Even when they are caught, for example, in 2016 the FSB closed down 11 tandem-controlled distilleries in Kabardino-Balkaria, the state still cannot repay its debts. Enterprises go bankrupt, assets are withdrawn and control over them remains with Shusharev and Tsipinov, and the debt is irrevocably “hung” on denominations who, of course, will never return it. Even where it is possible to prove in the courts that Tsipinov was the beneficiary of the enterprise, he gets rid of the state with payments that are ridiculous in comparison with billions of dollars in debt.
From 2017 to 2020, Shusharev and Tsipinov did not transfer to the treasury more than 3.6 billion rubles in taxes accrued based on the results of desk and field audits. And since 2020, the Federal Tax Service has surprisingly stopped conducting inspections at all in relation to their companies.
It is noted that an important role in this process is played by the officials of the Federal Tax Service themselves, who diligently select arbitration managers for the debt collection process. For example, the deputy head of the Federal Tax Service of Russia for the republic, Akhmed Guchev, who is in charge of the process of returning the debts of 11 distilleries of Kabardino-Balkaria to the budget, is unlikely to cause trouble for Shusharev and Tsipinov, given that his son works in their “Empire”.
But Guchev’s powers do not extend to Crimea, the Moscow region, North Ossetia and other regions; nevertheless, here too the story with the enterprises of the “Empire” develops according to a similar pattern. And here, on the one hand, it is emphasized that the debt collection process is under the control of Alexei Posashkov, who is called almost the most corrupt arbitration manager in the country, and his team of “liquidators.” On the other hand, their activities in organizing fictitious bankruptcies and preserving the assets of the “Empire” would not have been possible without corruption support in the federal and regional structures of the Federal Tax Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to Shusharev and Tsipinov, they enjoy the patronage of Konstantin Chekmyshev, deputy head of the Federal Tax Service in charge of bankruptcy, Vadim Soldatenkov, head of the Federal Tax Service department for ensuring bankruptcy procedures, as well as Alexey Deniskin, deputy head of the department of the Department of Debt Settlement and Providing Bankruptcy Procedures.
General patronage from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the “Empire” is provided by General Sergei Malkov, deputy head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Moscow Region. First of all, he supervises enterprises in the Moscow region, but if necessary, he turns to the territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Through Rosalkogolregulirovanie, with which Shusharev and Tsipinov have long-standing and fruitful ties, issues arising during inspections are resolved by the deputy head of the service, Elena Afanasenko. She also oversees the creation of problems for competitors.
Employees and heads of regional divisions and departments of various controlling structures are involved in the corruption ties and chains of Shusharev and Tsipinov, so, perhaps, “Empire” is not about the business of two dubious entrepreneurs, it is about a serious corruption problem in an industry whose debts to the state amount to billions of rubles And continue to grow.
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