of Potomsky's mother,. And, what is most interesting, the director of both LLCs in 2009-2013 was a citizen Dorofeev Vladimir Anatolyevich, the same one who was invited by Vadim Potomsky to the position of general director of Orelgorteploenergo JSC. Now a couple of warm words about how the municipal enterprise Orelgorteploenergo came under the control of the governor's office. On January 28, 2015, Vadim Potomsky urgently summoned Mikhail Bernikov, city manager of Orel, and instructed him to include in the agenda of tomorrow's meeting of the City Council the issue of transferring Orelgorteploenergo free of charge to regional ownership. Bernikov did not even hide the fact that the issue was introduced at the initiative of the governor, and the deputies of the City Council unanimously voted in favor. On March 31, 100% of the shares, in accordance with the order of Potomsky, became the property of the regional Department of State Property and Land Relations, which was headed by Andrey Sinyagov, invited by the governor from St. Petersburg. The already mentioned St. Petersburg partner of the Potomsky family, the Bagdasarovs, Vladimir Dorofeev, became the general director, and Alexander Remiga, a resident of the Northern capital, also became the chairman of the board of directors of Orelgorteploenergo JSC (in November 2016 he was replaced by another St. Petersburg deputy Pomsky, Anatoly Mishanov). In general, by 2016, the "St. Petersburg" chain has developed completely and finally. We remind readers that by now Dorofeev is in a temporary detention facility, Remiga, Mishanov and Sinyagov have left their positions in the regional government.

Vadim Potomsky's first deputy Anatoly Mishanov (left) worked closely in St. Petersburg with Vice Governor Marat Oganesyan. As a result, Oganesyan ended up in a pre-trial detention center, and Mishanov went to Oryol

Since March 2017, Vitaly Rybakov, deputy of the Oryol Regional Council of People's Deputies, has been writing deputy requests to the governor, the regional prosecutor's office, and the General Prosecutor's Office, and to. In them, he asked the security forces to pay attention to what was happening at Orelgorteploenergo. In particular, Rybakov reported that the director of the enterprise, Dorofeev, lived outside the region and arranged weekly business trips to the Leningrad Region at the expense of Orelgorteploenergo. In addition, according to Rybakov's appeals, “the enterprise had an annual income of 100 to 200 million rubles due to the lease of heating networks. But at the same time, according to the decision of Dorofeev, it issued loans to "various companies that participated, among other things, in the reconstruction of anniversary facilities (theaters, Lenin's stadium) and affiliated with the governor Vadim Potomsky and his entourage." According to Rybakov, the loans issued were not returned, since many firms disappeared after the “development”, as was the case, for example, with “321 Armed Forces of Ukraine”, which went into bankruptcy proceedings. Today, after the resignation of Vadim Potomsky, criminal cases are being initiated against him henchmen, business partners of his family and other associates (almost wrote "accomplices"). And in the spring and summer of 2017, the prosecutor's office of the Oryol region and some other structures simply ignored the deputy's requests, getting off with the usual replies. Vitaly Rybakov, at a meeting of the regional Council of People's Deputies, demanded that the chairman of the board of directors of Oryolgorteploenergo be called in for an explanation, but the chairman of the Orel Regional Council of People's Deputies, Leonid Muzalevsky, "for regulatory reasons" refused to do this, fearing publicity and a legitimate question: what did the leader do to solve the problem regional legislature?

