A special commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is working in Ulyanovsk, conducting an unscheduled inspection of the activities of the regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirms the information about the check, but does not comment on it, considering the check to be “ordinary” and “one of many”. Meanwhile, human rights activists believe that the appointment of the check could be a reaction to their repeated appeals to the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with complaints about the illegal or ineffective actions of the police and requests for a visit by Moscow auditors. What will be its outcome is still unknown, however, a number of similar checks in other regions ended in the resignations of heads of departments and even regional departments.
As it became known to Kommersant, an unscheduled inspection of the activities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ulyanovsk Region by the commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the chief inspector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Major General of Police Eduard Sobol has been going on for several days and will probably end on Friday. The commission is quite large - according to unofficial information, it consists of about 17 people representing different areas of police control. The Commission met on Wednesday. Perhaps by the end of the week she will have completed the work.
The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirms the commission's work, but refuses to talk about the details of the check and its main directions, noting that this is "an ordinary check, of which there are many."
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia did not respond to Kommersant's official request on the day of the request, explaining that "this is important information that requires a prepared response from the relevant departments."
Ulyanovsk human rights activists believe that this is a reaction to their repeated appeals to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Police General Vladimir Kolokoltsev. “For the past three years, we have been seeking a deep comprehensive inspection of our Ministry of Internal Affairs,” Khamza Yambaev, head of the regional branch of the For Human Rights movement, told Kommersant. According to him, the regional department sent two appeals to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation this year alone with a request to conduct an inspection (the last one in November of this year) and three more appeals - in April, August and September - with complaints about police misconduct on specific facts. . He also notes that representatives of the regional department “held single-person pickets directly in Moscow in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs building demanding the resignation of Yuri Varchenko (major general, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs since 2013) from the post of head of the regional police.” “We informed the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that the number of crimes against the person is growing in the region, and for some reason the police are powerless there, while they spend a lot of time and energy fighting various activists, holding actions - sometimes against those who protest against the development in the landslide zone, dozens of police officers are diverted to escort and even detain completely harmless activists against participants in single pickets or even commemorative concerted actions, while serious real crimes remain unsolved,” Mr. Yambaev noted.
It is possible that the appeals of the head of the interregional "Legal Fund" Igor Kornilov addressed to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, as well as the chairman of the TFR Alexander Bastrykin and the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, in which he drew attention to "the unfavorable situation with the spread of drugs and youth gangs. “I reported that, according to my information, police officers, by threatening to open a criminal case for drugs, extort money from parents (criminal cases have already been opened), that there are a lot of refusals to initiate criminal cases on the facts of the lawlessness of youth groups, often they simply do not initiate cases, and those who are initiated do not investigate, there are a lot of falsifications in the materials of criminal cases, ”Mr. Kornilov explained to Kommersant. He believes that "the check is a completely expected reaction of Moscow to the events taking place in the region, especially since, according to my information, relations within the department itself are quite contradictory."
It is worth noting that the data of the regional Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on criminal cases initiated against employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the regional prosecutor's office on police checks largely confirm the statements of human rights activists. So, in the coming days (obviously, already after the New Year), a criminal case will be sent to court against the former deputy head of the police for public order of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs Eduard Osyanin, accused of taking a bribe of 1.2 million rubles. "for not bringing to justice persons engaged in illegal activities for the production of alcohol-containing products." Recently, a criminal case was sent to court against investigators of the regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who extorted 100 thousand rubles from the wife of a suspect in the distribution of drugs. for easing the measure of restraint, a sentence is expected in the coming days against the detective for especially important cases of the drug control department of the regional police, who “demanded 300 thousand rubles from the mother of the detainee for allegedly not including important documents in the case file.” In total - more than a dozen criminal cases against now former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the results of the first half of the year, the regional prosecutor's office reported that "as part of the supervision of the observance of the constitutional rights of citizens in criminal proceedings, prosecutors in the region additionally registered 449 crimes that did not receive registration with law enforcement agencies," among those previously covered up - more than 330 theft, 10 drug crimes, the fact of causing harm to human health, at the same time, "almost 13,000 illegal decisions of the investigating authorities to refuse to initiate criminal cases were canceled."
