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You’ve seen something like this in TV shows about wildlife.
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A fat hog runs through the jungle pursued by hunters.
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It runs in the direction it considers safe, but – oops! – there’s a trap there,
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and after some time, our crafty hog ends up on a roasting jack.
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In our case, there’s still a long way to go until the roasting jack,
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because the hog has is a deputy, its father is in the judicial qualifications commission,
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it has a whole lot of money, runs the city of Moscow alongside Sobyanin
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and is one of the head members of “United Russia”.
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However, we’ve still managed to trap it.
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A sensational document was published on the website of Moscow City Duma.
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Its head, Alexey Shaposhnikov, published his asset disclosure.
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His annual income is a humble 2 billion rubles.
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That’s roughly 5 times more that the incomes of all the other deputies put together.
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And some of those deputies are quite rich.
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Such an income make Shaposhnikov one of the country’s richest public officials.
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Even though he’s a Moscow deputy, the whole country should take note of him.
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You all probably remember the recurring character of our investigations,
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former Deputy PM Shuvalov, who lives in mansions and drives a Rolls Royce
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and whose corgis fly to dog shows on a private jet.
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Well, even his declared income is 10 times less.
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The most interesting thing here is not even the fact that Shaposhnikov is a billionaire,
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but the fact that his wealth literally came out of nowhere.
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Let’s check his asset disclosure from previous years.
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3 million rubles, 5 million, 22 million, 5.5, 24 million… and – bam! – 2 billion.
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80 times more than last year.
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“That’s very interesting”, you may say,
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“but what does it have to do with the hog running through the jungle?”
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You see, we’ve been chasing Alexey Shaposhnikov for quite some time, waving this document
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It states that in 2018, deputy Alexey Shaposhnikov contributed 870 million rubles
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to the charter capital of his company, OOO “Vash Konsalting”.
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With ready money, not stocks or assets.
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He just transferred it to the account of his own shell company.
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It does some nonsense, registers websites, “consults on management issues”, etc.
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But that doesn’t really matter, because there’s never been any money I this company.
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In most years, it had zero income, and when it did, it was around 50 thousand rubles.
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So, when elections came last summer, we’ve queered deputy Shaposhnikov’s pitch
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by going to all his meetings with the voters and asking him questions
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about his 270 m2 penthouse in the middle of Moscow and the origin of those 870 million rubles.
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Alexey Valerievich! Can I ask you a question?
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Shaposhnikov has been the head of Moscow City Duma for the last 6 years.
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He’s been a public official since 2003: he worked at the Central Office of the State Duma,
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was in charge of the “Young Guard of United Russia”,
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was a member of the presidium of the Moscow branch of “United Russia”.
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How could he earn 870 million? That’s exactly what we tried to ask him at the meeting.
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He refused to answer back then, and his guards were chasing away our correspondent.
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— Will you keep following me? — Why are you so pesky?
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— I’m doing my job — We won’t let you
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— So, you won’t let me talk to Alexey Valeryevich? — Get lost, didn’t you hear them?
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— You won’t. I see — We won’t
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Still, we almost managed to kick him out of his deputy sit with the help of “smart voting”.
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We urged everyone to vote not for Shaposhnikov, but for Alexander Borisovich Efimov.
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People came to vote for him, but our crafty jungle hog tricked everyone.
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Shaposhnikov registered a spoiler candidate, Maksim Vladimitrovich Efimov.
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So, even though most people voted against Shaposhnikov and for Efimov,
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their votes were split between the two Efimovs,
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and Shaposhnikov managed to squeeze through.
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However, the issue of the mysterious millions didn’t die out.
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Just recently, journalist and politician Egor Zhukov (thanks to him for that)
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repeated our question on his “Echo of Moscow” show
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According to the accounting documents, you own the company “Vash Konsalting”.
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In 2018, you personally contributed 870 million rubles to its charter capital.
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Where did this money come from?
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I’d rather have you watch it than try to retell it.
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The whole show was a manifest of the insolent deputy.
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You can treat it as you want. I had a meeting with voters,
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and a shady young man who I don’t know tried to sabotage this meeting.
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And then, when Zhukov himself, a non-shady and famous young man,
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asked the same question, Shaposhnikov, who lives off our taxes,
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said that he doesn’t owe him any explanations either.
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— You will see all this in my asset disclosure.
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By the way, all the deputies have filed their asset disclosures before April 1, as required.
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— So, if Mr. Nizovtsev finally gets an opportunity to ask this question personally one day,
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you’ll be able to prove him that you got this money by legal means?
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— I don’t owe Mr. Nizovtsev any explanations
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— Can you explain it to me then?
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— No, I don’t owe you any explanations either.
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“Check the asset disclosure, everything will be there”.
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That’s exactly what we were going for, exactly where we wanted our hog to run.
