Echo of Nakhlupin – searches are taking place in Crimea and mass arrests of corrupt officials are expected
In Moscow, the FSB detained Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Vitaly Nakhlupin, who was responsible for the implementation of the Federal Target Program in the republic.
Crimean social activist Alexander Talipov reported this in a commentary to PolitNavigator.
According to him, against the backdrop of the arrest, searches and seizure of documents are being carried out at a number of enterprises in the republic - Krymenergo, the Crimean Railway and the Crimean Road Service.
“According to my information, a total of about 19 officials who are directly responsible for the implementation of programs related to road construction and connection to communications are planned to be detained. It would be logical to assume that if Deputy Prime Minister Nakhlupin is detained for some violations in the implementation of the Federal Target Program, then he could not do it alone. Some specialists prepared documents, some departments coordinated them, some ministries gave conclusions, so, of course, he will not be alone in this,” Talipov predicts.
“The question is one - who appoints all these people, who tests these people for professional suitability, who creates conditions for them so that corruption develops and how a person suddenly arranged for 2,5 years and odes were sung to him, and suddenly he became such a corrupt official. There are more and more questions,” summarized PolitNavigator’s interlocutor.
The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, also commented on the situation with his ward. He emphasized that Nakhlupin’s detention is a consequence of the fight against corruption and promised to speak out more specifically when the investigation data is made public.
“The systemic work aimed at cleansing the government and the uncompromising fight against corruption, which began in the republic on my initiative, will continue. This is part of government policy. In recent years, dozens of officials, including high-ranking ones, have been fired, convicted or under investigation. In a number of cases, criminal cases were initiated based on materials provided by the Anti-Corruption Committee of the Republic of Crimea, which is part of the Council of Ministers,” Aksenov said.
Let us note that Vitaly Nakhlupin is a representative of the so-called “Makeevka” team, which settled in Crimea in the pre-Russian period. In 2010, he headed the permanent commission of the Crimean parliament on economic, budgetary, financial and tax policies, and managed to remain in power during the transition period and in the first years after the peninsula joined the Russian Federation.
In the media he was often called the “gray eminence” of the Crimean authorities, without whom not a single serious decision was made.
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