Of course, I understood that the people implicated in our investigation into the Chaika case would be protected, but I still didn’t expect them to be promoted up the career ladder so aggressively:
Let me remind you that Korzhinek is the very prosecutor who quite literally made the Kushchyovskaya massacre (a notorious 2010 mass murder in southern Russia) possible. He not only directly provided cover for the Tsapok gang on behalf of the Chaika family, but also personally terminated the criminal case against Tsapok after he assaulted a police officer.
The case was dropped, Tsapok remained free, and that gave him a sense of total impunity—which is what ultimately led to a pile of corpses.
After our investigation, Korzhinek did Chaika a whole series of favors: he helped fabricate the results of an “investigation” claiming that the wives of Tsapok gang members had supposedly transferred stakes in their companies to the wives of deputy prosecutors general without their knowledge (ha ha ha). I’m convinced that, acting on Chaika’s instructions, he was also involved in the attack on ACF in Anapa. No criminal case was ever opened there, even though it was supposedly under the supervision of a deputy interior minister—and that too is clearly Korzhinek’s doing.
And now this literal gangster in a prosecutor’s uniform is becoming a deputy prosecutor general.
Interestingly, the second prized appointee who will become deputy prosecutor general is Saak Karapetyan. He was the one who personally traveled to Switzerland after we sent complaints there about Artyom Chaika and talked things over with the Swiss prosecutors so they would bury the investigation.
What a wonderful system of legal oversight we’re going to have:
Prosecutor General — Chaika. A crook, a thief, a corrupt official. The owner of hotels around the world and the father of sons who receive state contracts worth billions of rubles, have established a salt monopoly in Russia, and obtain Swiss residence permits.
Deputy Prosecutor General — Lopatin. Co-founder (through his wife) of a company with Tsepovyaz and Tsapok. Owner of real estate and assets worth many times more than his declared income. Over five years, he bought apartments, houses, and hotels worth more than 1 billion rubles (!) His eight-year-old grandson flies around the world on a private jet.
Deputy Prosecutor General — Korzhinek. Personally helped gang leader Tsapok evade criminal responsibility. Attends Christmas services with Artyom Chaika and shuts down half the district for it.
Deputy Prosecutor General — Karapetyan. Took care of matters with the Swiss prosecutor’s office so they would not pursue an investigation against Artyom Chaika. Officially the wealthiest official in the Prosecutor General’s Office; his wife earns 45 million rubles a year.
Wonderful. Kushchyovskaya has moved to Moscow.