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Uncomfortable questions made Shaposhnikov disclose is wealth, at least a part of it.
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In the asset disclosure, we see the 2 billion that, in Shaposnikov’s mind,
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will answer the question about the origin of the 870 million in his company.
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But in reality, Mr. Shaposhnikov, this asset disclosure didn’t solve of fix anything.
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It only made things worse. And while you’re (hopefully) packing your stuff
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in your Moscow City Duma office, let me explain the viewers how exactly our deputy tricked us.
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The head of Moscow branch of “United Russia” declared an income of 2 billion in 2019.
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But he had the 870 million that caught our eye one year earlier, in 2018.
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Deputy Shaposhnikov sincerely believes that we don’t understand how calendar works.
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That 2018 is the same as 2019. But it was before that.
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And you can’t say you’ve earned the money in 2019 to buy something a year before that.
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Look at this exclusive document, almost as shocking as Shaposhnikov’s asset disclosure.
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This is a decision from June 9, 2018, according to which
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the former sole owner of “Vash Konsalting”, Shaposhnikov’s father Valeri,
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decided to transfer his share in the company to his son Alexey Valerievich.
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Shaposhnikov Jr. must contribute 870 million rubles to the charter capital of his company.
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and receive a 99% share in return.
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This must be done in cash, there’s even a payment schedule.
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Three payments of 290 million rubles in June, July and August of 2018.
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And here’s a bank invoice. On June 14, 2018, Alexey Shaposhnikov transfers 290 million
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from his personal VTB account to the company’s account. And he does so twice more.
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Let’s carefully study Shaposhnikov’s asset disclosure from 2018.
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His income was 24 million.
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That’s all the money Shaposhnikov has earned that year,
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there’s no sign of those hundreds of millions.
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There’s no sign of them on his bank accounts in 2019 as well.
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There’s 1 million one of his VTB accounts, and the other ones are completely empty.
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He’s earned 24 million, but spent 870. What is Shaposhnikov even counting on?
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How can the 2 billion he’s earned a year later explain this?
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They can’t. And everyone understands that.
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You don’t need to be a specialist or an accountant to see that he’s lying.
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Tampering with numbers and dates.
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The truth will always come out
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And you know what? From now on, Shaposhnikov can officially live the life of a billionaire.
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Buy anything he wants, fly private jets, purchase white elephants for his entire family
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and ride on them around Moscow.
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He has the answer to all questions: What of it? That’s my official declared income.
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We want to know the source of this income.
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What did the head of Moscow City Duma do to earn these 2 billion rubles?
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On behalf of all Muscovites (and not only Muscovites),
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let me ask Shaposhnikov himself, other Moscow City Duma deputies,
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Sobyanin, Putin, FSB, Prosecutor’s office, MoI, National Guard, whoever.
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Explain to us, how a public official can get 2 billion rubles out of nowhere.
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Shaposhnikov is not just a deputy.
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I mentioned before that he runs Moscow together with Sobyanin.
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Sobyanin is the head of the executive branch,
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and Shaposhnikov is the head of the legislative branch.
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All those wonderful experiments of Mr. Curbstone
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where he replaces the paving stones twice a year,
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are impossible without Shaposhnikov, who, with the help of “United Russia” deputies,
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approves the budget, and then also acts as a supervisor, provides parliamentary oversight.
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Basically, he says: there’s no corruption in the fact that new granite curbstones on this street
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are being replaced with newer ones.
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They’ve served a whole year and gone bad, it’s time to replace them.
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There’s always room for improvement, as they say
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Shaposhnikov is the key figure of the corruption in Moscow.
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As we see, he has so much money that he can’t even hide it anymore.
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Keep one thing in mind. This person is a billionaire, he can afford anything.
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But his asset disclosure shows that he still uses the government countryhouse paid by us.
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Not only has he robbed us, we also need to pay for his dacha as a sign of gratitude,
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so that deputy Shaposhnikov can walk there and eat gooseberries.
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Just recently, Moscow opposition deputies introduced a bill
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to pay every citizen of Moscow 20,000 rubles
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in these times of economic crisis and ongoing quarantine in the city.
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We urgently need to pay money to the people.
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This is what we’re demanding here outside the convention room.
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We demand to pay everyone 20,000 rubles and free them from utility payments.
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Unfortunately, “United Russia” is sabotaging this bill.
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I proposed the same thing (but for the entire country) in my «Five Steps» program.
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And what does Shaposhnikov do?
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He doesn’t even include it in the agenda! It’s isn’t even discussed!
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Remember: the question of direct financial support of the people
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is not on the governing party’s agenda.
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They’ve gotten their billions and are doing just fine,
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and we are supposed to shut up and keep paying taxes.
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This will go on for as long as there are misguided people around us
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who still vote for Putin, United Russia and its deputies.
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Agitate and vote against them anytime and anywhere.
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