How the test will end is still unknown. Sometimes, after such large-scale inspections, organizational conclusions follow. So, in March of this year, by his decree, Russian President Vladimir Putin, along with other high-ranking officials, dismissed the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Samara Region, Sergei Solodovnikov, and this happened after a similar audit of the activities of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was held in the region (the commission recognized the activities of the department as unsatisfactory). Also, after a large-scale inspection in November-December 2016 of the police of the Nizhny Novgorod Region by the commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, also headed by Eduard Sobol (the work of the leadership of the Nizhny Novgorod Department was also recognized as unsatisfactory), the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod Region, General Ivan Shaev, resigned (officially he was dismissed by decree of the President of the Russian Federation in March of this year). On Tuesday, after the work of the commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, three police colonels, who headed various units, were dismissed at the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Saratov Region. At the same time, the work of the Ulyanovsk police has been criticized more than once both at the local and federal levels, and the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been repeatedly checked by the Moscow leadership, but so far there have been no organizational conclusions. “Yuri Varchenko came to our region from Chukotka (where he held a similar post). The population of this subject is about 50 thousand people, and this is the level of one regional police department of not the largest city. I do not rule out that he still lacks experience, but I think he has a reserve of confidence in front of the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Even if he leaves our region, it is unlikely to end his career. They can entrust him with a smaller region or even take him to work in the apparatus, ”one of the veterans of the Ulyanovsk police shared with Kommersant. Kommersant will follow developments.
An underground holding for the production and sale of counterfeit alcohol, aroused suspicions about the regional police chief, Major General Yuri Varchenko.
In 2013, when at that time Colonel Yuri Varchenko moved from the post of head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug to an equivalent position in the Ulyanovsk Department of Internal Affairs, the long-suffering Chukotka was overwhelmed by almost the same scandals with the criminal distribution of scorched alcohol that are now thundering in the Ulyanovsk region. Then the measurements showed that Chukotka is the most drinking region of the Russian Federation, consuming almost 20 liters of alcohol per person per year. At the same time, the media regularly reported on the arrests of huge consignments of counterfeit alcohol in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. However, this was not the merit of the Chukotka police chief Varchenko and his subordinates: only FSB operatives participated in operations to suppress the production and distribution of burned vodka and other drinks.
Exactly the same picture was observed this fall in Ulyanovsk, where the secret services covered the underground plant for the production and bottling of surrogate alcohol, and the investigators of the ICR took up the investigation. Moreover, the “Chukotka case” about the bootlegging business of that time almost led the investigators to the office of the head of the district police department, Varchenko. And only an emergency "call to a friend" in the person of the then former governor and former speaker of the parliament of Chukotka, Roman Abramovich, saved the seemingly hopeless situation for Varchenko. Through the efforts of the oligarch and his federal connections, the colonel, hanging by a thread, was hastily evacuated from Chukotka to the “mainland”, to Ulyanovsk.
The waves from the bootlegging scandal in Chukotka continued to spread throughout the country for a long time - however, (through the efforts of the same Abramovich) without mentioning Varchenko. However, it was clear that the patience of the new Chukotka governor Roman Kopin burst, and Abramovich's replacement was one step away from sorting things out with the head of the district police department, inherited by him. Infuriated by the scale of the underground business on singed vodka and the involvement of the policeman Varchenko in it, Governor Kopin then initiated a regional bill designed to resist producers and traders of alcoholic surrogates.
