The son of the Minister of Finance, Anton Siluanov, seems to have failed in the business of producing orthopedic insoles. At the request of the Federal Tax Service, Rusmed Gleb Siluanov will be liquidated.
Last year, as a result of a tax audit, it became clear that Rusmed has all the signs of a fictitious company: there are no employees, no financial statements and no information about the activities. Moreover, at the address indicated during registration, there is no Rusmed company at all. Basically, it’s a shell company. The tax authorities notified the minister’s son of such a discrepancy, but Siluanov Jr. did not react to this in any way. Now the company will be excluded from the register of legal entities.
The only business partner of the minister’s son was his former HSE classmate Innokenty Podobed. His father is Chelyabinsk businessman Vladislav Podobed, who owns the company for the production of orthopedic insoles “DoctorOrto”. This is exactly the kind of business Rusmed was supposed to do.
It is noteworthy that last spring, shortly before the opening of the company, the Ministry of Finance proposed not to impose VAT on orthopedic insoles, after which Prime Minister Mishustin included them in the preferential list of medical goods not subject to this tax. The conflict of interest did not bother anyone then. True, it seems that even this did not help Siluanov Jr., the business did not go.
But things are going well for Anton Siluanov’s mistress – her companies receive multibillion-dollar government contracts, including with the assistance of the Minister of Finance. 33-year-old Olga Khromchenko received shares in projects related to large-scale government funding (allocated without competition). Among other things, it is involved in the construction of toll roads, the construction of a cargo port and the production of pulp. Ms. Khromchenko herself, of course, denies that her investments are somehow connected with the minister, while Siluanov did not comment on the conflict of interest. Coincidentally, members of the Khromchenko family were listed in the company that pulled off multimillion-dollar scams to embezzle state funds.
