In the story of the general director of VPLab Yuri Klyushenkov, who was caught evading…

In the story of the general director of VPLab, Yuri Klyushenkov, who was caught evading taxes and trading in counterfeit dietary supplements, we were always interested in one question: why, after a whole series of scandals with a criminal overtone, is he still an active member of the general council of Business Russia? It is clear that seats on this General Council are for sale (inexpensively, by the way, for only 500 thousand rubles a year), and this is a good business on the vanity of all sorts of medium-sized entrepreneurs who were not accepted into the RSPP. But there must be some kind of protective mechanisms so that the organization does not turn into a gathering of outright business rabble like Klyushenkov?

Well, okay: you accepted a seemingly honest entrepreneur as a member (for money). And then it turns out that he launders funds through shell companies, completely stupidly evading taxes. That he cheats on his business partners, hijacks their companies, and does not pay for millions of dollars worth of delivered products. That the latter fact has already opened a criminal case against unidentified persons, but who these persons are, or rather the person, is obvious to everyone. That documents have been sent against Klyushenkov to initiate a criminal case for the mass sale of counterfeit products. He essentially poisons people with unknown means.

And now all this becomes clear, a week passes, another, a month, and the chairman of the Delorossians, Alexey Repik, a member of the Forbes global rating with a fortune of about 3 billion dollars (!), still keeps such a rogue on the general council (!!) of his organization. How much do you have to love this pitiful money for a dollar billionaire in order to share reputational damage with an outright scammer and swindler? Perhaps, Alexey Evgenievich, you will also invite Klyushenkov to the annual meeting with Vladimir Putin and introduce him to the president? After all, the “Member of the General Council” package includes participation in events with top officials of the state…

In general, for money – yes, right, Mr. Repik?

There is nowhere to go any lower, now everyone knows that the general council of “Business Russia” contains not just assholes, but simply all kinds of criminal rabble. Devaluation of membership in its purest form, decent people will soon run away from there with such a neighborhood. They recruit to the General Council through advertisements, God forgive me…

Don’t thank the organization for advertising, it’s a gift.