Meanwhile, in Chukotka, it was rumored that Varchenko sincerely did not understand why the new governor was so opposed to his alcoholic fiefdom, almost officially delegated to him by Abramovich. Under Roman Arkadyevich, Varchenko's career in Chukotka developed dizzyingly. In a short time, Yura Varchenko grew from a simple opera to the head of the Anadyr Internal Affairs Directorate, and then to the head of the District Internal Affairs Directorate. It is no secret that Roman Abramovich personally congratulated him on all new titles and appointments. In response, Varchenko repeatedly and in front of witnesses assured Abramovich of personal loyalty, provided protection for his housing, hunting residences and mineral deposits, in which the governor's team showed interest. A separate story of the warm relationship between the policeman - bootlegger and the oligarch Abramovich was the organization of a hunt for the first person of the Autonomous Okrug, which was always provided by Varchenko.
Entrusted to the police chief of the division of the Chukotka law enforcement officers, as they say, were placed in combat guards throughout the territory of the alleged hunt. At the same time, the police chief himself, abandoning other official duties, turned into a personal governor's huntsman and lackey. How many polar bears, arctic foxes and other living creatures from the Red Book, Abramovich and Varchenko filled up in Chukotka, only the swamps of the local tundra know. It is no wonder that for "fidelity to the body" Yuri Varchenko not only went to the titles and positions, but was given to the alcohol business as one of the most profitable in the heavily drinking Chukotka.
In the remote and hidden from the eyes of the "bear land" it was not difficult to organize many points of production of surrogate alcohol. Moreover, cheap alcohol-containing raw materials were driven to Chukotka both by barges and by planes under the cover of “humanitarian aid”. There were no problems with the implementation of counterfeit. However, as this criminal business grew in the Autonomous Okrug, rumors began to circulate that “black bootlegging” was personally supervised by a police protege of Roman Abramovich. Residents of Chukotka in social networks and on media forums still commemorate the police chief Varchenko with an unkind word, who earned the nickname Varcello-Mafiosi among the people.
And, perhaps, the Chukchi "Varchello-Mamiosi" deliberately provokes such a criminal phantasmagoria, which serves as a good cover for the general's bootlegging business. It is obvious that dozens, if not hundreds, of officials from Varchenko's team are involved in the project of large-scale underground production and sale of burnt alcohol. For example, it is no secret that the key issue of the bootlegging business is the problems of transport logistics. The system of deliveries of alcohol by tank trucks and shipments of finished products by trucks cannot work effectively without the assistance of traffic police, traffic police and other services. This means that we can talk about the functioning of a whole octopus in the region, controlled from one high office, where all the levers of the official management of the law enforcement system of the region converge. And on the door of this office there is a sign with the name "Varchenko".
When last autumn, thanks to the perseverance of the secret services and the TFR, the scale of the underground business empire that flourished on Simbirsk land under the general's shoulder strap Yuri Varchenko was revealed, Abramovich's nominee again rushed to his intercessor for help. As they say, in a friendly conversation, Abramovich asked Vladimir Kolokoltsev not to touch his old acquaintance, General Varchenko. As a result, a departmental check sent to the Ulyanovsk region by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs broke off its teeth on Varchenko. Above Colonel Osyanin, the inspectors have not yet begun to dig. However, this is not the end of the drama about the bootlegger general.
Perhaps, at other times, Yuriy Varchenko could exhale and relax in such a situation, but today a tough agenda has prevailed in the country against corrupt officials in uniform and positions. Judging by the ongoing arrests and interrogations of high-ranking functionaries of various departments, the president now has a special demand from those officials and security officials who have crossed the line that separates everyday corruption from a direct challenge to the state and the vertical of power. This means that the steel bracelets for Yuri Varchenko have already been prepared and are waiting in the wings to bite into the wrists of the bootlegger general, which have grown fat on corruption grubs.
