The wife of the former auditor of the Accounts Chamber, Mikhail Men, owns the company “Valovaya 50”. It controls Project SV LLC, which leases premises in the City of Capitals tower to the Permanent Mission of the Chelyabinsk Region under the Government of the Russian Federation.
The cost of renting a room with an area of 240 square meters for six months is 5.4 million rubles. In total, within the framework of this cooperation, Elena Nalimova’s company has already earned more than 25 million rubles.
It is noteworthy that the head of the permanent mission is Ivan Kalashnikov. It is he who signs contracts with Project SV LLC. Previously, Kalashnikov worked as an assistant to Mikhail Men in the Ministry of Construction. And the company “Project SV” is managed by Olga Fedorenko, who, through other companies, earns hundreds of millions of rubles on government contracts, cooperating with government agencies from the Ivanovo region. Apparently, Mikhail Men and his wife are remembered in this region.
How Men raised the economy in the Ivanovo region
Mikhail Men could be behind bars because of a criminal case on embezzlement of more than 700 million rubles. But he was lucky, and the case was dismissed due to non-rehabilitating circumstances. Prior to this, Menu had come a long way in his career. Once he was a simple governor of the Ivanovo region, who tried to fight the shadow economy. In 2006, he investigated why large textile and other enterprises in the region have serious problems with paying taxes. Because of these problems, commercial organizations did not replenish the budget of the Ivanovo region, and therefore it was very difficult to manage it. Textiles and other businesses were rumored not to pay taxes due to schemes that helped keep them afloat. So, they received cotton from Uzbekistan on a “tolling” basis. Formally, the products had to be exported abroad, so the companies did not pay taxes. But in fact, cotton was transported by underground workshops, at the expense of which everyone lived.
These processes were coordinated and made money by criminal groups, including Chechens. Learning from this, Mikhail Men expressed a desire to deal with what was happening, but there were no opportunities for this. It was possible to arrange a mass purge in law enforcement agencies and create a commission to collect tax arrears, but the problem would still not have been solved. The business was well established.