The only structure that worked closely on Orelgorteploenergo was the FSB department for the Oryol region. All summer there was a collection of materials, and in the autumn the operation entered a decisive phase. The operatives seized documents in the office of Oryolgorteploenergo. But only at the very end of last year, the Investigative Committee of the ICR for the Oryol Region opened a criminal case and reported that the partner of the governor's family, Vladimir Dorofeev, "according to the investigation, holds the position of general director of Oryolgorteploenergo, a joint-stock company in which 100% of the shares belong to the Department of State Property and land relations of the Oryol region - from December 2015 to June 2017, abusing his powers in order to gain benefits for himself and others, under the guise of carrying out legal economic activity entered into interest-bearing loan agreements, including with one-day firms, after which funds totaling more than 139 million rubles were transferred from the settlement accounts of Orelgorteploenergo JSC to the settlement accounts of these dubious organizations. To date, loans to the joint-stock company have not been returned, which caused property damage to Orelgorteploenergo and the administration of the Oryol region. ”And the Investigative Committee of the ICR officially confirmed Rybakov’s data that Dorofeev from February 2016 to August 2017 “regularly visited the city on personal matters Petersburg and Moscow, while using his official position, and the suspect registered these trips as business trips. Travel expenses were transferred to Dorofeev’s personal bank card, which he disposed of at his own discretion. As a result of the illegal actions of Dorofeev JSC "". Well, Dorofeev spent 100 thousand state rubles a month on himself, but where, in fact, did 139 (if you count the percentages, then more than 150) million? Sailed away, by the way, with the "assistance" of Sinyagov, Remiga and Mishanov. And it would also be worthwhile for the investigation to figure out whether the prosecutor of the region Ivan Poluektov and the chairman of the regional council Leonid Muzalevsky condoned the development of this whole story. According to one of the journalistic versions, 65 million were transferred to the company of Artur Sarkisov, invited by Potomsky, “321 APU”, which went bankrupt after “sending” a “loan” to the next intermediary. Even the firm of the final “interested person” was called - Vadim Potomsky's sister Lyubov Potomskaya Lenkvarts LLC. But now, while the investigation is ongoing, we can neither confirm nor deny this version. The "St. Petersburg chain" turned out to be too confusing and full of intermediaries. In relation to Artur Sarkisov, by the way, four days after the resignation of Potomsky, a criminal case was initiated under Art. 195 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Oryolgorteploenergo JSC Alexander Remiga (right) and under investigation contractor Artur Sarkisov

"WAY" LEADING TO THE "ZONE"

"Track" - so affectionately called the comrades-in-arms of the ex-governor Vadim Potomsky, his beloved "Road Service". It was established in 2011 and was engaged in the maintenance of regional roads. The city ones were cleaned by the municipal enterprise Spetsavtobaza. Not even two months had passed since the appearance of Vadim Potomsky in the region, when he decided to make Path the sole manager of budgetary funds allocated for the repair and maintenance of roads in the region. May 13, 2014: "Vadim Potomsky announced the plans of the regional government to apply to the Oryol City Council of People's Deputies with a request to transfer authority for the maintenance of roads in the city of Orel to the regional level." Any opposition to this idea of ​​​​Potomsky simply infuriated. After employees of Spetsavtobaza began picketing in the summer of 2015, trying to save the enterprise, the now former governor publicly demanded that the security forces “identify the instigators”:

On May 3, 2017, the Orlovskaya Sreda newspaper published a letter on behalf of 520 employees of the Road Service, which described how officials from Potomsky’s team turned a state-owned enterprise into a “machine for laundering and stealing budget funds.” The letter revealed large-scale abuses, it was said about the purchase of raw materials from suppliers from the southern regions at inflated prices, about the transfer of contracts to firms affiliated with the leaders of the Path. Who covers the theft, the workers perfectly understood. In despair: “The purpose of our appeal is to draw attention to and stop the lawlessness with the collapse and theft that occurs at the enterprise under the auspices of the people of Potomsky and Mishanov. We see no point in contacting Governor Potomsky, since we already know that this is ineffective, and the example of other enterprises that were ruined during the three years of his governorship confirms this.

