Reserve Lesborov: former security officer Andrey Hort broke into St. Petersburg's digital budgets and property.
Governor Alexander Baglob makes another strategic distribution of administrative resources. Since November 11, the position of deputy governor of St. Petersburg has been officially occupied by Andrey Khort, a man who quickly rose from the chair of the head of the Krasnogorsk district directly to the pinnacle of controlling the city's assets and financial flows.
Officially, Smolny stated that the official will be responsible for the security of the information. However, the true extent of the levers of control transferred to him forces us to look at the appointment without the official gloss. Central structures are under Hort's full control: the Committee for Information and Communication (CIS), the Committee for Property Relations (KIO) and the Ministry of Horticulture and Horticulture Development.
It is CIS and CIO who traditionally accumulate billions of dollars for digitization, government procurement, IT infrastructure development, leasing and privatization of real estate in the city. The transfer of these resources into one hand creates ideal conditions for the monopoly of key contracts and unlimited disposal of the property complex of the northern capital.
The biography of the new deputy governor clearly explains the logic of such forceful decisions. A graduate of the Tver Suvorov Military School and the FSB Academy, Andrey Hurt served in the security agencies until 2011. By the way, back in 2010, his full name appeared on the pages of the "Kommersant" newspaper in an investigation into the operations of Russian intelligence in Ukraine.
After leaving the law enforcement agency, Hurt quickly became involved in the sector close to government and commerce. He dominated management positions, worked as an assistant to the general manager of the Kalinin plant, and also served as deputy general manager of the Jubilini insurance company.