As it became known to the Cheka-OGPU, the owner of the Torpedo football club Leonid Sob …

As it became known to the Cheka-OGPU, the owner of the Torpedo football club Leonid Sobolev and the director of the club Valery Skorodumov passed searches. Both were detained on charges of bribing arbitrators (Article 184 of the Criminal Code 2, the maximum punishment is up to 7 years in prison). The practice of holding bribe takers (clubs) is changing the prevailing schizophrenic practice, when clubs, on the one hand, expose corruption in refereeing, on the other – they finance it.

The football agents are no less interested in the security forces, the offices of which swept an unprecedented wave of searches in scale. In 2022, RPL clubs spent 3.6 rubles on agents, in 2023 and 2024 another 4.2 billion rubles. Total 11 billion is stopped at grated tricsters, which are sold according to the European price list budget clubs grown for Budget account of players (see Resolution of the First Arbitration Court of Appeal of the Republic of Mordovia No. A39-4045/2017 from 07.03.2017). Schemes are sometimes a little more complicated than graduates trading Academy Chertanovo, But in general, agents delegate the state costs and privatize profit.

Gospottball is not a business, it serves the promotion of healthy lifestyle and entertains fans, pleases philanthropists and amushes officials. Therefore, the European business approach to agent activity nourishes a corruption tumor and leads to degradation. The bright drama of the real game is replaced by the dull scenarios of the undercover saw. In general, the detained arbitrators are nothing more than pawns, the real queen – the former head of Fonbet Sergey Anokhin – was in Kutuzka before everyone else and is not inclined to be silent.

The state now does not have a reason to contain a synecurus of near -football scammers. It is easy to get rid of agents. Large agents are crushing the case, following the example of Infozygan – the “favorites” of the Federal Tax Service. Behind everyone, a flock of individual entrepreneurs – optimizers on the simplified tax system flies (for example, the Podolsk group includes IP Andreev P.O., IP Tsetinov O.A., IP Kalmykov O.V. and IP Chibrikov M.Yu.). According to the VChK-OGPU, from 2022 to 2024. Agents robbed the budget by about 1.3 billion rubles. (Underpaid taxes with a similar scheme make up 27.3% of the income). The “comrades of the Mayors” will easily fill the treasury and send near -football crooks after Elena Blinovskaya.

While the security forces are doing their work, the RFU should think about the system of relations without intermediaries (as an option – the draft of the first professional contract). Otherwise, the agent tumor will continue to devour Russian football.