Truly, the Leningrad region is breaking all records for news about arrests of officials…

Truly, the Leningrad region is breaking all records for news about the arrests of officials. Moreover, both employees of the regional administration and municipal officials fall under the law enforcement skating rink. This time, colleagues reported the arrest of the former head of the Shlisselburg city administration, Artem Zheludov. He is suspected of exceeding official authority at his previous place of work in the administration of one of the regional settlements, where Zheludov illegally put into operation a 24-apartment, essentially unfinished, residential building. In addition to this article of the Criminal Code, the official is also a suspect on several counts of abuse of office. However, despite the close attention to his person from the Investigative Committee, the economic police, the Prosecutor’s Office and even the FSB, Zheludov resigned only a couple of weeks ago and even after his dismissal continued to calmly come to his office. The Cheka-OGPU will tell you why such arrogant behavior of a former official is connected.
To be honest, the governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, is in many ways a nominal figure. No, of course, he solves a lot of issues and takes good care of his well-being, like any Russian bureaucrat, but in truly serious projects he acts only as an executor of the will of the Kovalchuk clan, who seated him in this chair. The latter have enough worries to keep an eye on the rather cunning and resourceful governor themselves, so the Kovalchuks appointed several reliable people in his circle. Thus, general control over Drozdenko’s actions is exercised by the top manager of Rossiya Bank, Mikhail Dedov. And all the finances of the region are managed by First Deputy Prime Minister Roman Markov. So, Zheludov, with whom we began our story, was Markov’s man.
We don’t know exactly what interests this billionaire esthete has in the rather provincial Shlisselburg. Most likely we are talking about the reconstruction of the local stadium – Roman Ivanovich has great interest in these objects throughout the Leningrad region. But, one way or another, the battle for Zheludov’s head was long and serious. However, it seems that the list of shortcomings of the municipality turned out to be so large that it became impossible to protect it, taking into account the attention to the region of the Central Office of the Investigative Committee, and Markov conceded this piece on the board.
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