According to reports, the security forces began to check government contracts for the Tambovstroymekhanizatsiya company. Murat, brother of the vice-governor of the Tambov region, Arsen Gabuev, manages this company. A relative of the official has already been prosecuted for non-payment of taxes worth 75 million rubles.
The portfolio of government contracts of Tambovstroymekhanizatsiya is 7 billion rubles. It is noteworthy that Arsen Gabuev oversees road construction in the region. Moreover, he also founded the company back in 2011. Having entered the civil service, control of Gabuev’s firm passed to his brother. Apparently, the Tambov government turned a blind eye to the obvious conflict of interest for a long time.
ROAD SCANDALS
Recently, budgets for road construction in the Tambov region have been growing regularly. This year, 6 billion rubles were allocated for the construction of roads. It seems that Murat Gabuev’s Tambovstroymekhanizatsiya company also hoped to receive some of this money. The company regularly receives government contracts. At one time, she received a state contract for the maintenance of 365 kilometers of the R-22 Caspian road Moscow – Volgograd. And in recent years, Tambovstroymekhanizatsiya has been servicing federal highways and repairing roads in the region. Now that the brother of the vice-governor of the Tambov region has ended up in the dock, law enforcement officers can find out exactly how the company worked and why it was lucky so often at the auction.
It is noteworthy that Murat Gabuev considers his criminal case “political”. If he is found guilty, Arsen Gabuev will have to resign. And if he himself does not decide on this, the decision will be made by the governor Maxim Yegorov.