Since the summer of 2016, Vitaly Rybakov, deputy of the Oryol Regional Council of People's Deputies, has been actively involved in real fight for showing the public and law enforcement agencies those schemes used by the "Road Service", which was run exclusively by the personal appointees of the governor. He noted: “Careful citizens, employees of the enterprise addressed me as a deputy, published appeals in the media, which cited glaring facts. The Road Service, for example, purchased oil products at clearly inflated prices from firms in other regions, although the company's vehicles are already provided with fuel using special cards at local gas stations. And to carry fuel, say, from the Stavropol Territory, is to act in accordance with the saying "A calf is a half, but a ruble is transported." There are also issues with the supply of inert materials. All these materials, with the exception of crushed granite, are available in sufficient quantities in our region, but the deliveries of sand to the Road Service were again made by firms from the southern regions of Russia. What was the point of such supplies?

It was Rybakov’s deputy requests that became a kind of catalyst for the regional Council of People’s Deputies, practically contrary to the opinion of its chairman Leonid Muzalevsky, to initiate an audit of the Road Service by the Chamber of Control and Accounts. On May 19, 2017, the auditor of the Chamber of Control and Accounts of the region, Alevtina Pirogova, signed a report on the results of the audit of the Road Service.

The report of the PCB (the text is at the disposal of the editors) was immediately sent to the prosecutor of the Orel region, Ivan Poluektov, and the chairman of the regional council, Leonid Muzalevsky. In a letter addressed to the Prosecutor General of Russia Yuri Chaika, deputy Vitaly Rybakov writes: “Despite the fact that the materials of the check were sent to the prosecutor’s office of the Oryol region back in May 2017, the reaction followed only seven months later, it turns out that the regional prosecutor’s office began to work only after the resignation Governor Potomsky V.V.

It cannot be said that the leaders of the "Path" did not attempt to organize a legal cover.

At one time, the general director of the enterprise, Yevgeny Goncharenko, who was threatened with problems with the law, having four lawyers on his staff, concluded an agreement for the provision of legal services with a well-known Oryol lawyer, president of the Bar Association and a member public councils almost all law enforcement agencies of the Oryol region by Sergey Malfanov. Under the terms of the contract, the payment for the services of Mr. Malfanov cost the Road Service 1,200,000 rubles a year, that is, 100,000 rubles a month. Did not help. Four months later, Goncharenko left his post, and then was arrested as part of a criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud), initiated on the fact of an attempted theft. The contract with Malfanov was terminated, but he received 400 thousand rubles in four months.

The search for those responsible for the large-scale abuses that took place under the former governor Vadim Potomsky and is believed to have been carried out with the tacit consent of the chairman of the regional Council of People's Deputies Leonid Muzalevsky, according to the deputy of the regional council Vitaly Rybakov, is not an end in itself, although the punishment should be inevitable regardless from the position: “I have already said and I will repeat again: the stolen money does not go anywhere, you can always find the final addressee. And, in my opinion, the task law enforcement exactly in this. According to my calculations, over the past three years, about 3 billion budget funds have been withdrawn from the Oryol region. Today, both the regional and city budgets are experiencing an acute shortage of finance. With this money, it would be possible to build kindergartens, schools, repair sports facilities, provide schoolchildren with hot meals without any problems, and beneficiaries with free medicines. Therefore, I repeat, we must do everything possible to.

In No. 11 of Novaya Gazeta, we talked about how the head of the Oryol region Vadim Potomsky publicly reprimanded investigators who, in his opinion, are not actively prosecuting his political opponent (see direct speech). For an outside observer, this looked comical, but, as far as we know, it caused a harsh reaction from the leadership of the Investigative Committee.

Direct speech: "I'll tell you how the governor Oryol region as the highest official. But governors are not born, they become governors, you go through a path in your life. Therefore, there is some experience of working in other regions, richer regions, not richer, much richer regions, such as the Leningrad region, and the prosecutor of the district where I was, today the first deputy prosecutor, the first deputy chairman of the Investigative Committee Russian Federation Piskarev Vasily Ivanovich.

“Four criminal cases for one person! Let them do whatever they want! Shakes power! Shame on state power! This is a label for you too! This is a challenge for us! This is not my personal fight, it should be a joint fight with them!”

