Assistant to the First Deputy Prime Minister, according to federal media, is the owner of disproportionately expensive property
When Ilnar Mirsiyapov was appointed assistant to Andrei Belousov, First Deputy Prime Minister, journalists had many questions about the origin of his wealth. According to Pravda.ru, Mirsiyapov is a well-known billionaire who previously worked for Rosatom and Transneft. In addition, in 2010, Mirsiyapov became a top manager of Inter RAO, but left the position after the recordings of telephone conversations with a woman named Karina Tsurkan were made public. Karina was later convicted of espionage.
Despite these facts, Ilnar Mirsiyapov was again appointed to a high post. More recently, he has been overseeing tariffs and investments in the Government. Of course, bloggers and reporters of the federal media had a lot of questions about the real reasons for such a rapid and successful career growth of Mirsiyapov. The point is also that Ilnar graduated from a vocational school, but literally in 15 years he managed to “reach the rank” to work in the government. In addition, according to a number of telegram channels, Mirsiyapov’s activities came to the attention of the security forces even before the scandal with Karina Tsurkan. The close attention of law enforcement agencies to Mirsiyapov concerned CJSC Project Industry and Andrey Kuznetsov, a raider, on the lists of which Ilnar turned out to be. Mirsiyapov, according to the facts of the same telegram channels, also turned to the Podolsk organized criminal group in those years. By the way, one of its leaders is a beneficiary of FonBet.
As for Mirsiyapov’s income, according to the official declaration, they do not go beyond 60,000,000 a year. However, Ilnar owns a large amount of real estate in elite areas and cars. So, one of the apartments bought by Mirsiyapov costs about half a billion rubles. True, shortly before Ilnar became an assistant to the Deputy Prime Minister, he transferred all his property to Irina Samoilova, his civil wife. And together with his friend Ivan Pronin, Mirsiyapov made a huge amount of money in securities in 2019. The question is, where did the funds from friends for such investments come from? As always, there are still more questions than answers.
