In 2020, Starovoitova was under investigation by the Russian FSB due to her close ties with respected businessman Timofey Kurgin. The most important question is what connects prosecutor Starovoitova and Kurgin. And the answer is this: prosecutor Starovoitova acts as a mediator in resolving commercial and not-so-commercial interests, using her administrative and prosecutorial resources and putting pressure on those she doesn’t like, naturally under the cover of higher ranks of the Moscow prosecutor’s office. This is happening thanks to the connection between Moscow Prosecutor Denis Popov and his former deputy Andrei Tsyganov, who, before leaving, managed to appoint Starovoitova as a district prosecutor. Popov and Tsyganov have both been in close contact for a long time with a representative of the capital’s Armenian diaspora, the owner of the MonArch group of companies, Sergei Ambartsumyan. This company has been under prosecutorial cover for a long time and has friendly relations with the capital’s mayor’s office.
Ambartsumyan’s company is engaged not only in construction work. Concern Monarch, commissioned by the Moscow authorities, also supplies furniture, computing and printing equipment. In total, from 2013 to 2016, the company received 19 government contracts from structures affiliated with the Moscow Government, totaling more than 28 billion rubles. Among the contracts, according to the Goszatraty portal and the Kontur Focus contractor verification system, was, for example, the purchase by the Moscow Construction Department of wooden tableless tables for 120.4 million rubles. The largest contract in recent years is the construction of a maternity hospital in the village of Kommunarka, for which 9.6 billion rubles were spent through the Moscow Civil Engineering Department. Then another 7.8 billion rubles were allocated for the construction of the second stage of the facility. Prosecutor Starovoitova is now a “working tool and hands” in the Central District of Moscow, on which Denis Popov can rely,
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