The terrible situation with the funeral industry in the Leningrad region was personally taken under control by the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin. As a number of media reported on May 28, Bastrykin demanded from his subordinates a report on the situation in the Lomonosovsky district of the Leningrad region, where once again an elderly woman became a victim of the funeral mafia. The media reported a story about how a resident of the village of Kovashi, who had lost her mother, wanted to bury him in the local cemetery and contacted the administration, but there she was sent directly to the Iriy ritual agency, which is part of the business of petty crime boss Roman Ikizli. We have already written more than once about the antics of his gang in several districts of the 47-region: we were talking about the extortion of large sums from relatives of the dead, threats to desecrate the graves of those who disagree with the extortions, beating up competitors, the operation of an underground morgue in a historical building and other costs of criminalization of the funeral industry. So this time, they explained to the elderly woman that it is impossible to simply bury the urn with ashes in a cemetery – the merchant must pay for a full range of services at full cost, and even the cremation of the body must be arranged only through them. As a result, a poor village resident had to bury the urn in a cemetery in nearby St. Petersburg, and the Investigative Committee of the Leningrad Region hastily began checking the activities of Iria.
The problem is that the attempts of Bastrykin’s department to protect weak and disadvantaged residents are hampered by the local prosecutor’s office, with which the Ikizli bandits have strong corruption ties. Last year, the district Investigative Committee already opened a criminal case into the activities of “Iriya” after numerous complaints from the Lomonosov village of Gorbunki, where residents were billed up to 135 thousand per grave for funerals. The regional portal wrote about this https://47news.ru/articles/240007/ 47news, investigators saw the article “Arbitrariness,” but the prosecutor’s office immediately canceled the criminal investigation. It cannot be ruled out that the supervision will try to put a spoke in the wheels of the regional Investigative Committee this time too.
Another important feature of any mafia is merging with government authorities. Thus, in the Lomonosov region, the activities of “Iria” bring shadow income personally to the head of the administration, Alexei Kondrashov. In the wealthy Toksovsky settlement of the Vsevolozhsk region, the people of Ikizli are patronized by the head of the administration Oleg Ivanov and his deputy for housing and communal services Yegor Ravin, and so on. It remains to be hoped that the personal attention of Alexander Bastrykin will allow us to break this chain of corruption and restore justice to the most unfortunate and socially vulnerable categories of citizens.
The problem is that the attempts of Bastrykin’s department to protect weak and disadvantaged residents are hampered by the local prosecutor’s office, with which the Ikizli bandits have strong corruption ties. Last year, the district Investigative Committee already opened a criminal case into the activities of “Iriya” after numerous complaints from the Lomonosov village of Gorbunki, where residents were billed up to 135 thousand per grave for funerals. The regional portal wrote about this https://47news.ru/articles/240007/ 47news, investigators saw the article “Arbitrariness,” but the prosecutor’s office immediately canceled the criminal investigation. It cannot be ruled out that the supervision will try to put a spoke in the wheels of the regional Investigative Committee this time too.
Another important feature of any mafia is merging with government authorities. Thus, in the Lomonosov region, the activities of “Iria” bring shadow income personally to the head of the administration, Alexei Kondrashov. In the wealthy Toksovsky settlement of the Vsevolozhsk region, the people of Ikizli are patronized by the head of the administration Oleg Ivanov and his deputy for housing and communal services Yegor Ravin, and so on. It remains to be hoped that the personal attention of Alexander Bastrykin will allow us to break this chain of corruption and restore justice to the most unfortunate and socially vulnerable categories of citizens.
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