We cannot and do not want to leave this scumbag alone. We’re talking about MP/pervert/psychopath/corrupt official/bribe-taker Leonid Slutsky.
Not many people are honored this way, but we’re publishing our third investigation about him. This time with truly mega-exclusive details. We managed to find a unique document, Slutsky’s so-called “extended” (that is, very, very detailed) declaration, and it contains a whole lot of fascinating discoveries. Most importantly, it answers the question of where he gets the money for his luxurious lifestyle.
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Before we get to our new findings, let’s refresh what we already know.
MP Slutsky is the head of the State Duma’s Foreign Affairs Committee. A major politician from the LDPR party, broadly speaking. Twenty years in public office. He became widely known after several female journalists accused him of sexual harassment. He harassed them right in his office while they were trying to interview him.
At ACF, we took on Slutsky too, and found the following:
If you’ve forgotten what this is about, you can catch up on all the details here and here — those are our two previous videos about Leonid Slutsky.
More than a year has passed since then. We hadn’t forgotten about Slutsky, and as soon as the new 2018 declarations were published on the State Duma website, we went digging to see what was new with our maniac MP.
We weren’t expecting much. For half a year, the whole country had been dragging Slutsky through the mud. His conduct was reviewed by special commissions, and journalists boycotted the State Duma because of him. It seemed as though he had barely escaped punishment by a thread. Any reasonable person in his place would at least have kept a much lower profile.
But “reasonable person” does not describe Slutsky. Something in his new declaration jumps right out at you and blinds everyone with its sheer brazenness.
A third Bentley. This time, a Bentley Mulsanne. Bought in 2018 and registered in his wife’s name. She already owns two other Bentleys. This one is even more expensive than the previous ones and costs 30 million rubles. That’s six of Slutsky’s annual salaries.
Well, maybe his income increased thirtyfold too? Proportionally? This crook has to have some way of explaining where he gets the money for all this. Let’s check to make sure.
Ha-ha. No. Same as ever. 5 million rubles, which is EXACTLY an MP’s salary and not a kopeck more.
What are you doing, Slutsky, what?! You’re an MP, a servant of the people, representing—God forgive us—the interests of your electorate. Your activities attract attention. How debased do you have to become to flaunt your illegal wealth this ostentatiously, this openly, this brazenly in everyone’s face?
You can probably imagine that Slutsky made us VERY angry. So we came up with a small but very unpleasant act of revenge. Now we’re going to show you, in full color and detail, where Slutsky really gets his money.
For that, we’ll need a relatively exclusive and previously unpublished document. It’s the full, or “extended,” income declaration that every MP submits to the State Duma administration. It is strikingly different from the pitiful, uninformative page we’re used to seeing on various government websites.
First of all, in sheer size. What the State Duma GENEROUSLY publishes on its website is one page (two at most), thinly filled with numbers and text. But this is a full 23 pages explaining in detail where Slutsky got every last kopeck in 2018 and what he spent it on.
It contains a huge amount of information about our Bentley lover’s life: account numbers, addresses. I think Slutsky will be upset about that, but what can you do—there’s a public interest.
All the answers are here. The most interesting part is the section of the declaration concerning his wife, the happy owner of a brand-new 30 million-ruble Bentley Mulsanne.
Look at this amazing detail. It states that Slutsky’s wife, Lidiya Dmitrievna Lyskova, is a PENSIONER. Not unemployed, not self-employed—a pensioner.
I’ll tell you more—scroll down. Slutsky’s wife, the owner of three Bentleys and a 600-square-meter penthouse in central Moscow, ACTUALLY RECEIVES THIS PENSION. She applied for it, went to the pension office, brought in the paperwork, and now 18,000 rubles in state pension payments land on her bank card every month. And she declares them. She has no other significant income.
Now we come to the part that interests us most, the reason we’re all here today. Where did the Bentley come from?
Here’s where. The Bentley was bought for 28.2 million rubles, of which the pensioner paid 3.2 million herself and borrowed 25 million rubles.
What? A 25 million-ruble loan? For a Bentley? To a pensioner with an income of 18,000? How is that even possible?
I’m sure an ordinary Russian pensioner with an income of 18,000 rubles would struggle to get a loan even for a decent washing machine. But here it’s 25 million for a luxury car.
The answer is in this same wonderful document. Scroll to the end and we see that the money was lent to Slutsky’s wife by one M. Yu. Yushvayev. And he did it just like that. The loan is interest-free. For 10 years.
M. Yu. Yushvayev, as five minutes of Googling will tell anyone, is Mardakhai Yushvayev, a 34-year-old gentleman from Baku (the capital of Azerbaijan).