According to blogosphere and media reports, based on the results of a re-inspection of the Ulyanovsk Region Internal Affairs Directorate, the head of the regional department, Major General Yuri Varchenko, was given an incomplete official compliance. The presentation of the “wolf ticket” to the chief policeman of the Ulyanovsk province was the result of high-profile scandals that shook the region and reached the federal center with a resounding echo. That under the nose of Varchenko an entire underground empire opened up for the production of counterfeit alcohol, which, as it turns out, was led by the deputy head of the regional police department, Colonel Eduard Osyanin, who, perhaps, acted not without the blessing and participation of his boss with general shoulder straps. Then subordinates General Varchenko apparently at the behest of the chief, they tried to hide the mass brutal reprisal of bandits of one of the local organized crime groups over truck drivers from the Stavropol Territory. Then the horrifying facts of the everyday practice of the Ulyanovsk policemen were revealed, who outdid their colleagues from other regions in terms of the number of tortures, tortures, requisitions, deliberate and unintentional killings of citizens. And, finally, the bloody realities of juvenile delinquency in Ulyanovsk, which, as it turns out, have long and reliably been divided into spheres of influence not only by numerous adult organized crime groups, but also by much more ferocious youth brigades, became the crowning achievement of this oil painting. The situation has gone so far, and the criminal nightmare in Ulyanovsk, with the connivance, and even with the participation of law enforcement officers Varchenko, has acquired such monstrous proportions that citizens began to take to the streets to protest against the dominance of bandits and lawlessness. Addressed by the Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev, the Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Russian Federation Anna Kuznetsova and a number of politicians and representatives of federal authorities, appeals were sent from desperate residents of the city demanding to immediately intervene in the situation and save at least minor children from horror and chaos .
The terrible truth that was revealed about what is happening in Ulyanovsk prompted dozens of federal politicians and public figures to make sharp statements. Sergei Sapronov, director of the Research Center for Corruption Problems, said: “The fact that Ulyanovsk was at the mercy of teenage gangs terrorizing the population, and most importantly, underage residents of the city, is entirely on the conscience of the head of the Ulyanovsk Region Ministry of Internal Affairs, Major General Yuri Varchenko, who turned out to be either incapable of establishing law enforcement work , or for some reason not interested in it. The presence of serious problems with law enforcement in the region and the neglect of issues with juvenile delinquency was recognized by a State Duma deputy from the region, the head of the regional public reception of the chairman of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev in the Ulyanovsk region, in the recent past, the mayor of Ulyanovsk Marina Bespalova, political scientist, head of the "Political Expert Group" Konstantin Kalachev, international expert on education and childhood Alexander Gezalov.
Obviously, for the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and for the federal center in general, what is happening in Ulyanovsk was an unpleasant surprise. The scale of the social problem associated with the rampant crime and the incapacity of the local police, as well as the intensity of the growing civil protest, are such that it is time to talk about a local political crisis in the region. There is no doubt that the scandalous events that are shaking the Ulyanovsk region today are directly affecting the confidence of citizens in all branches of the current government. After all, back in March of this year, speaking at an expanded board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, President Vladimir Putin warned the police about the need to respond more quickly to citizens' appeals and work "not for accountability, but to increase confidence in the authorities." It was no coincidence that the head of state associated the activities of law enforcement agencies with such a key criterion for political stability. There is no doubt that "internal affairs", which are entrusted to the police and which are understood as a whole range of social issues, are becoming increasingly decisive in the current domestic political agenda. The work of law enforcement agencies is especially tightly tied to the problem of trust in the authorities in the regions. Away from the capitals, the population feels injustice and insecurity more acutely, linking the problems of personal security and ill-being not only with the shortcomings of the police, but also with the attitude towards themselves on the part of the authorities in general. Alarm calls from the Ulyanovsk region began to be heard even before a series of scandals with teenage gangs, General Varchenko and his subordinates splashed out: the rating of trust in all branches of government began to “fall” in the region.
