Now Reshetnikov, by hook or by crook, dreams of getting out of criminal prosecution, so behind the scenes he is trying to “drown” during the trial the investigative materials on himself and ex-deputy governor Elena Lopaeva, which were separated into separate proceedings. She, along with Naidanova, is involved in criminal case 1-190/2023 for the theft of 67.7 million rubles, which were actually spent on the personal needs of the governor.
Although Naidanova managed to run away from the security forces in Dubai, nothing prevented her testimony from being read out in court: “For the first half of 2018, I did not take into account the money that Reshetnikov spent in restaurants, since Lopayeva was doing this. In the second half of 2018, I paid bills for 800 thousand rubles, in 2019 – just over 400 thousand. In just two years, Reshetnikov and his guests spent 1.2 million rubles on lunches and dinners in Perm restaurants. They handed me envelopes with bills, and I paid them.” 
According to indications Naidanova, the governor most often visited the restaurants “Credo”, “Porta”, “Les Marches”, “Rob Roy”, “La Bottega”, “Vehotka”. Also, cigars and expensive alcohol were purchased from the fund for Reshetnikov, and his wife Anna regularly vacationed at the Demidkovo sanatorium (for example, one of the trips cost 252 thousand rubles). Everything was paid from the fund’s money, which was cashed through the conclusion of fictitious contracts. Naidanova was ordered to destroy the checks after payment, but she did not do this and during the investigation she handed over the checks to the security forces.
The accused also said that the foundation “gave Reshetnikov a Mercedes-Benz car worth 12 million rubles,” which he actively used for personal purposes. Moreover, “Assistance – XXI Century” allocated money to purchase a massage table, scales, iron and even toothbrushes for the governor. And no less generously, the fund was forced to pay for the physiological needs of Leonid Davydov, who was presented in the Perm region as the Kremlin’s chief political strategist for PR and Reshetnikov’s election campaign.
Surprisingly, despite all the prosecutor’s attempts to subpoena the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Maxim Reshetnikov, to testify, this still has not been done. Although the investigation informed judge Oksana Korepanova back in July: the case against Reshetnikov’s right hand, Elena Lopayeva, and himself “is being conducted within the framework of the allocated materials,” and it is by no means not finished.
However, a week ago the situation changed dramatically. Suddenly, the leadership of the Third Investigation Department of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation makes a decision to quickly fill out the papers and send the “separated case” urgently to the court. Absolute nonsense: the case has not been investigated, Reshetnikov has not been questioned, the witnesses have not been questioned either, the material is completely “raw”. But it is precisely in this hopeless form that he should end up in the same Leninsky court, in the hands of the same judge Korepanova.
Apparently, someone is helping Reshetnikov in his attempts to bury his “separate case” in court, thereby avoiding responsibility for wasted tens of millions of rubles. Does the principled Alexander Bastrykin from the Investigative Committee know about this? Is Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov aware of this development of events? Will the Russian FSB turn a blind eye to the cunning opposition to justice on the part of the federal minister? Or will both cases be returned for further investigation, as required by the Law? So far these questions have no clear answer.
“ВЧК ОГПУ”