“I am sure that, despite the fact that you have a young experience, and even though you are already majors, you have more than enough experience ... you can handle such elementary matters.”

[dni.ru, 02/10/2015, "Markin compared the governor with Napoleon": "Just some kind of Napoleon! He cheered me up!" - wrote Markin on Twitter. This reaction of the official representative of the Investigative Committee followed after the governor of the Oryol region, Vadim Potomsky, at a meeting of the board of the regional prosecutor's office on February 9, called the employees his army.

“I am the person I am. If I don’t like something, I will say. I have no one to be afraid of. Especially when I have an army like you,” he said. The official added that he was ready to continue to openly express his opinion.

It should be noted that in January 2015, Potomsky expressed dissatisfaction with the insufficiently effective work of the regional Investigative Committee in investigating high-profile cases in the region. In particular, he focused on the proceedings with the deputy of the regional Duma Vitaly Rybakov, who competed with Potomsky in the regional elections. - Inset K.ru]

And this is not the only case when Potomsky's public speech creates reputational problems for him. For example, last week the governor of Oryol was a guest of the Full Contact program on Vesti FM radio. The most striking episode of the conversation was the discussion of the question of the possible belonging of Vadim Potomsky to the criminal world.

In the Oryol region, as in most regions of Russia, any questions that may be asked to the governor are carefully filtered out. It would seem that the performance in broadcast by Vladimir Solovyov, which was led by "Full Contact", did not create any risks: "Vesti FM" does not broadcast in the Oryol region, which means that there was no need to wait for uncomfortable questions from local residents. But in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region, where Vadim Potomsky made first business, and then political career, they listen to the federal radio station, and, as it turned out, carefully.

Here is an SMS message from a “native resident of Vsevolozhsk”, which Vladimir Solovyov read out on the air (hereinafter we quote the transcript of the transmission from the official website of the radio station. - S.I.):

“Potomsky is a bandit, like his entourage.<...>Ask how much he stole at the garbage disposal, pick up the police chronicles. Potomsky's sister was married to a member Tambov group Ilya Vladimirovich Parshuk. He still has a business in Vsevolozhsk.

Of course, anyone could send SMS with such content, but a public politician should always be ready for the publication of "compromising evidence", even unrelated to reality. The further conversation between the presenter and the governor went according to an unexpected scenario:

« Solovyov: "A man without a signature, just in case, but he has a phone, it's easy to establish."

Potomsky: “Just in case, from fear, probably of some kind ...”

Solovyov: "Are you a bandit?"

Potosky: “Well, I’m a big man, I served in the army sports club, I’m a master of sports in judo and in all my external data, and in the way I talk and, if necessary, answer any question posed, including if someone you need to show your physical strength, I won’t stand up for the price, and you need to talk with me within the limits that I allow.

Potomsky gave a detailed and non-trivial characterization of his own personality, although in such a situation it was enough to say three words: "I'm not a bandit" or "This is complete nonsense." It is not clear, however, why he did not stand up for his sister, whom an anonymous radio listener directly accused of having links with crime. Moreover, Vladimir Solovyov developed a topic that was unpleasant for the interlocutor:

« Solovyov: "Well, the truth about the Tambov group?"

Potomsky: “Volodya, well, you understand what Tambov group is? It's like a joke. "His daughter is a prostitute." - "I don't have a daughter." - "It's none of my business, you answer come on, tell me." Like in the elections. Well, anything you can think of.”

Apparently, the framework in which Potomsky allows to talk about his relatives is quite wide. Moreover, neither the business of his sister in Vsevolozhsk, nor the vigorous activity of Ilya Parshuk in this region are fiction.

According to the SKRIN information base, since 2007 Lyubov Potomskaya headed the Vsevolozhsk Municipal Management Company for some time. However, then she established five commercial enterprises, one of which, Volna LLC, began to actively work with the budget of the Leningrad Region. According to the federal register of government contracts, Volna concluded 164 contracts in 2011-2015 for a total amount of more than 360 million rubles.