The same screenshot also shows what this Yushvayev does. Until recently, he owned 50% of a company called Accord Spetsstroy LLC. In 2018 alone—the same year as the generous loan to the MP’s wife—this firm won contracts worth 3.3 billion rubles.
In a “fierce battle” with other bidders, Mardakhai’s company won the right to repair more than 300,000 square meters of roads in Moscow’s Central District—that’s dozens of streets and lanes where asphalt, sidewalks, and curbs were laid. On top of that, the firm also won tenders for major renovations of ordinary apartment buildings in Moscow.
And this is the perfect moment to answer the question: why would Moscow construction contractors bribe Leonid Slutsky, the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee?
I have no doubt that this is connected to MP Slutsky’s daddy. According to numerous media reports, Slutsky is the illegitimate son of another, far more famous—even legendary—United Russia MP: Vladimir Resin.
Don’t let the different patronymic and surname confuse you—several of Meduza’s sources confirmed that Slutsky calls Resin “dad” and that they arrive together for work at the State Duma.
Resin was the longtime head of Moscow’s construction complex under Luzhkov (former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov), and is now an aide to Patriarch Kirill (head of the Russian Orthodox Church) and an adviser to Sergey Sobyanin (the current mayor of Moscow). Resin remains one of the most influential people in Moscow’s power structures.
So what have we discovered after three minutes of reading an official document? A classic bribe.
Let’s even set the details aside: the owner of a major construction company gives the wife of a State Duma MP an interest-free loan of 25 million rubles.
The FSB officers who were supposed to review this declaration should have had a red warning light go off immediately: corruption, bribery.
Here’s another funny example. You remember that Slutsky had a Maybach. The very same Maybach in which this pervert MP violated traffic rules 825 times. Now it has disappeared from the declaration. And we can see why: the MP sold it for—wait for it—200,000 rubles.
Hmm. What a strange deal. Why sell a car worth 12 million for 200,000? How did that happen?
We looked into it and found yet another scheme by this servant of the people. He “sold” the Maybach a month after our investigation. Of course, he “sold” it fictitiously—he simply re-registered it so we could no longer track his fines. The car’s license plate was changed. Look here: this screenshot shows the unique VIN and that the plate number and owner changed in April 2018.
We Google the new plate number, and in the very first photo we see Slutsky himself getting into that Maybach. The photo was taken in November 2018—that is, six months after the so-called sale.
Here are a few more photos. Slutsky’s old driver, but now with the new plates, is driving in a bus lane. Classic.
And one more: again driving into oncoming traffic, and again the Maybach is there. Zoom in, and you can clearly make out Slutsky’s disgusting mug in the passenger seat.
The car was not declared.
Or take another very telling example. Slutsky has his own large dacha on Rublyovka (the elite area west of Moscow—the same one where he failed to declare a hectare of land).
But he still needs to squeeze something more out of us. So the State Duma provides him with yet another official state dacha. Also on Rublyovka, 4 kilometers from his own.
Why the hell should we be paying for his state dacha if he already has his own? But apparently we should. Slutsky explains in the declaration: the dacha belongs to him, but it is being used by his wife and daughter. So he needs a separate one. And you, Russian citizen, stop getting above yourself and hurry up and pay for it.
So, dear viewers, the next time you hear about Putin’s uncompromising fight against corruption, about how Putin has everything under control and is ruthlessly driving corrupt officials out of power, please remember this video. Go back and reread this document, reread my post. Putin, the State Duma, Bastrykin, and Chaika all have thousands of documents like this in their hands. For 10 years, each of the 450 MPs has filed one of these highly detailed documents every year. And all it takes is five minutes to spot five different criminal offenses. Do you know the average income of a State Duma MP from United Russia? 25 million rubles. And I guarantee you, it’s all just like Slutsky’s.
Slutsky’s boss, State Duma Speaker Volodin, knows that Slutsky and Resin are thieves and bribe-takers. But he does nothing, because he’s the same kind of thief. The head of Slutsky’s party, Zhirinovsky, knows that Slutsky is a thief. But he does nothing, because he steals too—and even takes a cut from Slutsky. The bosses above those bosses (who could that be?)—Kiriyenko, Vaino—the exact same story. The people who are supposed to inspect and control things—Chaika, Bastrykin, Bortnikov, Patrushev, Medvedev—every one of them a dollar millionaire—what are they supposed to say to Slutsky with his pathetic three Bentleys? And then there’s Putin. At the head of all this, of course, is Putin. The richest among them and the country’s chief corrupt official. That is exactly what the famous “Putin vertical” means.
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