The Versiya newspaper continues a series of publications about candidates for the post of head of the Supreme…

The Versiya newspaper continues a series of publications about candidates for the post of head of the Supreme Court of Tatarstan. This time, journalists focused on the non-public head of the Zelenodolsk court, 43-year-old Azat Gilmutdinov, as well as the oil industry patrons behind him. As the newspaper writes, it is thanks to Tatneft’s money that he lives in a house worth more than 200 million rubles on the embankment of the Kazan Kremlin, buys apartments for his relatives in an elite residential complex on Katanovsky Lane and drives an expensive Mercedes, which does not fit in with the official income of the judge.
Journalists also pay attention to the “black spots” in the biography of Azat Gilmutdinov, each of which contradicts not only his appointment as head of the Supreme Court of the Republic, but also the continuation of his current duties as a judge.

It turned out that when applying for a job, Gilmutdinov hid information about his father’s criminal record and criminal cases against him, which is a serious disciplinary offense and usually leads to deprivation of the robe. Mansur Gilmutdinov was convicted in 1984 under Article 92 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR for the theft of tens of tons of property entrusted to him by his native Kukmorsky district of Tatarstan and its sale throughout the USSR. And in 2011, a criminal case was opened against Mansur Gilmutdinov, as the owner of the 7 Kilometer restaurant, for the acute poisoning of more than 80 people. Thanks to the family’s connections in law enforcement agencies, eight years later (!) the case was closed.
The state of health of Azat Gilmutdinov himself also raises questions. It turned out that in 2008, in a drunken brawl, he suffered a serious brain contusion and a skull defect, which greatly affected his cognitive abilities. At the same time, now, citing headaches and fatigue, he can stay at his workplace in Zelenodolsk only until lunch. These injuries and illnesses, incompatible with the status of a judge, Gilmutdinov carefully hid them for many years,
Surprisingly, all mentions of these facts were carefully cleared from the court materials, but everything secret becomes clear, and journalists found them in the archives of the prosecutor’s office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the regional authorities.

According to sources of the Cheka-OGPU, the rapid career of Azat Gilmutdinov was also greatly facilitated by the long-standing acquaintance of his son-in-law Ilgiz Salikhov with the now acting head of the Supreme Court of Russia Pyotr Serkov, and literally every career step of Gilmutdinov was accompanied by a call from Serkov to the Republic.

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However, fresh winds in the leadership of the Supreme Court of Russia may finally disperse the obvious clouds of nepotism and corruption in Tatarstan, Versiya journalists hope.