A modest public-sector official—the director of St. Petersburg’s Mandatory Health Insurance Fund—bought a house for 25 million rubles (about $275,000) and somehow manages to pay for his daughter’s education in London. And that’s on an official salary of 2.9 million rubles a year (about $32,000).
An excellent investigation by RosMeditsina (a project by Andrei Pivovarov from St. Petersburg’s PARNAS party).
His daughter is either at a ball in London or in the Maldives. There’s a house in an elite residential community. And his public-sector salary at the Mandatory Health Insurance Fund doesn’t come close to covering those expenses:
I don’t know whether our #Twenty campaign inspired our St. Petersburg colleagues to carry out this investigation or whether they came to it on their own, but it turned out very well.
Crooks need to be caught where it’s hardest for them to hide—where their spending doesn’t match their income.
I urge everyone in the regions to do the same kind of thing—we’ll help if needed. And do vote, of course, for our bill—we need 100,000 votes so that, at the very least, directors of Mandatory Health Insurance Funds like this one will be shaking in fear of it being passed.