Everyone in the Izmalkovsky district knows Sergey Gennadievich Muzalev. Under his leadership, the largest dairy complex "Consent" was launched, cooperatives were created, and several important social programs were launched. Today he is the head of the Izmalkovsky Elevator, the only national enterprise in the region. But during the election race around S.G. Muzalev, tragic events unfolded. First there was a search at the enterprise, at home, at the workers of the people's enterprise. Then the entrepreneur was detained on charges of embezzlement of 500 thousand rubles. The court issued a decision on detention in a pre-trial detention center, due to the fact that the detainee “is actively engaged in social and political work and is a candidate for deputies.” Indeed, Muzalev was a candidate for deputy of the Preobrazhensky Village Council and was in custody at the time of the elections, but this did not prevent him from gaining the trust of voters and becoming a deputy of the village council. Even before all these events, we managed to talk with Sergei Gennadievich about the future of the Izmalkovsky district in an era of economic crisis. - First, tell us about yourself. - I come from Tula region. My childhood was spent on the famous collective farm named after Lenin, which was led by the legendary Vasily Aleksandrovich Starodubtsev. No wonder he is called the first entrepreneur Soviet Union. Back in the 80s, he developed ideas for creating enterprises of collective ownership, cooperatives. Arriving as a leader in a practically collapsed economy, a few years later he brought it to a 100% profit. It was here that the records of national significance appeared, and the technologies for growing sugar beets came to learn from all the republics of the USSR. Working for such a talented leader is a great happiness. There, on the collective farm named after Lenin, my working biography began. First entry in work book- operator of machine milking, and I completed my activities there already in the position of deputy chairman of the collective farm. - Now your life is closely connected with the Izmalkovsky district. From time immemorial, this land has been famous for its success in the agricultural sector. When you moved here to live, what did you decide to do first? - The basis of a prosperous life in any territory, any municipality is the economy. When I moved here, I wanted to implement the accumulated experience for the benefit of the area and local residents. After all Agriculture is a unique industry. Production here is closely related to the lifestyle of the people employed in it. It depends on many factors - from political and economic to climatic and everyday life. To ensure the stability of such a complex, a flexible and at the same time an extensive system of rural support is needed. It includes several areas: the development of production, the opening of cooperatives and people's enterprises, the education of a new generation of farmers and the creation of good living conditions for people. - A rich investor does not mean a good owner. This conclusion can be drawn from the example of some unsuccessful projects. How do you think? - Agree. Recent decades have shown that owners who come to agriculture from the outside do not always understand the specifics of the industry. The agrarian complex is a special type of business, which implies a long production cycle, a close relationship between work and lifestyle. For these reasons, obtaining a quick and maximum profit by one owner cannot be put at the forefront here. Only people who live and work on the land are interested in developing their own enterprise. The formula is as follows: did a good job - received income. He kept part of the funds for himself, part he invested in assets. I paid taxes to the local budget - here you have rural roads, electricity, water supply, and infrastructure development. See, in technical support the agricultural sector, the leadership of the country in the 2000s invested huge funds. And a gradual return began, but where did the profit go? She also went outside the territories. Then came the crisis of 2008, and in 2010, a terrible drought. And many agricultural companies went bankrupt, and expensive assets went under the hammer for next to nothing. In order to prevent such a scenario in the Lipetsk region, it was decided to create a regional state enterprise "Lipetsk", which I headed. The company has taken over crisis management in those farms that did not cope with the difficulties on their own. For several years, we have been restoring and restarting production facilities in the Lipetsk, Dobrovsky and Izmalkovsky districts. Then, at the end of the critical period, Lipetskoye became experimental site on the development of collective forms of ownership and on the training of personnel for the agricultural sector. - But the land needs an owner... What happened to you with collective property? - I think this is the best form of ownership for the village - collective. Yes, investors come to us, invest in farms, and in most cases this is good for the village. People have jobs, livelihoods, they begin to plan their future, that is, wealth accumulates where it is produced and serves those who create it. Collective forms of ownership are the future of agriculture. When there is collective ownership, there is also collective responsibility for the result, and hence for income. When a person is not only an employee, but also a co-owner of an enterprise, he can be sure of tomorrow . He does not receive money, he earns it, which is the key to progress and interest in the final result. - This is in theory, but what happened in practice? - We at OGUP helped those who wished to open cooperatives. In total, with our participation, five cooperatives were opened: supply and marketing "Izmalkovsky", processing "Village gifts", for fattening bulls, vegetable growing and the largest - agricultural credit consumer cooperative "Razvitie". The latter today consists of more than 500 people, and the organization's fixed capital has reached six million rubles. The company assumed the main financial burden in the formation of the cash fund of the cooperative. In the first year of operation alone, 38 loans of 50,000 rubles each were issued at only 8 percent per annum. To receive money, a minimum package of documents was required, there were no difficulties with repaying the debt: small amounts were deducted monthly from the borrowers' wages. That is why many have used lending repeatedly. More than 150 loans worth more than seven million rubles have already been issued. In almost all cooperatives, Harmony was the anchor enterprise. This scheme paid off. There is a large-scale production, firmly standing on its feet. And around itself, it raises