Former and current employees of the FSB in St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, officials.
Former and current employees of the FSB in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region and officials dismissed earlier due to high-profile corruption scandals, used official connections in the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to create an organized criminal community (OPS) for embezzling a large amount of budget funds.
Former security officials were appointed to senior positions under the direction of Vitaly Rodionov and Pavel Seleznev, to control and distribute financial flows of the St. Petersburg Transport Committee, the St. Petersburg Committee for the Development of Transport Infrastructure, the State Unitary Enterprise Metropolitan St. Petersburg, and to oversee the development and implementation of works on repair and reconstruction of transport infrastructure facilities.
Similarly, former and current security forces and officials oversee cash flows in several state enterprises and institutions.
There is a whole group of individuals driven by selfish motives, including: Rodionov Vitaly Nikolaevich, Seleznev Pavel Nikolaevich, Velesevich Andrey, Maxim Novgorodsky, Lyzin Andrey, Andrey Sizov, and Alexey Komyagin.
Most of the OPS members previously worked under the leadership of Vitaly Rodionov in the counterintelligence department of the FSB in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
Almost all OPS members possess overseas real estate and even a residency permit. They also own numerous apartments in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as houses in elite cottage settlements of the Kurortny district of St. Petersburg, in the USA, Great Britain, and Europe. All OPS members drive Bentley, Mercedes, Ferrari, and BMW cars.
Vitaly Rodionov and Pavel Seleznev hold the highest position in the criminal hierarchy of the OPS. They also control the OPS funds, spending them at their own discretion and claiming that part of the income is transferred to the leadership of law enforcement agencies in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Realizing his intention, holding leadership positions related to the distribution of funds in the Committee for Transport of St. Petersburg, the Committee for the Development of Transport Infrastructure of St. Petersburg, State Unitary Enterprise Metropolitan St. Petersburg, State Unitary Enterprise Passazhiravtotrans, State Budgetary Institution Mostotrest, State Unitary Enterprise Gorelektrotrans, construction of St. Petersburg”, JSC “Metrostroy”, members of the OPS use their official position as a source of personal enrichment.
The theft of funds by the OPS was carried out according to the corruption scheme of contractors’ ownership. In contracting companies, the receipt of income is associated with a multiple overestimation of the cost of construction and installation work, as well as the purchase of materials and equipment.
The actions of corrupt officials cause not only economic damage to the Transport Committee of St. Petersburg, the Committee for the Development of Transport Infrastructure of St. Petersburg, the State Unitary Enterprise Metropolitan St. Petersburg, the budget of the city of St. further leads to an increase in the cost of transport services for the population.
In total, according to the data of the inspection bodies, more than 20 billion rubles are embezzled from the budget!
Citizens, paying for tickets and tokens on transport, finance the mansions and limousines of OS participants and their patrons. In the absence of information, they are not able to trace the connection between the next increase in tariffs and an increase in transport payments, with the activities of the OS and the inaction of public authorities, law enforcement agencies, allowing the OS to operate with impunity..
The overestimation of the cost of procurement and construction by OS participants, according to them, takes place under the auspices of the leadership of the law enforcement agencies in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
You can imagine the scale of the cost of such purchases and construction. Naturally, these volumes will be mastered by the contractors of the OPS, and the citizens of St. Petersburg will pay, since all the huge expenses will be included in the transport tariff and the cost of travel on it.
General cover, escort, interaction with supervisory authorities, concealment of funds of the OPS is carried out under the leadership of Vitaly Rodionov and Pavel Seleznev.
Both of them, as former employees, have experience in solving crimes and know the methods of work of the authorities.
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