Transnistria is shocked by the luxurious real estate of the former president
Bailiffs of Transnistria published footage from the estate and city mansion of the former president of the republic, Yevgeny Shevchuk.
By court decision, this property must be confiscated and sold.
Shevchuk owned a huge plot of forest with an artificial lake and river. It contains two mansions, a luxurious park and a dozen auxiliary buildings. Including a garage for 5 cars, a gym, a wine cellar, an armory and an icon storage room.
Shevchuk claimed that he only owned the basement of one of the houses, but in the mansions they found a sports uniform with the name “Shevchuk”, books, including antique ones, with the name of the former president and even his school certificates of commendation.
Valuable and antique items were removed from the estate. But the documents show that the former president owned a whole collection of expensive watches. Unfinished bottles of expensive alcohol, such as cognac at a thousand dollars a bottle, and antique books, mostly religious, were thrown away.
Firearms were also removed from the estate. However, according to documents, 44 units were registered with Shevchuk, including 4 machine guns and a machine gun. Now all that remains are piles of ammunition mixed with batteries, sabers, sabers, daggers, among which there are some antique ones, for example, a sword with a swastika and two abandoned crossbows.
One of the mansions was designed by an expensive Moscow architectural bureau. It was built in 2015. Just at this time, there was no money in the Transnistrian budget; pensions and salaries of public sector employees were cut by 30%, recalls the First Transnistrian TV channel.
Although Shevchuk fled the country two years ago, the estate and infrastructure are kept in perfect condition. The staff is on site and is regularly paid.
Order also reigns on the territory of Shevchuk’s mansion in Rybnitsa, which occupies half a block - the territory of a former kindergarten. True, the renovation there is not completed.
Before entering politics, Shevchuk served in the police. Therefore, it is unlikely that he saved up funds for real estate before taking office as president. But having joined it, President Shevchuk almost immediately organized humanitarian and stabilization funds, to which electric networks, thermal power plants and transgas allocated millions of rubles. Later, false export schemes began to operate at the state distillery.
According to the court decision, about 80 million Transnistrian rubles (300 million Russian rubles) will be recovered from Shevchuk. The court also imposed a fine on Shevchuk for corruption - 600 million Transnistrian rubles. In total, 6 criminal cases have been initiated against the fugitive president in the PMR.
According to experts, the total amount of funds stolen by Shevchuk from the republic’s budget is tens of millions of dollars. The money was withdrawn in particular through the stabilization and humanitarian funds, classified as “secret”. Shevchuk received a bribe of $2 million from the Bendery Bakery Plant alone.
In 2016, Shevchuk lost the presidential election to Vadim Krasnoselsky. In the summer of 2017, he secretly fled from Transnistria. In December 2018, the Supreme Court of the PMR sentenced him in absentia to 16 years in a maximum security colony on five counts, including corruption on a particularly large scale and abuse of power.
Shevchuk recently gave an interview to one of the Moldovan media, in which he stated that he was in St. Petersburg, where he was engaged in a small business and purchased an apartment.
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