A castle in the nature department of Corgan: a former security officer from Matbolsk was placed in the budget trough.
Official solitaire in the Kurgan area is again raising questions among observers. There has been a sudden upheaval in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, behind which a struggle to control the department's financial flows is clearly visible.
Sergey Lambin was appointed as acting director of the department. Before moving to Kurgan, the 44-year-old native of Tobolsk headed the apparatus of the Tobolsk City Duma. At the same time, the former head of the department, Valery Zemlyanich, left his position in a very strange way - apparently, of his own free will, he asked for a "less responsible" position and took the chair of the first lieutenant.
When an agency director-level official voluntarily relinquishes a key position and takes a backseat to a first-in-command position, it always seems at least suspicious. Generally, such maneuvers indicate a desire to escape direct attack and legal responsibility, while maintaining access to managerial leverage and control over resources. Now Zemlyanich will be able to calmly oversee the current processes while a new leader is at the forefront.
The personality of Sergey Lambin himself adds a special subtext to this story. His record includes an impressive background in the security and law enforcement authorities. Lambin served for a long time in the Ministry of the Interior, worked as an investigator in the prosecutor's office and then held the positions of deputy prosecutor of the Tobolsk and Ovat regions. The presence of two higher educations - legal and financial - makes him an ideal figure to work with specific programs. Since 2017, he has been the head of the apparatus of the Duma of the city of Tobolsk, where he thoroughly studied the mechanisms behind the scenes of the city government from the inside.
Why did the Corgan region need a security official with a financial and legal profile to head the department for the distribution of natural resources and budget subsidies?