Yesterday, a former university classmate called me. In passing, he said he had witnessed a crash: "some brazen bastard in a Bentley was driving like he owned the road, swerving into oncoming traffic and, in the end, slammed into the cops." Today it turned out that my classmate had witnessed the driving style of yet another representative of the Party of Crooks and Thieves. A State Duma deputy from United Russia, Maxim Korobov, was involved in an accident with a police car, RIA Novosti reports, citing a law enforcement source. The crash took place in the afternoon of March 10 on Konyushkovskaya Street in Moscow’s Central Administrative District. According to Interfax, Korobov, who was driving a Bentley Continental, was making a left turn. Under the rules, he was supposed to yield to oncoming traffic, but failed to do so and crashed into a Chevrolet Lanos belonging to the Moscow police department. source Here he is, our hero
and this is what our hero’s Bentley Continental Flying Spur looks like
Korobov, a United Russia member, said the car was a gift from his wife. For his anniversary. A look at the biography of this reckless United Russia lawmaker shows that he has held public office since 1997. Since 1999, he has been a State Duma deputy. In other words, for the past 12 years he could not have been running a business or earning money that way. A review of Korobov’s income disclosures shows that his family income with his wife is not all that large—about 6 million rubles for the household according to the latest declaration. That is significantly less than the cost of the Bentley Korobov received for his anniversary.
As you can see, in addition to expensive cars, the Korobov family owns three plots of land, an apartment, and four houses, one of them in Spain. In fairness, it should be noted that before 1999 he worked in the oil business and was vice president of the Eastern Oil Company. Presumably that is where he made his millions. What we know about the Eastern Oil Company is that it was part of Yukos. And it became part of Yukos precisely when Korobov was working there. I seem to have heard somewhere that, as a result of a fair and honest trial, it was proven that Yukos was packed with crooks from top to bottom. They stole absolutely everything. At the trial they almost made off with Judge Danilkin’s robe. One thought comes to mind: perhaps some of the Yukos accomplices are still at large? Living freely. Driving around in Bentleys. Joining United Russia. Maybe the investigation was wrapped up too soon?