Hooray. Today brought the news that we at the ACF (Anti-Corruption Foundation), especially its St. Petersburg branch, had been waiting for for almost half a year:
Felix Karmazinov, head of St. Petersburg’s state-owned water utility Vodokanal, has resigned.
This is the very same gentleman in whose name the St. Petersburg ACF, together with journalists from Delovoy Peterburg, found assets and real estate worth several billion rubles. At the same time, our colleagues in St. Petersburg published a diagram showing how money was siphoned out of the city-owned enterprise and ended up in companies controlled by Felix Karmazinov.
Back in March, we learned that the ACF investigation had dealt a serious blow to Vodokanal’s long-serving director and that he would resign in the very near future.
That “very near future” has finally arrived. We’ll do our best to make sure this story doesn’t end with his dismissal.
Excellent work by the St. Petersburg ACF and Dmitry Sukharev. If he can get things like this done without a deputy’s mandate, then as a legislator he’ll be able to move mountains. Support his campaign if you want someone like that in the new convocation of the St. Petersburg parliament.
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