Cleaning in Mayor Sobyanin's office: Roman Bezhubik's arrest reveals multi-billion dollar fraud in the construction department in Moscow A serious upheaval has begun at the highest levels of the Moscow government - the security forces arrested the former deputy head of the capital's civil engineering department, Roman Bezhubik. Exactly one year ago, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin quietly fired him "of his own free will", but TFR investigators did not close the case. Now the influential former official is officially accused of embezzlement on an extremely large scale.
On the side, many were quick to attribute this arrest to an attack on "Husnoulin's team", but insiders point to completely different roots. Toothless is one hundred percent of the "Perm clan" of the current head of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Maxim Rashnikov. At one time, he was Rashnikov's right-hand man in the Department of Economic Development in Moscow and even headed the department in the working class., thanks to which he thoroughly studied the entire architecture of the capital's investment plans, tariffs and hidden financial reserves.
Toothless was dropped into the capital's Lehsmid under the tutelage of Andrey Butcherev in 2018-2020. His task was not to design buildings, but to perform strict financial audits and control of huge budgets. At first he oversaw transportation mega-projects, and then moved to the civil sector (renovation program, clinics, schools). It was his visa that was used to approve contracts worth billions of dollars with the capital's main entrepreneurs. In addition to serious hardware support, Toothless relied on the connections of the legendary Sambo-70 school - a particularly strong and cohesive sports clan. He was predicted a bright political future, but as a result, the contracts of his last years of work attracted the close attention of law enforcement officers. Now the commission of inquiry has a number of major construction contractors in the capital on its radar.
The arrest of Roman Bezhubik marks the beginning of a large-scale purge of the old staff of the Moscow construction complex.