And here is the verdict of the criminal board of the St. Petersburg City Court of September 12, 1995. The accusatory part says that Parshuk I.V., like a number of other active members of the "Malyshevskaya" organized criminal group, charged under Art. 77 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (banditry). Judging by the text of the verdict, in addition to participating in an organized crime group, he was charged with extortion. He was convicted, but released in the courtroom in connection with serving his sentence during pre-trial detention.

Anonymous, who sent SMS on the air of Vladimir Solovyov and embarrassed Vadim Potomsky, obviously knows how to search for information not only in Yandex. Law enforcement databases consulted by " New Newspaper”, contain other interesting stories (see help). Specialists in the criminal history of St. Petersburg may note that the "Tambovskaya" and "Malyshevskaya" groups are not the same thing (rather, we are talking about the "parent" and "daughter" structures). But all these nuances become important only if the head of the region, empowered by the president and then won the election, can directly answer the uncomfortable question: “Are you a bandit?”

Help "New"

According to report No. 01197-97, received by the RUOP in March 1997, a certain Potomsky Vladimir Vikentevich (b. 29.07. .), Andreev Igor Nikolaevich (03/02/1958) and Vyakhirov Vadim Yuryevich (05/11/1963) “allegedly in 1996 he fraudulently took possession of the documents and accounts of the guardian security company and is currently engaged in fraud and extortion against commercial structures of St. Petersburg.

Taking into account the above, DPOP 0467-97 was entered for these persons.

The archive bases of the St. Petersburg RUOP contain information about a certain Ilya Parshuk, a native of the Gatchina district of the Leningrad region, who was a prominent member of the "Malyshevskaya" organized criminal group and bore the nickname Al-Capone. I am quoting an operational report from an RUOP employee: “Parshuk I.V. (born May 28, 1955) and Parshuk N.V. (born 04/28/51) have been developed since 10/16/1992. Parshuk was charged with Art. 218, part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and Art. 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in the framework of criminal case No. 534530, namely, “the threat of physical violence and destruction of property, extortion of money from Belikov O.A., General Director of Helios JSC, administration of the Vsevolozhskaya trading company during 1992-1993. ".

In addition, on 03/05/1997, information was received from the GUOP 6th MRO of the RUOP on Parshuk Ilya Vladimirovich, born in 1955, a native of the Gatchina region, mountains. Vsevolozhsk, st. Sovetskaya, 141, - that he is a member of the "Malyshevskaya" organized criminal group, "is engaged in the sale of a chemically pure drug, ephedrine, is looking for channels for wholesale distribution and acquisition."

On October 13, 1997, the 6th MRO of the RUOP “received the results of the primary signal information: Ilya Vladimirovich Parshuk, born on May 28, 1955, passport VIII-VO 607028, issued by the Vsevolozhsk Department of Internal Affairs, registered: Leningrad Region, Vsevolozhsk, st. Plotkina, 5/244. As a result of the audit, information was confirmed on the composition of the crimes under Art. 228 (illegal acquisition, storage, transportation, manufacture and processing of narcotic drugs) and 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of a criminal community). Based on the received signal, a decision was made to establish OND No. 026-97. The date of the decision on the signal is 05/08/1997. The information was sent by A-044503, 6th MRO RUOP.

Sergey Ivanov

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Gentleman of bad luck

Doubtful horizons of the governor Vadim Potomsky

I recently read an issue of Orlovskaya Pravda, the official mouthpiece of the administration of the region of the same name. It seemed like something painfully familiar, already read once in the media, with similar court names and intonations. It seems that in a single Oryol region, a well-fed, cheerful and relaxed life of citizens still reigns, about whom (and only about them!) Their communist governor Vadim Potomsky is spinning day and night. I have a slightly different opinion on this matter, with which, I think, many Orlovites will agree, and here's why.

The biography of the communist Vadim Vladimirovich Potomsky, who has been pulling the levers of governor's power in the Oryol region for a year now, is diverse and amusing, like pictures in a primitive children's kaleidoscope.

