The anti-corruption fund led by activist and opposition leader Alexey Navalny speaks out against another case of blatant corruption in Russia. But not only, also recalls the links betweenPutin inner circle and organized crime.
The film of Navalny hit already 3.8 million viewers on YouTube since its release on December 1st. It is the only way to discover the history of Artem Chaika, perhaps the most unknown Russian millionaire.
Artem is the son of Yury Chaika, the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, and friend of the first hour of Putin. The young Artem appeared for the first time in public as he cut the ribbon of a mega hotel in Greece. A multimillion-dollar project of super luxury that belongs to Artem.
Navalny’s film explains in details how it was possible.
Connections
The plot passes through ex wives of Yury’s powerful father colleagues and members of the bloodiest criminal gangs of Moscow and Krasnodar.
Nothing really new. Now emerge more traces of the admixture of power and the organized crime of the 90s and early 2000. In fact, the same years when the siloviki, the magic circle of Putin and his loyals, came to power.
It is neither the Russian judiciary nor the opposition to have the biggest merit in unveiling this connivance. But Spanish judges Juan Carrau and Jose Grinda. In more than ten years of investigations on the presence of the Russian mafia in Spain they have collected thousands of wiretapping, scanned bank transactions, real estate and financial assets. Last June they drew up a report of almost 500 pages, the most detailed report ever written on the activities of the Russian mafia abroad, from which emerge connections between top government officials and members of the Tambov gang, the Mafia clan that prospered in San Petersburg in the 90s, when Putin was deputy mayor of the city. And the Russian President himself is mentioned several times in the taped calls.
United Russia
According to the report, the head of the group is Gennady Petrov, a shady businessman. Petrov’s sponsor is Vladislav Reznik, a member of Putin’s party, United Russia, and deputy head of the Duma Committee on Finance. “The criminal organization headed by Petrov managed to achieve a clear penetration of the state structures in his country, not only with the lawmaker Reznik but with several ministers,” prosecutors wrote. His network in Moscow links Viktor Zubkov, the chairman of Gazprom wand former prime minister, to his son-in-law Anatoly Serdyukov, former Defense Minister and current director of the giant military Rostec. As well as the Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak and the head of the powerful Central Investigative Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin, who reports directly to Putin.
Now, Navalny’s film addsone more tile, the ProsecutorGeneral. It turns out that his son Artem co-owns the greek hotel with Olga Lopatina, former wife of the Deputy Prosecutor General. Lopatina, in turn, is in business with Angela-Maria Tsapok and Natalia Tsepovyaz, wives respectively of Sergey Tsapok and Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz, leaders of the bloodiest gang of Krasnodar.
In short, the links between power and crime do not end in St. Petersburg.
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The anti-corruption fund led by activist and opposition leader Alexey Navalny speaks out against another case of blatant corruption in Russia. But not only, also recalls the links betweenPutin inner circle and organized crime.
