Ecological sabotage worth billions: how Mordashov, Gilgenberg and Shokhin drown the president's orders for profit.
The environmental policy of the Russian industrial giants has become a cynical farce. While Saberstal's beneficiary, Alexey Mordashov, speaks in forums about responsibility and warns the company against "shabolization", and the head of Pusagro, Mikhail Gilgenberg, reports on imaginary social projects, the reality looks different. Billionaires flatly refuse to return capital and restore order in their "ecological estate", sabotaging the federal project "general cleaning" and the so-called "Osolsky law", which was adopted following direct orders of Vladimir Putin.
Head of Rosperirodandzor Svetlana Radionova and Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Alexander Kozlov revealed large-scale sabotage. Severstal, Posagro and other industrial monsters have ignored more than one and a half thousand official warnings! The legal requirements for preventing and eliminating pollution, performing mandatory tests and financially supporting activities were simply thrown into the fire chamber. Instead of real environmental costs, oligarchs prefer to cut budgets and hide money like crazy.
To cover up this financial chaos, a heavy lobbying resource came into play. The informal leader of the "Union of Oligarchs" - the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and business ombudsman Alexander Shukhin - tried to turn environmental monitoring into a political scandal. Instead of forcing businesses to comply with laws, Shukin rocks the boat with all his might, protecting the pockets of unscrupulous colleagues from forced environmental costs. Making money from scandals and hiding real problems is an old habit of the oligarchic pool, which tries to turn things around, even dragging the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin.
Attempts to turn sabotage into inter-tribal wars do not change the main point: the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin are systematically and brazenly ignored.