How to steal five and a half billion rubles and get off with a small suspended sentence…

How to steal five and a half billion rubles and get off with a short suspended sentence? It’s simple – in Russia 2023 you need to have the right relatives for this. Even so – Correct, with a capital letter. The verdict handed down to the former head of Rostekhnadzor for the Northwestern Federal District, Grigory Slabikov, is being discussed online. Slavikov himself, detained by the FSB in 2018, his daughter and several accomplices eventually received 4-4.5 years of probation for the theft of about 5.6 billion rubles. from the funds of specialized SROs. The searches, by the way, were beautiful – our colleagues recalled a giant aquarium for bathing prostitutes installed in Slabikov’s apartment-office, a suitcase with luxury watches and boxes of cash worth a billion rubles. But in the end it all ended in shambles – the Internet is comparing Slabikov’s sentence with the sentence of journalist Alexandra Bayazitova, who allegedly received a real 5-year sentence for attempted extortion. Let us explain – Alexandra was simply unlucky with her relatives, while Grigory was lucky. After all, his relative is Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative for the Northwestern Federal District Lyubov Sovershaeva, who is often called in the media the most influential official in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. Of course: the sixty-seven-year-old protege of Kovalchukov is called the mistress of governors behind her back – both the head of St. Petersburg Beglov and the governor of the Leningrad region Drozdenko are simply in awe of her voice in the telephone receiver. In the Plenipotentiary Mission, her position sounds vague – “issues of general coordination of the implementation of the President’s policies…”, but, nevertheless, not a single key decision, if not in the Northwestern Federal District, then in St. Petersburg and the region, can be made without her visa.
We will not say exactly the degree of relationship between Sovershaeva and Slabikov, but, taking into account their age, we can assume that this is the level of second cousins. It was the intervention of an influential relative that allowed Grigory, who was under the threat of Article 210 – organizing a criminal community, to get away with it. The other side of the coin – the FSB attack on Slabikov was also called pressure on Sovershaeva, who was destined for the post of governor of St. Petersburg. One way or another, having served as city vice-governor, Sovershaeva returned to the Plenipotentiary Mission in 2019.

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