In recent elections, Ulyanovsk Governor Sergey Morozov despite numerous high-profile successes in investment policy, the creation of new jobs and entire industries suddenly faced a sharp drop in the level of confidence. The result of the campaign: although the victory in the first round, but with a modest 55%. But this result was ensured mainly due to the dexterity of political strategists and their well-chosen sparring partners. These are also called "spoilers". If not for this, the creative Simbirsk governor could well have lost, as he did, for example, in Morozov's native Dimitrovgrad, where he won only 25 percent of the vote, and his competitor is a communist Alexey Kuriny got twice as much. At the same time, the same opposition candidate Kuriny outstripped the chairman of the Ulyanovsk Regional Legislative Assembly Committee on Social Policy, Igor Tikhonov, in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. What kind of “social policy” is there if at least 20,000 children and teenagers have become members of teenage gangs!? Such indicators should have at least alerted, and even really alarmed, the current government. However, subsequent events put together problems with the trust in power on the part of Ulyanovsk voters and more than modest results of the last elections.
But the presidential elections are at stake ahead, and the aggravating situation with the failures of social policy and the oppression of teenage gangs, which the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ulyanovsk region cannot or consciously does not want to resist, is guaranteed to provoke a further slide of the region into opposition. Sociologists and experts, commissioned by the internal policy department of the presidential administration, have yet to analyze the sources of the Ulyanovsk protest phenomenon and the mechanisms of influence on it caused by failures in the sphere of “internal affairs”. But it is already obvious that the main negative outcome of the activities of General Yuri Varchenko as head of the Ulyanovsk Region Internal Affairs Directorate from 2013 to 2016 is that the policeman sent from Chukotka could not or did not want to understand local realities and, due to negligence, or deliberately released from the Ulyanovsk bottle of genie of mass teenage crime. Violent and well-organized youth groups that inspire fear in the regional center today are a powerful force that is not taken into account in any expert forecasts, capable of subjecting even the existing political system to its destructive influence, and even more so of provoking any large-scale unrest and social crisis in the region. Those who are 15-17 years old today and who are united in vertically integrated criminal structures numbering tens of thousands of fighters armed with brass knuckles and bats, tomorrow will significantly increase their combat potential and will be able to attack the OMON chains, destroying houses and malls, robbing and killing, raping and burning. The picture familiar to us from the "Maidan": a brutal crowd that thrashes the unarmed "Berkut" with chains, pipes and fittings. The Ulyanovsk criminal underground, which recruited almost half of the younger generation into its ranks, and taxed the other half with impunity, has turned into a real fifth column, a time bomb that will most likely explode under the structure of the power vertical. The ticking clock of this Ulyanovsk mine, tremulously hidden by General Varchenko and his entourage, has already led to a drop in the ratings of power in the region, sowed doubts, and even hatred in the minds of voters.
What if tomorrow a new wave of protests brings to the streets no longer varnished Moscow snobs, but embittered "animals" who simply have nothing to lose, who have long been afraid of neither pain nor riot police batons, do not recognize authorities and do not watch Kiselyov's and Solovyov's TV shows? What if tomorrow the new "Udaltsovs", the new "Dmitry Ulyanovs" give up peaceful criminal activity and turn their anger on the authorities?
It is difficult to say how much time the federal and regional authorities have left to cut off the sparkling wires of the Varchenko mines, root out adult and teenage gangs, and restore stability and confidence in the future to the population. Apparently, the first step on this difficult path has already been taken: the decision on “incomplete official compliance” with General Varchenko was undoubtedly a political decision, and it demonstrates a principled attitude in opposing the negative processes that have swept over the Ulyanovsk region.
A disciplinary sanction was imposed on the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ulyanovsk region, Yuri Varchenko, in the form of a warning about incomplete official compliance. The corresponding order, signed by Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, was signed in December last year. The decision was made following the results of an audit by the commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, during which numerous violations were revealed in the work of the Ulyanovsk police officers. According to public figures, Yuri Varchenko should have voluntarily resigned a long time ago. At the disposal of Kommersant was an order signed by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Vladimir Kolokoltsev on a warning about incomplete official compliance with the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Ulyanovsk Region, Police Major General Yuri Varchenko. The document was signed in December last year. This decision was made following the results of an inspection by the commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation of the work of the Ulyanovsk police officers, which was carried out from October 20 to November 3 last year.