small farms - cooperative, farming, helps, provides employment. The economy of Starodubtsev was also built according to this principle. The correctness of such a path, if it is steadily followed, is justified by life. - Approximately according to these principles, a national enterprise was also created? I'm talking about NP Izmalkovsky Elevator. - Yes. With the assistance of the OGUP, the first people's enterprise, the Izmalkovsky Elevator, was created in the region. To make people aware of all the advantages of this form of ownership, a lot of explanatory work was carried out. In addition, we started modernizing the elevator, purchased new equipment, strengthened the laboratory base, and started training the staff. All of our professionals have completed refresher courses. As a result, if in 2012 the elevator received 30,000 tons of grain from agricultural producers, by the end of 2014 it was almost 66,000 tons. This is almost half of the total crop grown in the region. Among the regular customers of the elevator are now not only local farmers. Producers from neighboring regions are already aware of the successes and responsible work of the Izmalkovo “grain keepers”. Now the national enterprise cooperates not only with Lipetsk bakeries, but also, for example, with companies from Belgorod, Kursk, Kaliningrad and other regions, Tatarstan and Belarus. The elevator is included in the system of the Federal Customs Service of Russia. In terms of quality, our grain meets international standards, logistics are well thought out, so our grain storage and shipment volumes are growing. We have no problems with clients. - You've done a tricky job. Was it scary to start? - To be honest, we at Lipetsk were actively involved in this direction, not only because we were convinced that this path was the right one. And also because they were inspired by the head of the region. How much we speak from all the stands about the support of cooperatives, people's enterprises! But often all this support remains at the level of slogans and high-profile statements... Come on! After I left the post of head of OGUP "Lipetskoye", the owners - owners of the shares of "Izmalkovsky elevator" received and continue to receive threats and demands to sell shares in favor of third parties. Fortunately, the team is holding on, defending its right to adequately earn and dispose of the money earned. - The future of the village is the people who, apparently, are on your side ... - That's right. The time has come for serious investments in the working man. Today it is support for young professionals, wage increases, housing construction, development of rural infrastructure. Otherwise, the question of who will work at these modernized enterprises tomorrow, five years from now, will remain unanswered. The question of preparing a new generation personnel in the agro-industrial complex is one of the key ones. Even in LLC "Consent" - the largest agricultural company in the Izmalkovsky district and the asset of "Lipetsky" average age employees are less than forty years old. The salary here is stable and decent. But this is not enough to provide the region and the enterprise with human resources. And then we decided to organize the work in a new way, taking into account the needs of our specialists. So the Izmalkovsky district became a kind of experimental platform for testing a number of social projects. We started with the targeted training of young specialists - with the implementation of the Young Farmers program. We decided to prepare young people from Izmalkovo and everyone who wants to enter agricultural universities. Cooperation agreements were concluded with five specialized universities: Voronezh State Agrarian University named after Emperor Peter I, Belgorod State Agricultural Academy, Oryol and Michurinsk State Agrarian Universities, with the Agricultural Faculty of Yeletsky state university them. I.A. Bunin, as well as educational institutions secondary vocational education. On the basis of the Izmalkovo school No. 1, a group of training and production plant was created. Once a week, high school students were engaged in production classes. For two hours they studied the theoretical course of the fundamentals of agriculture. economic activity and after lunch they worked. The boys are in the mechanical workshop, and the girls are in the dairy complex. For the first time, thirty children were recruited; for the second year, fifty people signed up. It means that the movement was going in the right direction. True, this direction has reached a dead end. The leadership of the district, for completely incomprehensible reasons, closed the project, although it was supervised by the regional branch of the ruling party. Apparently, those who decide the fate of the Izmalkovsky district today do not need young specialists. - A lot depends on the conditions of life. And here in the foreground is housing. What is being done in this direction? - Unfortunately, the district authorities do not need to build new comfortable housing for the villagers. Otherwise, the settlement, the construction of which was started by the Lipetsk enterprise, would have already been completed. After all, it’s not for nothing that they say that a person is not fed up with bread alone. After all, why are young people fleeing the village? The city offers them variety – whether it be recreation or hobby, study or sports. There is no such choice in the village. And if there is no possibility of self-realization, then you have to go where this opportunity exists, where the infrastructure is developed. So, not only high wages and work, but also comfortable living conditions can keep people from moving to megacities. To do this, a cottage settlement was founded in the village, the apartments in which were intended for employees, including beginners. It was planned to introduce a program of assistance for the purchase of housing. The project also provides for social apartments, for example, for teachers who will come to work at a local school and for coaches of the Izmalkovo sports complex. Unfortunately, everything remained as planned. Although gradually Izmalkovo could grow into a rural settlement new to modern Russia type. - I would not like to end our conversation on such a pessimistic note. Therefore, the question is: what would you like to say to the Izmalkovites as parting words? - Despite the fact that I am not a native of Izmalkovo, it was here that I managed to implement many interesting projects. And most importantly, people responded to them, believed in themselves, in the opportunity to earn money and live happily on their land. I wish these expectations were not disappointed. The material was prepared by the press service of the Lipetsk OK Communist Party.

