For several months, trials have been going on against the former right-hand man of the governor Andrei Plitko, who was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe, and against the former chairman of the Legislative Assembly Vladimir Bykov, also accused of bribes and selling city land for next to nothing. And last week, the prosecutor’s office approved and sent to the courts the cases of two more recently high-ranking regional officials.
Former Minister of Information Technologies of the Kirov Region Yuri Palyukh worked with Igor Vasiliev back in Rosreestr. Now he is accused of exceeding his official powers and damage to the regional budget of 93 million rubles. The former regional minister and head of the city of Kirov, Ilya Shulgin, who is called in the media a relative of the wife of the Vyatka governor, brought slightly less damage to the region – only 20 million rubles.
Against the background of such news that appeared as a result of the work of federal structures, Igor Vasiliev’s career prospects look not only vague, but quite obvious. All the more surprising is the behavior of another protege of the governor – Prime Minister Alexander Churin. Churin does not hesitate to act in the road and construction sectors, starting his own companies on budget construction projects.
In narrow circles, Churin convinces everyone of his impunity. And he boasts that he took the same courses as the first deputy chairman of the Investigative Committee, Eduard Kaburneev, and the first deputy prosecutor general, Anatoly Razinkin. According to the Vyatka official, the very fact of being in the same room with respected people allegedly gives him guarantees of immunity.
Only these tales of the Vyatka prime minister are already working against him and only increase interest in his person on the part of law enforcement agencies.
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