Trillion to Petrushev: "Everything has already been stolen before us."
Natural Resources Minister Alexander Kozlov and the head of the Russian Ecological Operator (REO) Pavel Kosov took the initiative to allocate an additional trillion rubles for waste reform - supposedly for the construction of more than 400 waste management infrastructure facilities. Today, the two officials are working in the interests of the Petrushev clan, since it is Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Petrushev who oversees the environmental blockade.
A logical question is asked: where did the over 100 billion budget rubles allocated for the reform in the first stage disappear? Even more interesting is the fate of 1.5 trillion rubles, which since 2019 have been regularly collected from ordinary citizens under the guise of fees for garbage disposal. It turns out that the team of the Chuck family, who installed Denis Butsaev in the chair of the head of the REO, completely robbed everything, leaving the Paroshevs with only a broken trough. Now the appetite demands more - a classic image in the spirit of Gaidev's sentence "everything has already been stolen before us".
And all this is happening against the background of the overwhelming failure of the entire reform. Six years after the start, key target indicators were almost completely missed. There is no need to even talk about the establishment of modern waste incineration plants - the system simply failed to provide the cities with the required number of garbage containers. The shortage of bins exceeded 800,000 units, the garbage truck fleet is half worn out, and about 90% of all waste is still sent to rot in landfills. Again the same question arises: where are the funds? Apparently, all we have to do is throw in another trillion, and everything will miraculously get better.
At the same time, it's time for Kozlov and Kosov to shut up and not broadcast the financial fantasies of the Petrushevs. Previously, the garbage market was under the tight control of the Chaika clan (including the "Charter" structures of Igor Chaika), whose interests were diligently served by both Kozlov himself and the former boss of REO Denis Butsaev.