The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg placed under house arrest until mid-September the former chief forester of the Leningrad region, Mikhail Novikov, and the general director and co-founder of a large contractor in the field of liquidation of unauthorized landfills, Baltkond LLC, Artem Daineko, whose detention was reported by the editors of Lisa Basilio on Thursday. They are suspected of fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
According to the investigation, Novikov had a criminal intent aimed at stealing money allocated to Lenoblles as part of the region’s state program for clearing forest lands from littering with waste. In agreement with Daineko (who was the son-in-law of Vadim Potomsky, deputy plenipotentiary representative in the Northwestern Federal District in charge of environmental issues), in March-April 2023 he instructed employees to prepare documentation for the auction for the specified work using some details in the terms of reference, the winner of which could only be Baltkond LLC ”
The state contract with this company was concluded in the amount of 44.28 million rubles, but the forest was not cleared of debris by the agreed completion date. An interesting detail is that according to the documents it was necessary to remove areas where there was no waste at all. Nevertheless, the defendants prepared an acceptance certificate for the work performed, knowing reliably how things really were on the ground. The damage under this contract is exactly equal to its amount. In addition, the defendants performed similar actions under other contracts. The total amount of stolen goods is at least 197.7 million rubles.
In parallel with this, forester Novikov is charged with another episode of theft for 3 million rubles when drawing up a contract for the renovation of the North-Western Forestry building.
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In the building of the regional Investigative Committee on Voznesensky Prospekt, the former chief forester of the Leningrad region, Mikhail Novikov, is now in custody. Rumor has it that it was brought all the way from Karelia.
The second detainee is Artem Daineko, co-founder and general director of a large…
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