The interlocutor assures that the once main fighter against transport corruption in the Northwestern Federal District has now gone over to the dark side. After retiring, knowing the inner workings of how tenders actually work, the high-ranking ex-policeman himself decided to manage government contracts. Shell companies, inflated prices, fake winners with one participant – the earnings scheme has not changed for more than 10 years. In 2013, Fontanka journalists told the whole country about criminal cases against officials of the Directorate of Railway Stations (NZRDZHV) – together with businessmen, officials from Russian Railways ordered work on the design, installation and connection of inspection and control points for passengers, their hand luggage and luggage at the stations of the city . St. Petersburg and Leningrad region in an amount 6 times higher than the real cost. Not only were hundreds of millions of rubles stolen (only one transaction brought the businessmen up to 15 million rubles), but the installed systems did not work properly at all. Anti-terrorist security at strategic sites was undermined; any militant could easily carry a bomb into the station past the inspectors. The corruption scheme was allegedly exposed personally by Ruslan Yazijyan. The high-profile story added new stars to the epaulets, but the bonus for a successful operation only caused laughter.
At the same time, strange detentions of employees of the Oktyabrskaya Railway began. Transport police, with the forceful support of riot police, one after another destroyed the offices of the Railways, confiscated documents, and initiated criminal cases for fraud and theft. All this was broadcast in the media and on departmental resources of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. And after some time, the detained managers found themselves free or wanted, and no one made a fuss about it; on the contrary, they did their best to hide information about the dropping of charges or a successful escape from the investigation of one or another railway worker/contractor. As a result, the cases simply did not reach the court.
Suspicions that someone is leaking the developments of anti-corruption experts have reached the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. By that time, the story of the “golden colonel” Zakharchenko and his billions had thundered throughout Russia. Then everyone remembered his friendship with the head of the “T” department of the North-West, Ruslan Yazijyan. Having resigned on time, Yazijyan first moved to manage tenders at the St. Petersburg port, and then the leaders of Russian Railways noticed the valuable personnel.
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