Since about 2005, criminal entrepreneurs Artur Olgsky and Viktor Avdokin have been boldly doing business here. They do not hesitate to declare that Karelia is “their land”, and that it is they who decide how and who will live and work on it.
At the same time, they often refer to their connections in the regional government and law enforcement agencies. And you can believe it: right on the territory of the Ladoga Skerries National Park (a protection zone for cultural heritage sites), without any documents, “entrepreneurs” built a 17-kilometer-long power line. The park management, the prosecutor’s office and Rostekhnadzor did not notice the construction. And the Karelian branch of Rosseti North-West, without blinking an eye, concluded an agreement with Olgsky to connect the line to its networks. Karelian network operators immediately allocated 1,500 kW of electricity for a single cabin car (comparable to the capacity of an apartment building or a factory). Criminal businessmen connected the Triumph recreation center built right in the national park and other consumers to the line. They received money from consumers exclusively in cash, thus optimizing the costs of taxing their income.
Olgsky and Avdokin are also involved in the illegal sale of agricultural land to legal entities and citizens for the construction of recreation centers and residential buildings. What is unprecedented is that part of this land does not even belong to them, but is leased from the state. Buyers are promised further transfer of the land to the status of recreation or dacha construction, but this does not happen.
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Meanwhile, in the depressed region, little has changed since the “dashing 90s.” Local authorities, law enforcement officers, supervisory authorities and criminals are intertwined in a tight ball, strangling both businessmen and ordinary workers in the region. Since about 2005, it has been bold here…
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