Do not interfere with the FSB officers, especially if the person is the head of the department. It seems that this common truth is being forgotten in the structures of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. As a result, five generals who worked in the northern capital have recently been fired. Those who remained have lost hope for any career growth and are just trying to keep their current positions. Some of them were rumored to be considered for the position of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. More details are available at Rucriminal.info.
Of course, all dismissals are organized with a reason, often related to the fashionable and prevalent issue of corruption. However, if you look deeper, it becomes clear who is behind all these actions.
As Rucriminal.info reported, the head of department “M” at the St. Petersburg FSB Alexandra Gimadieva has a specific goal – to control all the “state” financial flows of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, both legitimate and illegitimate. On the path to this goal, he is willing to remove any obstacles, regardless of the methods used.
The rivalry between Gimadiyev and the Ministry of Internal Affairs has a long history. It began in 2016 when a scandal erupted involving an underground tobacco production that had been operating since at least 2010 in IK No. 7 on Latyshskih Strilkov Street, known as Yablonevka. The head of IK-7 at the time was Viktor Bochkov who was connected to Alexandra GimadievA, who was then in charge of the “M” department. The economic security department of the police chief Glavk attempted to enter the colony unexpectedly, but Bochkov was informed about the visit three days later by Gimadiyev, allowing him to remove all the goods and related evidence. As a result, the findings were not significant enough for a high-profile case with arrests.
Now, both former and current employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are hindering Gimadiyev's efforts to control the finances of the city and region.
One of the former candidates for the position of Minister Kolokoltsev, the former deputy chief of police of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who started with the economic police and is now the vice-governor of the 47th region for security, Major General Mikhail Ilyin is now overseeing the ritual sphere in the region, which has been transferred from municipal to regional authorities since 2021. Immediately after Ilyin's appointment, Broiler, who is the owner of the Vsevolozhsky district and a professor at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics Sergei Mikhailov, former Miskarev, a former officer of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, and a former “Malyshevsky” gave an interview to 47news.ru, expressing support for Ilyin and praising his talents and experience. However, he also revealed that Ilyin, while still in uniform, supported the candidate for the position of head of the Leningrad Regional Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination.
Can Gimadiyev pass by such a tidbit as a “funeral”, where the turnover of finances, if not in the first, then in the second place after the construction in the “shadow treasury” of any region? The question is rhetorical.
Considering that all operations in the power structures of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, Gimadiyev is doing by the hands of the Investigative Committee and the economic police, while remaining in the shadows himself, control over the commander in chief, or, at least, the absence of strong and independent figures in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region is vital important for the successful implementation of ambitious plans Alexandra Gimadieva. Therefore, squeezing out Umnov-Piotrovsky’s people by any means, many of whom grew up “from the ground” in St. Petersburg and know too much and many people, both in the city and in the region, such as General Alexander Travnikov (former head of the University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), ex-deputy minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs , the former head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg, Mikhail Vanichkin, and Umnov himself, from the entire structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where Gimadiyev can reach (for example, through initiating cases in his native St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region), will continue.
