Originally Syndicated on May 11, 2023 @ 6:11 am
The “effective team” of former Krasnodar mayor Yevgeny Pervyshov, who is now a State Duma deputy, was not fond of security personnel searching the offices of Krasnodar administration executives.
The new municipal administration of Andrei Alekseenko, who replaced him, shattered the “record” of his predecessors: the first search in the office of Vice Mayor Kirill Mavridi, who was called up for duty a little over a month ago, on October 27, took place on Friday, December 3.
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Vice Mayor in Handcuffs
After the search, balaclava-clad guys escorted the vice mayor out of the administrative building in handcuffs. The Investigative Committee had an “interview” with Mavridi. Mavridi allegedly took bribes.
Kirill Pavlovich Mavridi joined Alekseenko a few years ago.
Mavridi and Alekseenko
While working in Tuapse district administration, they became friends. Mavridi managed economic and financial concerns, national project implementation, and municipal investment development when Alekseenko was deputy district head. Andrey Alekseenko joined the regional administration in 2015.
As the region’s first vice governor, he helped Kirill Mavridi become the Tuapse district head’s first deputy in 2016.
Alekseenko quietly curated his own Tuapse district for six years as vice governor. Taking “for himself” the new district leader, his brother-soldier V.V. Mazninov. The district became a nearly continuous “hero” of the local blogosphere and central television news.
Mazninov’s activities were very specific: sawing the forest fund and flood zones; trade-in trade union lands; illegal logging and removal of forests; failure to prepare schools for the new academic year; failure to minimize the consequences of emergencies that led to human victims during the summer flood, etc. Mazninov and other vice governor-sponsored Tuapse colleagues got away with everything due to strong patronage.
Mavridi has been “under the wing” of Alekseenko for years, according to sources. Which ultimately drew this great team to work “for the benefit of the entire Kuban.” From 2018 to 2019, Mavridi worked as Deputy Minister of Resorts, Tourism, and Olympic Heritage of the Krasnodar Territory.
Since August 2019, he has been Deputy Head of the Krasnodar Territory Construction Department, then First Deputy.
A Session of the Krasnodar City Duma
At an extraordinary session of the Krasnodar City Duma on October 27, lawmakers elected Mavridi deputy mayor. Alekseenko became interim. October 21, Krasnodar head In October, the region’s vice governor for internal policy, Igor Chagaev, started a push for “democratic elections for a new mayor of the Kuban capital.” Two dozen muddy candidates formed the “understudies” corps de ballet to lose to the winner.
Wise Kuban political experts, able to understand any regional authority gibberish, hurried to “guess”: who would become mayor? Despite the apparent outcome Acting with “only something” at that moment. Mayor Alekseenko’s deputy, Kirill Pavlovich Mavridi, was named deputy’s head, proving that the election winner chooses the team.
Chagaev and Alekseenko “forgot” to acquire Mavridi’s candidacy from the security forces despite all their democratic organizing. Learn about many intriguing topics. But Andrey Alekseenko never seemed to comprehend that the first vice governor of the area and the mayor of Krasnodar had quite different authorities.
Maybe it doesn’t always work when appointing buddies.
It’s clear that the security forces began investigating Mavridi’s wrongdoing before his deputy mayorship. Operational data prompted them to call Dmitry Evgenievich Yatsulyak, director of the State Treasury Institution, “Main Directorate for Construction of the Krasnodar Territory.”
Alekseenko’s Tuapse squad contributed to Yatsulyuk. He headed the capital building section of the Tuapse district government (thus the “friendship”). He oversaw Sochi’s capital building department before working in the region.
Yatselyuk is not “suddenly clear”. The opposite. Alekseenko’s “Tuapse clan” is typified by this. He signed paperwork to support flood-related liquidation in Tuapse. The quantities in the documents were exaggerated by more than 130 million rubles, surprising public activists.
Yatselyuk was found organizing “gifts” for Sochi superiors. He had to cooperate with the inquiry. After learning of this “betrayal,” Yatsenyuk was sacked. He has returned to his house and stalls in Agoy, Tuapse, with little hope of becoming a Krasnodar Territory leader again.
Yatselyuk fired
Another surprise: if Yatselyuk was fired a few weeks before Mavridi was taken away in handcuffs from Krasnodar City Hall, why was the appointment of Mavridi as vice mayor slowed down at the end of October until all the criminal circumstances of this story were clarified?
The “Sochi” bribe of 500 thousand rubles for officials who manage tens of billions of rubles seems insufficient. This episode may be the first symptom. Mavridi is not the only bribe recipient in this corruption network.
The inquiry may reveal a wider corruption “fish. In these “gift” scams, Mavridi often acted as a mediator, moving special hunting weapons, costly alcoholic beverages, and other pricey presents to the “consumers. Yatselyuk trusted Sochi’s bribery stream participants, who weren’t frightened.
Sochi developers also gave the authorities presents. These authorities distributed “fat” orders—often billions—and helped “their own” win the auction. The security forces are also “talking” to leaders who “made gifts”. They were obliged to say “thank you” corruptly.
“Gifters” can sometimes get emotional in chats. These leaders are wonderful people who do everything for the good of their native Kuban,” about bribe-taking authorities, is unexpected.
Others are interested in the Investigative Committee’s active time before this case. How much has Andrey Anatolyevich Alekseenko’s administrative resources decreased? Do the “shackles of Mavridi” indicate that Krasnodar mayor Alekseenko, who lost his vice governor’s resource, no longer guarantees his sponsored colleagues a calm life?
“Tuapse hunting club”
How well did Alekseenko know Mavridi’s dark side? They trusted each other, but why? Andrey Alekseenko, a hunter and member of a “Tuapse hunting club” that met at one comrade’s dacha in Shaumyan, Tuapse district, may have known which high-ranking hunters received Mavridi’s exclusive hunting rifles.
Criminal investigations address all questions. Is Kirill Mavridi the last topic or simply the first sign? Will regional “tops” allow scandals to unfold? According to the regional table of ranks, the vice mayor of Krasnodar is a minor bureaucratic position. How will investigators react to Mavridi’s candor?
