During searches at the mansion of the head of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin, security forces found not only large sums of money, a hammer and a photograph with severed heads, but also a collection of selfies in different images, as well as a closet set of wigs that the businessman could use to work abroad. About the most unexpected findings of security forces during investigative actions – in the material of Russian media.
heavy sequel
Blogger Elena Blinovskaya, accused of non-payment of 918 million in taxes, found during the search a large number of luxury brand items, jewelry and jewelry, as well as Lamborghini Urus cars and motorcycles, Range Rover, Maybach belonging to him. husband. Investigative actions took place at three addresses – in a mansion near Moscow in the Millennium Park cottage village, as well as in two Moscow apartments on Paveletskaya and on Shvernik Street. Now Blinovskaya is under house arrest.
golden toilet
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In the summer of 2021, on suspicion of corruption and abuse of power, security forces arrested the leaders of the Stavropol UGIBDD, including the head of the department, Alexei Safonov. During a search, a large number of luxury items were found in his mansion. Additionally, the photographs published State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein, rooms with Empire-style furniture and decorations, massive crystal chandeliers and golden plumbing – a sink, a bidet and a toilet were visible. In addition, at Safonov’s they found a billiard room, a gym and a police.
Later, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported that the former Stavropol traffic police chief, accused of accepting a bribe of 19 million rubles, owned at least six other foreign cars and 21 real estate, and his subordinates had assets worth hundreds of millions of rubles.
Chic of Rostov
The former health minister of the Rostov region, Tatyana Bykovskaya, was charged with the deaths of five patients in a covid hospital, where there were problems with the supply of medical oxygen. In the mansion of the former official, in addition to marble floors, gilded stucco and Renaissance-style paintings, they found gilded furniture, crystal chandeliers, a gilded toilet bowl and one and a half million rubles in species. The trial in the Bykovskaya case continues.
Pen for 36 million
Watch seized during searches of former governor of the Sakhalin region Alexander KhoroshavinRussian Investigative Committee / TASS
In 2015, Russia’s Investigative Committee arrested Alexander Khoroshavin, a former governor of the Sakhalin region, on suspicion of corruption. According to the security forces, he received a bribe in the amount of more than 5.5 million dollars. During the search, about a billion rubles in cash in various currencies were seized from him, as well as about 800 units of various jewelry, including 200 pairs. watches, a diamond map of Russia and a pen for 36 million rubles. Khoroshavin has been Governor of Sakhalin and Chairman of the Sakhalin Region Government since 2007. In 2018 he was sentenced to 13 years in a strict regime colony, and in 2022 the sentence was increased to 15 years.
Billions in cash
In the apartment of Colonel of the Interior Ministry Dmitry Zakharchenko, who held the post of deputy head of the “T” department of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Interior Ministry, during a search they found foreign currency money in the total amount of 8.5 billion rubles. 13 apartments, 14 parking spaces and four cars were also confiscated from him. Zakharchenko was tried for accepting a large-scale bribe – seven million rubles. In 2019, he was sentenced to 13 years of strict regime. He himself claimed that the money, like the apartment in which they were found, does not belong to him, but to his sister and his parents.
Vintage rewards and weapon collection
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Former senator Rauf Arashukov was arrested on January 30, 2019, just during a Federation Council meeting. He was arrested for organizing several murders in 2010, as well as participating in the organized criminal community of his father Raul Arashukov, an adviser to Gazprom chief Mezhregiongaz. During the searches at the Arashukov family, the investigators discovered a large sum of money, a collection of bladed weapons of the peoples of the Caucasus with elements of precious metals and stones, ancient awards, as well as gold and silver bullion. Arashukov Jr. did not admit guilt and said the criminal case was ordered.
Kilograms of gold
More than three million rubles, antiques, paintings, 19 kg of gold and platinum in jewelry were confiscated from Evgenia Vasilyeva, a former official of the Ministry of Defense, during searches in the Oboronservis case. The total amount of Vasilyeva’s arrested assets was estimated at 450 million rubles. She was also credited with a “13-room apartment” in central Moscow, but the manager herself claimed there were only four rooms. According to EGRP, the area of ​​the apartment is 192 square meters. M. In 2014, Vasilyeva was sentenced to five years in prison for large-scale fraud, but in 2015 she came out of paroled.
bitcoin retirement
Marat Tambiev, head of the investigative department of the Tverskoy district committee in Moscow, according to security forces, in April 2022 received from hackers a bribe in bitcoins for 24 million dollars or 1.6 billion rubles at the exchange rate of January 2023. This is a record amount of bribe for a ministry employee inside. Tambiev allegedly kept the electronic wallet access codes in a file called “Pension”. The criminal case about accepting a bribe is under investigation.
“Ceremonial” portrait
Russian FSB Press Service
At the end of May 2019, Deputy Governor of the Rostov region for housing and utilities Sergey Sidash stopped suspicion of abuse of authority during the construction of the Rostov-Arena stadium for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. During searches of his apartment, they found a collection of luxury watches worth approximately $116,000. In addition, large sums of rubles and foreign currency, jewelry and paintings depicting Sidash in a tuxedo and military tunic with orders and medals were found at the official’s home and workplace.
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