Back in 2001, a criminal case No. 367353 was initiated against this person on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 of Art. 171 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Illegal business".

Paradise marked "personally"

These (and not only) details from the past working days of Vadim Vladimirovich in his film “The Truth about the Elections and Potomsk” were told to Russians in 2012 by a well-known TV journalist Andrey Karaulov. The broadcast had a resonance: in any case, in the gubernatorial elections in the Bryansk region, Vadim Potomsky, who already at that time, as they said in certain circles, had the honorary pseudonym "garbage oligarch", safely flew by.

As an analysis of the biography of our hero shows, Vadim Potomsky has always been distinguished by a craving for two simple everyday trifles: money and power. In Russian realities, this is more than reasonable: the presence of one, as a rule, immediately ensures the appearance of another. But sometimes annoying slips do happen. And legal again.

After a meticulous investigation in 2003, already Court of Arbitration in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, in case No. 56–9673/2003, decides to “...reclaim municipal property from the illegal possession of IP Vadim Potomsky and collect a debt of 482,000 rubles from him.” For a person who dreams of wealth and fame, the decision is not at all rosy, but he was already attracted by other horizons...

"Family contract"

In 2008? The Vsevolozhsk Court of the Leningrad Region accepted for consideration a criminal case against the head of the municipality "Rakhya urban settlement" Sergey Kuznetsov, as well as his deputy Vladimir Potomsky. The leaders were charged with "abuse of authority" and "forgery". The piquancy of the situation was given by the fact that the defendant Potomsky Vladimir was the father of a local businessman and deputy of the Lenoblsovet from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Potomsky Vadim, in the interests of which, quite likely, sometimes "slightly" violated the current Criminal Code.

According to investigators, as a result of my father's and his accomplice-boss, the tidbit land plot at a cost of almost 40 million dollars (!) went under commercial development only to very close businessmen.

Including, apparently, his son-deputy Vadim. And again - a bummer: the press made a noise. Law enforcement officers creaked their muscles... Scandal! Criminal case! The deal, of course, never took place. But if a person has a goal in life, such annoying little things they can’t stop him, and in 2012, a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Vadim Potomsky, decided to be elected governor of the Bryansk region!

Balanda about a soldier

A few days before the reverent count of votes in the Bryansk electoral committee, the already named film by Andrei Karaulov "The Truth about the Elections and Potomsk" was released on the screens. In addition to the mentioned biographical symbols from the life of Vadim Potomsky, the well-known TV journalist told everyone about the special attitude of the then gubernatorial candidate and a real communist to such an honorable and respected military service in our country.

Having received in 1993? lieutenant shoulder straps and a diploma of a graduate of the St. Petersburg Anti-Aircraft Missile School (where his father Vladimir Potomsky also taught), Vadim Vladimirovich was clearly bored. Way to general's stripes was distant, thorny and unrealistic. Perhaps that is why in 1998? Potomsky Jr. retired from the army. But even here, due to some, obviously, genetic inclusions, the situation has acquired an incomprehensible mysticism.

As Andrey Karaulov said, he not only could not get Potosky personally, but he himself could not understand how he, more than ten (!) Years after his “demobilization”, in 2009, could first become a major according to documents, and after a few months already a lieutenant colonel!

Everything that could be broken was violated, Karaulov is sure.

“Real material for initiating a criminal case on all these - my opinion - frauds ... I hope the military prosecutors will hear us,” a well-known TV journalist summed up his doubts.

However, Vadim Potomsky was clearly lucky then: military prosecutors from the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office of Karaulov might have heard, but since at that time Mr. Serdyukov and his morals reigned in the Ministry of Defense, crushing both charters and laws, they did not raise a fuss .

Maybe the time has finally come to count all the steps at least in the career military ladder of Mr. Potomsky Vadim Vladimirovich? As they say, in “edification to posterity”: or in order for the new Minister of War Sergei Shoigu to have a clear understanding of whom, in extreme cases, he can count on under his banners, and from whom, as they say, you should stay away ...