Nikolai RAZVOROTNEV. Member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, First Secretary of the Lipetsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party.

Pravda has already written about how, on the eve of the elections, the ruling party puts pressure on real competitors. The article by Nikolai Kozhanov was called Justice in Lipetsk (Pravda, No. 140, 2015). The case was, indeed, unique for the Lipetsk region: for 113 mandates of deputies of the representative bodies of the Izmalkovsky district, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation nominated 93 candidates. More than 50 reached registration, and the election was won by the general director of the people's enterprise Izmalkovsky elevator Sergey Gennadievich Muzalev, who at that moment was in a pre-trial detention center due to a hastily initiated criminal case against him.

The OBVIOUS FAILURE of far-fetched accusations against the general director of NP Izmalkovsky Elevator did not stop the attempts of raider seizure of the enterprise.

On the morning of February 17, the work of the elevator was paralyzed by the actions of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Lipetsk Region, who confiscated office equipment and documentation as part of a certain criminal case, the details of which were not reported to the management of the enterprise. It got to the point that the guards sealed the service toilet and put a bucket in the corridor for needs. The general director S.G. Muzalev is sure that under the cover of the security forces there was another attempt to raid the elevator in favor of a certain Limak company.

It also says a lot that during the search, representatives of the media were removed from the premises of the office, who tried to find out the circumstances of the case. A police officer tried to take the journalist's camera away when he saw him taking pictures. The general director of the enterprise was protected from communication with the press by several strong men in civilian clothes.

“This is already the fourth search since the autumn of last year,” the executive director of the enterprise, L.N. Denisov. “Today, all documents are being seized. They do it without description. How will they return then? Everything is done with intent. We saw service certificates for only two employees, the rest seem to be with them. They even seized documents for equipment. Some employees had their personal phones taken away so that there would be no filming. Everything is being done to paralyze the work of the people's enterprise.

While the searches were going on, another truck drove into the gate of the elevator to unload. The enterprise continued to work - the grain will not wait.

Only in the evening, after the police had removed everything confiscated from the elevator, did S.G., the general director of the people's enterprise, give his comments. Muzalev:

- At our enterprise, investigative actions were taken against Nina Nikulnikova, general director of Invest-Agro LLC. She is charged under the first part of Article 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for criminal liability for abuse of power. The fact is that in January last year, 1,600 shareholders of five village councils of the Izmalkovsky district at meetings decided to terminate the lease agreements for their land with Invest-Agro and conclude them with our people's enterprise. Some people didn't like it very much. And now the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Lipetsk Region, pursuing Nikulnikova, for some reason decided to seize all the documentation from us, which greatly complicated the operation of the elevator. Repeated threats against us from Nikolai Tagintsev, the deputy head of the region in charge of agriculture, and the head of the regional department of agriculture, Oleg Dolgikh, are becoming a reality in order to force us to transfer control of the elevator to the Limak company. At first, we were tortured by inspections of controlling organizations, now the police are coming to us ...

According to Sergei Muzalev, the price of the elevator is 50 million rubles. Plus the shares of the villagers, which together make up 12,800 hectares of land. It turns out a really good jackpot, in the struggle for which the authorities do not shy away from any means.

By the way, the very next day after the invasion, on February 18, at the regular session of the regional Council, Oleg Dolgikh suggested that the deputies transfer without competition to firms unknown in the region the property of all enterprises that were part of Lipetsk State Unitary Enterprise: AGROKONSALTING LLC, Soglasie LLC, AGRORESURS LLC and 21.25 shares national enterprise Izmalkovsky elevator. At the same time, all their property was sold for a price 10 times less than its estimated value. (In March 2015, the assets of the enterprise were estimated at almost 1.5 billion rubles.)

At the same time, OGUP Lipetsk itself was created in 2010 on the initiative of the head of the regional administration O.P. Queen. In his authorized capital then 150 million rubles were poured from the regional budget to cover the losses in the amount of 8.5 billion rubles received by the region's farms from the activities of their previous owners. During the disposition of the shares of subsidiaries, Lipetsk carried out a number of successful restructuring measures accounts payable, as a result of which the volume of debts to counterparties was reduced by more than 5 billion rubles. And at this stage, the stage of the beginning of the growth of farms that were previously dying of insanity (for example, the dairy herd in Soglasie LLC now gives 18% of all milk received in the region), the regional administration decides to sell Lipetskoye OGUP!

