There sure was a lot of shouting about it. I remember journalists calling three times a day, all asking the same question: do you think Putin’s anti-corruption campaign will end successfully? Of course it will, sure: Dam***ages never stuck to the deputy minister *The main defendant in the "Rosagroleasing" case avoided prison
As Kommersant (a Russian business daily) has learned, the high-profile fraud case involving former Deputy Agriculture Minister Alexei Bazhanov has fallen apart. Just before New Year’s, the charges against him and two other defendants were reduced to a lesser article of the Criminal Code, and they were released from custody under travel restrictions. What’s more, as a result of the reclassification, they now qualify for the economic amnesty, for which they managed to apply shortly before it expired. At the same time, the defendants had previously not admitted guilt and had not compensated for the damages. http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2383314 And this despite the fact that the schemes used to siphon off billions looked anything but sophisticated: ...he was being investigated for involvement in the theft of a 1.2 billion ruble loan allocated by Rosselkhozbank to Masloprodukt against collateral of 50,000 metric tons of sunflower seeds. The holding company never repaid the bank, and** the seeds, according to documents submitted by the borrower, had spoiled.** So then, let’s congratulate the humble civil servant, minister, and billionaire Elena Skrynnik and her friends on the successful conclusion of this "anti-corruption investigation."
One crow won’t peck out another crow’s eye.
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