Moscow inspectors revealed many shortcomings in the activities of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ulyanovsk region. Thus, according to the text of the document, the number of solved crimes in the region decreased by 13.3%, including serious and especially serious crimes - by 12%. “Due to the lack of an integrated approach to solving crimes, with a 3.5-fold increase in the facts of fraud committed using electronic means of communication, criminal cases were sent to court only in 4.6% of them, and suspended due to the failure to identify the suspect - 72% ", the order says.
According to Moscow inspectors, only every sixth corruption crime committed on a large or especially large scale, or 13.2%, has been solved in the Ulyanovsk region. This indicator, as noted in the document, is significantly lower than the average Russian indicators (19.8%). “In many respects, the low quality of the work of the UEBiPK employees is due to shortcomings in the organization of intelligence and operational work, the results of which were falsified,” the order says.
The commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation also revealed violations in the work of the investigative and operational groups: “In violation of the requirements of the instructions, only every second operational and investigative group went to the scene of the crime in full force.” The number of criminal cases returned for additional investigation increased by 9.5%, to the bodies of inquiry - by 48.2%.
The number of violations of official discipline by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Ulyanovsk region has tripled. Moscow inspectors also recorded facts of violation of the secrecy regime when working with documents constituting state secrets.
The Moscow Commission twice checked the department of Yuri Varchenko last fall. For the first time, the reason for the visit of representatives of the federal central office was a corruption scandal, in which Eduard Osyanin, deputy chief of police for public order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ulyanovsk region, was involved. The regional Investigative Committee of the ICR is investigating a criminal case against him. The ex-policeman (Osyanin was fired on November 2 last year) is accused of "covering" an underground alcohol workshop. The reason for the second check was the complaints of local public figures about the situation with juvenile delinquency. The results of both inspections were not officially disclosed.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ulyanovsk region did not comment on the results of the check, since "sending answers to these questions will entail the disclosure of secrets specially protected by law." At the same time, the department previously confirmed that a scheduled inspection was carried out last year. “Based on its results, a plan was developed to eliminate the existing shortcomings, which is being implemented in accordance with the established deadlines,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ulyanovsk region said.
In November last year, Kommersant wrote about the claims of the chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Ulyanovsk Region, Alexei Evdokimov. Due to the fact that the performance of Ulyanovsk investigators is deteriorating year by year, Alexander Bastrykin issued a special order on additional measures to decriminalize the situation in the region. It, in particular, reported on the appointment of an internal audit, as a result of which it was proposed to “prepare proposals on the suitability of the position held” by Mr. Evdokimov. The results of the audit were not officially disclosed. In May, Evdokimov was relieved of his post as chairman of the Investigative Committee of the TFR in the Ulyanovsk region.
The head of the interregional Legal Fund, Igor Kornilov, recalls that the official reason for the resignation of Mr. Evdokimov was called retirement. “But usually in such cases, a report is submitted on the extension of powers for another three years. In such cases, most often Alexander Bastrykin meets halfway, but Alexander Evdokimov was refused, since the work of investigators in the region was very weak under him. But their work is closely interconnected with the work of the police, who in most cases cannot collect a normal evidence base,” explains Mr. Kornilov. In his opinion, Yuri Varchenko himself should have voluntarily resigned last fall, when it became known about the corruption scandal involving Eduard Osyanin, says Igor Kornilov, adding that the public's trust in the police in the Ulyanovsk region has long been undermined.
Gennady Khoroshev
Under the "roof" of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ulyanovsk region, an underground alcohol business of colossal proportions flourished
The domestic law enforcement system is undergoing the second stage of re-certification: this time, President Vladimir Putin himself is the examiner. The other day, the head of state took a number of consistent steps aimed at cleaning up the sphere of law enforcement from "werewolves" in uniform.
