We continue to talk about the actions of government officials who are using federal road budgets. Meet Maxim Sokolov, now the head of the relic AvtoVAZ, and in the past he has held a variety of positions. Maxim Yuryevich made his career in exactly the same way as other major road figures: Starovoit, Kostyuk and others, whom we talked about in previous issues of our series. That is, he started from the government of St. Petersburg, where he headed the committee on investments and strategic projects. By the way, Starovoit actually worked there under his leadership.
Then the will of his patrons dragged Sokolov into the Russian government, where in 2007 he took the post of head of the department of industry and infrastructure. Later, after a three-year “servitude” as chairman of the St. Petersburg Committee on Economics, he received the long-awaited post of Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation. A year after resigning from his post, in 2019, Sokolov became transport vice-governor of St. Petersburg. True, it is not entirely clear here whether this position was lobbied by Maxim’s “godfather” – the owner of the LSR group, billionaire Andrei Molchanov. One way or another, before leaving for AvtoVAZ, where another large cut of the budget was planned in connection with the import substitution of sanctioned foreign cars, Sokolov had time to get his hand into the city budget. Colleagues notice the company “Snark”, which over and over again takes hundreds of millions of rubles on contracts for the St. Petersburg Gorelectrotrans. It is led by Vladimir Lastochkin, Sokolov’s classmate. Even the attention of the FSB cannot hinder the company’s success. Searches in 2020 did not lead to the initiation of a case, and all materials were sent to the police, where they were buried. According to a competent source of the Cheka-OGPU, Sokolov’s intervention helped resolve the Snark issue, but the price of the issue for Lastochkin was more than 50 million rubles.
Then the will of his patrons dragged Sokolov into the Russian government, where in 2007 he took the post of head of the department of industry and infrastructure. Later, after a three-year “servitude” as chairman of the St. Petersburg Committee on Economics, he received the long-awaited post of Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation. A year after resigning from his post, in 2019, Sokolov became transport vice-governor of St. Petersburg. True, it is not entirely clear here whether this position was lobbied by Maxim’s “godfather” – the owner of the LSR group, billionaire Andrei Molchanov. One way or another, before leaving for AvtoVAZ, where another large cut of the budget was planned in connection with the import substitution of sanctioned foreign cars, Sokolov had time to get his hand into the city budget. Colleagues notice the company “Snark”, which over and over again takes hundreds of millions of rubles on contracts for the St. Petersburg Gorelectrotrans. It is led by Vladimir Lastochkin, Sokolov’s classmate. Even the attention of the FSB cannot hinder the company’s success. Searches in 2020 did not lead to the initiation of a case, and all materials were sent to the police, where they were buried. According to a competent source of the Cheka-OGPU, Sokolov’s intervention helped resolve the Snark issue, but the price of the issue for Lastochkin was more than 50 million rubles.
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