We’ve decided to spend a bit more time investigating various banking scams. Looking at what’s happening around Bank of Moscow and VTB, you realize just how relevant and large-scale this issue is. The situation is paradoxical: on the one hand, banking is regulated from top to bottom; on the other, it turns out that this regulation doesn’t work. Fake reporting everywhere, “holes in the balance sheet,” and so on. How could this happen? Banking supervision is carried out by specific people—Central Bank employees. They sign all sorts of paperwork, interact with specific banks (including taking bribes from them), so I simply do not understand what it means to say they “suddenly discovered a hole in the balance sheet.” Either they did a poor job checking, in which case the inspector should be fired, or they deliberately looked the other way, in which case the inspector should go to prison. How can you buy a bank first and only then discover these “holes”? What, do they buy it cash on delivery through the mail like some book called Learn the Name of Your Future Husband? The problem is that this is a very specialized field—it’s enough to make your head spin. There are plenty of experts willing to advise us on banking, but you still need to formulate the right question if you want a useful answer. That’s why we need a special person. Wanted. A kind mega-monster of banking, who instantly turns into an evil mega-monster the moment fraud is uncovered. Someone who thoroughly understands how banks fiddle with reporting, reserves, and so on; who understands how to detect this fraud; who understands where and how to file effective complaints about it. Someone who understands how the corrupt ties between the Central Bank and commercial banks are structured. How auditors cheat, and how to catch crooked auditors. Experience working at the Central Bank, in auditing, or at major commercial or investment banks is essential. As usual, in addition to being a top-level professional, this mega-monster must have strong ideological motivation: they must be eager to catch and expose crooks. They must take theft in the banking sector as a personal challenge. Cold rage must surge through them at the sight of Kostin (Andrey Kostin, head of VTB) and other similar characters. And of course: ability to work in a team (including with volunteer assistants, which is delicate work, since people help for the cause, not for money), meticulousness, integrity. Fluent English. Anyone willing to stand shoulder to shoulder in exposing banking crooks should send the following to navalny gmail com: Resume A free-form essay: “Why I want to work with you” A free-form outline of your view of how the work of exposing crooked bankers should be organized. Thank you. PS The picture means nothing. It was just the first result in Google Images for the query “kind monster.”
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