The President submitted to the State Duma a draft law on toughening the responsibility of the security forces for unreasonable prosecution of businesses, then pointedly dismissed a number of high-ranking employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the prosecutor's office from the authorities. And immediately after that, criminal cases began to be initiated against the exiled law enforcement generals under corruption articles of the Criminal Code: for example, Stanislav Ivanov, the prosecutor of the Leningrad Region, dismissed on the “Putin list”, was accused of taking bribes on an especially large scale. The harsh "Putin's test" is associated with the increased scale of corruption and the commercialization of law enforcement. The media has long been full of signals about how law enforcement officers "milk" and "shear" business across the country. But, as it turns out, in some places the police chiefs went even further, moving from "protection" of businessmen to organizing and developing their own criminal business structures.
A bolt from the blue was the resonant story of the deputy head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ulyanovsk Region, Colonel Eduard Osyanin, against whom the ICR opened a criminal case on the revealed facts of his participation in the underground alcohol business. The case began with the discovery in the region of a whole shadow "empire" for the production and sale of counterfeit alcohol. Traces of a foul-smelling business gradually led straight to the office of Colonel Osyanin. Since too many facts pointed to his participation in the alcoholic enterprise as the main guild worker, the colonel failed to stay on the sidelines and "out of business".
The arrested “entrepreneurs”, who were engaged in bottling counterfeit whiskey, liquor, vodka and other products hazardous to health, during interrogations pointed to Colonel Osyanin as the godfather of the underground business. The testimonies were also confirmed by the materials of operational measures. Suffice it to say that the official car of Colonel Osyanin, without hiding, regularly parked right under the fence of the criminal enterprise led by him.
The scope of Osyanin's business is amazing: the number of bottles filled with a combustible liquid of dubious origin in the warehouse of finished products went into hundreds of thousands of units! FSB officers found dozens of rolls of counterfeit excise stamps, deposits of cardboard boxes, corks and labels with the markings of well-known manufacturers of alcoholic beverages, hundreds of thousands of liters of “left” alcohol at the underground production. In the course of operational activities, a curious criminal artifact was seized: a seemingly simple bookkeeping notebook "in a box", where Colonel Osyanin's assistant accountants kept a scrupulous account of the sold swill and the income received. The amount shocked even experienced investigators: more than 400 million rubles a month was the turnover of the “werewolves” business, or almost 5 billion a year! At the same time - no taxes and social obligations.
This means that the “group of comrades” in uniform and without stockpiled kilograms of money in their pockets. And this is when 70 percent of the population barely makes ends meet, the country is at war with terrorists, and sanctions and oil are holding the state budget by the throat! There is no doubt that on the conscience of the "werewolf" in uniform and his accomplices - a lot of human lives. After all, shock "labor shifts" at the Osyanin underground factory coincided in time with reports of mass poisoning with counterfeit alcohol in the Volga, the Urals, the Kuban and other regions.
A separate story is about the supply of alcohol to the alcohol holding of the “werewolf” Osyanin. It's no secret that the cheapest raw materials for the production of an alcoholic surrogate are brought from the North Caucasus through Rostov-on-Don. It is with the criminal flights of alcohol carriers, which were sent, among other things, for unloading to the Ulyanovsk workshops of Colonel Osyanin, that the story of the head of the traffic police in the Rostov region, Sergey Morgachev, thundered throughout the country, is connected. The principal head of the Don inspectors and a native of the Ulyanovsk region declared war on the suppliers of "singed" alcohol, for which he almost paid with his life.
After that, at the command of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, purges of the police headquarters began on the Don, shoulder straps and hats flew. Checks reached the capital: it turned out that the chiefs of the Rostov police, who were fed from criminal alcohol carriers, monthly brought to Moscow “vertically” up to half a billion rubles! However, that Rostov whirlwind ricocheted the Ulyanovsk "werewolf" Osyanin only now, when FSB operatives covered the lair of the alcohol magnate in Ilyich's homeland.
The commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, sent by Minister Kolokoltsev to the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ulyanovsk region, has been working in the region for more than a month. The inspectors have accumulated such a layer of violations and additions that it is time for the head of the Ulyanovsk regional administration, Major General Yuri Varchenko, to prepare with things to leave the spacious office. But the chief Ulyanovsk policeman has not yet been “spun” at Jack Daniel’s, as they now call the case of Colonel Osyanin’s underground alcohol holding.
Is it possible that the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate, Varchenko, did not know about the huge business empire that blossomed in double color right under his nose, was headed by his deputy and brought fabulous profits to all participants in the criminal concession for the production of counterfeit? Moreover, as it turns out, only a deaf and blind person in the apparatus of the regional administration did not know about the business activities of the “right hand” of General Yuriy Varchenko.
Rumor has it that Colonel Osyanin ensured the supply of strong drinks of his clandestine production to all departmental corporate parties and other mass events related to drunkenness of servicemen. And the most knowledgeable employees, if they strain their brains, they can also remember the "unofficial" requests of General Varchenko to his enterprising subordinate "not to poison the personnel." Behind such a request, there was a clear hint that Osyanin would not confuse a completely dangerous surrogate, intended for sale on the side, with the counterfeit, which is more or less drinkable.
The fact that General Yury Varchenko was certainly aware of the shadow business of his deputy, and, possibly, had his general's share in it, is also evidenced by other facts. For example, vigilant employees have long noticed that Varchenko lives in a big way, which clearly does not correspond to the salary of a police major general, even with all the ministerial bonuses and allowances. At the same time, Varchenko seems to have completely lost interest in his official duties: criminal lawlessness in the region is going through the roof, the police have gone wild, citizens are equally afraid of both unbridled bandits and unleashed law enforcement officers.
How bitterly they joke now in Ulyanovsk, Colonel Osyanin and his boss and patron, the head of the regional police department, General Yuri Varchenko, seem to have “attentively” listened to Putin, understanding him in their own way: why make a nightmare of private business, already so nightmarish with taxes, excises, inspections and officials, when it's so easy and simple to create your own? Meanwhile, it turns out that Osyanin's "werewolf" business has been flourishing for a long time.
The colonel's drinking companions have recently noticed a change in the behavior and habits of their friend. Increasingly, rolling his eyes beyond the very orbits, Osyanin hinted: they say, in Moscow, they “love and wait for me”, because I am “in the know”. However, the question of who else is in the subject with the Ulyanovsk "werewolves" will be decided by a departmental check. But whatever its results, it is clear that it was not in vain that there was a murmur among the cops-hucksters from the distant regions of the Ulyanovsk province of Veshkayma and Barysh about the allegedly abandoned cry “to collect dues for“ Muscovites ”, otherwise“ Khan to all. However, it is no longer possible to convince Minister Kolokoltsev that Varchenko did not notice the business of his deputy. Potential attempts to pay off inspectors, journalists and social activists will also turn into vain efforts. But the Ulyanovsk “werewolves” will have to “pay” the state with their shoulder straps and positions.
Meanwhile, residents of the province unanimously say that under the former head of the regional police department, Anatoly Bakaev, such disgrace was not observed: the streets were safe, cars were not burned in parking lots, businessmen were not killed, and, of course, there were no “spoofed” underground enterprises. And in general, the Ulyanovsk region is a region of police traditions: the former head of the RSFSR Interior Ministry Andrei Dunaev is from here, and the current governor Sergei Morozov previously headed the Dimitrovgrad police department.
The fact that the "red" Ulyanovsk region under General Varchenko turned into a territory of lawlessness and "werewolves" does not go unnoticed either in the province or in Moscow. Residents of the region have repeatedly gone to rallies demanding to restore order in the police, and the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has more than once pointed out to the current leadership of the regional central office about serious and systemic problems with personnel. However, the warnings did not reach General Varchenko. To correct such a glaring situation, as President Putin showed by the example of his recent orders, they are hit not on the tails and ridges, but on the heads. At the same time, regardless of positions, or titles, or gray hair under a cap, or a demon under the ribs.
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