We will strengthen our belly in the fight!

Throwing around the administrative sites of Russia finally brought the member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Potomsky the long-awaited primitive reassurance: for a year now he has been in charge of the Oryol region. But how? To answer this sacred question for all administrators, it is best to leaf through the local press, from which we began this material by quoting. For example. Even the official local communist (!) newspaper Orlovskaya Iskra makes no secret of this: “Since January, there has been an increase in average retail prices for beef, pasta, sugar, bread, potatoes, onions, carrots, cabbage, apples,” the press service said. government of the Oryol region. If we take into account the fact that, in addition to the governor's troubles, Vadim Vladimirovich complicated his life with the position of chairman of this very government, then it should be recognized that he is apparently the least suitable for these two posts today.

A similar idea is confirmed by the regional analytical weekly "Red Line" in the article "Take someone else's and for a while, give your own forever": almost one and a half times! We can only mournfully be silent with all the inhabitants of the Oryol region.

The editorial office has a cassette with a recording of the speech of the governor of Potomsky before the prosecutors and investigators of the Oryol region. I confess that the author has never met such an undisguised pressure (one would like to say “collision”) on people in uniform for many years of practice as a lawyer and a journalist. The governor spoke about those cases that, due to objective legal reasons (lack of expertise required by law, for example) and, apparently, in defiance of his overt desire to see them (or rather their “persons involved”) in court as soon as possible, did not go there. However, I will cite some unbiased statements of Mr. Potomsky himself. They are very eloquent and easily amenable to semantic decoding.

“I will tell you as the governor of the Oryol region, as the highest official: governors are not born, they become governors (very often, alas, erroneously. - A.N.). That is, you go through some path in your life, that is, some work experience in other regions, richer ones ... Such as the Leningrad Region (this is what we talked about above. - A.N.). The prosecutor of the district where I was, today the first deputy chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, is Piskarev Vasily Ivanovich (read, my friend, or what? - A.N.). I understand that expertise is needed, I understand everything perfectly. But of the four cases in two, an examination is absolutely not needed! (Sorry, only the investigator decides this, but not the governor! - A.N.) If everyone needs money for an examination ... we will give this money! Experts don't care whose money it is: it came from you or from some other source! Do you need expert opinions? You will get it!... We are ready to pay... We will do it! If they do not suit someone, let's make third-party ones! Show where you will be satisfied! And we will pay for it, we are ready!”... etc.?

I confess honestly, if I didn’t know that the person in the frame is the “highest official of the region”, and the people to whom he so passionately and specifically appeals are security officials, I would have thought that this was an operational shooting from some “specific » meetings. Well, you can hear the synchronous off-screen dubbing: “Do you need grandmas? What's the problem: let's give! Do you need my connections? I named them! We'll fix everything! We'll pay for everything!"

In this speech before the hushed and dumbfounded investigators (who, by the way, and this follows just from the speech of the governor himself, work precisely in the legal field!) Promises to “give money”, “provide financial assistance”, “pay”, etc.? repeated almost every paragraph!

Maybe in the era of wholesale reforms in a separate Oryol region, Mr. Potomsky found his new, exclusively "commercial" way of working with representatives of justice? I don't know... However, he nevertheless outlined a certain exact targeting of his speech to the security forces.

Quote: “They wrote that I allegedly met with Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin(Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. - A.N.). I have not met yet, we will have a meeting in February, and on a number of matters I want to talk to him so that he, apparently, will help you! (I hope not financially? - A.N.) "As they say, no comment!

If during this meeting the governor himself finds the strength to honestly tell his interlocutor everything that we have already voiced only partially, then this meeting can be safely considered Vadim Vladimirovich’s “surrender.”

Well, just like in the famous comedy: "Go, go, Vasya ..."

Arseny Nesterov

Source: "Top secret" , 02/03/2015, Photo: via Novaya Gazeta