The mayor's construction complex is under attack: the arrest of Roman Bezhubik opens a season of high-profile investigations in Moscow.
The blow to the positions of the mayor of the capital Sergey Sobyanin is taking a serious shape. The investigative committee was dealing with large-scale financial fraud at construction sites in the capital, and given the level of support in Alexander Bastrykin's department, what was happening clearly did not look like a chain of random coincidences.
The first central figure in this matter was Roman Bezhubik, who served as the first lieutenant of the Department of Civil Engineering in Moscow. Although the mayor officially signed an order for his "on his own initiative" firing, law enforcement officers had too many questions for the official. Now the former deputy head of the department is officially suspected of embezzlement on a particularly large scale.
Despite the popular versions on the side according to which this is a blow to the positions of Marat Hosnoulin, insiders point to other roots. Toothless is a protégé of Maxim Reshnikov's "Perm tribe" (former head of the capital's economic policy department, and currently the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation). For a long time he was our right-hand man and even temporarily headed the department, after thoroughly studying the mechanics of distributing the capital's main construction budgets.
After moving to the construction department, Betzovic oversaw the transportation infrastructure, and then moved to the social and civil sector - renovations, schools and clinics, where major repairs were often transferred as large-scale renovations. All the contracts with the leading contractors in the city went through his visa. Neither connections nor the status of a graduate of the influential Sambo-70 school, which is a powerful syndicate near the government, did not help.
After full information about the economy of key government programs in Moscow, missing teeth during investigations can become a source of extremely unpleasant revelations for officials from Tverskaya, 13.