Here is how the deputy chairman of the Communist Party faction in the regional Council S.V. commented on the situation at the session of the regional council Tokarev:

- The authorities talk a lot about supporting cooperation and people's enterprises, but they give away the property of Lipetsk State Unitary Enterprise, which owns almost a quarter of the shares of the people's enterprise Izmalkovsky elevator, for a pittance! And where will the 750 jobs created at Lipetsk State Unitary Enterprise during its work go? What will be the fate of several socially oriented projects? Can someone guarantee the deputies of the regional Council that the new owners, to whom, I emphasize, without bidding, that is, not on market conditions, they want to transfer several successfully operating agricultural enterprises at once, will they keep these jobs? Someone guarantees that livestock will not be slaughtered, machinery and equipment will not become scrap metal? We, the Communist Party faction, will vote against such a decision.

The arguments of the communist deputy were not heard. As a result, with eight against and one abstaining deputy, Lipetsk went under the hammer for a penny ...

At the end of the session, Deputy S.V. Tokarev asked law enforcement once again pay attention to the events that are unfolding around the NP Izmalkovsky elevator.

On the night of March 16-17 in Izmalkovo, near a private house, unidentified persons fired from firearms official car of the general director of the enterprise. Sergey Muzalev, fortunately, was not in the car at that moment. The car received five holes. Law enforcement agencies are investigating.

So, there is another attempt to intimidate S.G. Muzalev, a deputy of the Preobrazhensky village council, elected from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, a person who takes an active socio-political position, firmly defending the interests of his voters and the rights of the labor collective he leads.

And soon such a cunning maneuver was carried out. On April 5, at an extraordinary session of the Preobrazhensky Village Council of the Izmalkovsky District, a decision was made ... on self-dissolution: six out of nine deputies wrote statements that they were resigning from themselves as people's deputies.

This is the same village council that was elected by the residents of Preobrazhenye only in September 2015! This is the same village council, which included a deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation S.G. Muzalev! The village council, which by this decision created an unprecedented situation in the region: the elected body dissolves itself without warning ...

- It's not the first time they United Russia deputies were elected, except for your representative, - said the villager Natalia. “We didn’t see the fruits of their work, so now we haven’t noticed any changes. But the deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Sergei Gennadievich Muzalev, unlike them, began to actively show himself, met with people, responded to our requests. This is probably why they removed their powers so that they could put a spoke in his wheels and not show their idleness.

True, the head of the village administration has a different opinion about the unique self-dissolution of deputies elected in September last year. There was, they say, moral pressure from the villagers, so the deputies were forced to resign. And even some kind of gathering seemed to have gathered, where everything was decided. But the villagers fundamentally disagree with this version: Yes, let them continue to be listed as deputies: there was neither benefit nor harm from them. And Muzalev would work ...

According to Sergey Muzalev, the decision to dissolve himself was made by his colleagues for the sole reason - the unwillingness of the authorities to see him, a supporter of the Communist Party, as a member of this local government.

- An extraordinary session of the village council was convened in violation of existing norms. All deputies, except for me, are members of United Russia. The villagers, of course, are indignant: after all, they elected deputies for work, and not for self-dissolution.

The new composition of the Preobrazhensky Village Council will be elected on the Single Voting Day on September 18 this year. Muzalev believes that for sure all the deputies of the self-dissolved village council will again run for this self-government body. True, it is not known what they will say to voters this time. But something else is known: the budget of the rural settlement was drawn up before half of this year. Consequently, for more than half a year, the inhabitants of Preobrazhenye will have to forget about the help of the district and regional budgets with all the ensuing consequences.

Muzalev himself also firmly intends to run for the new composition of the Preobrazhensky village council, if by that time he does not fall under court. He has repeatedly declared his innocence of the crime he is accused of and is sure that he was the victim of reprisals by corrupt officials who want to take over the successful people's enterprise he heads.

Disagreeing with the decision of the exhausted deputies, S.G. Muzalev decided to challenge their decision through the court. But it was not there. The court found a lot of violations, but ... actually admitted its impotence. The court ruling reads literally the following: The reason for making these statements was the indignation of the inhabitants of the rural settlement at the inaction of the Council of Deputies regarding issues significant in the rural settlement. At the same time, the court does not care at all that the budget of the settlement was drawn up before July, and then simply - zero! But, as the judge clarified, there is no the legislative framework, which determines the need to adopt a regional law on the dissolution of the Council of Deputies of a rural settlement.

And if there is no law, then the strange initiative of the deputies, they say, does not contradict anything ...

This is how we deal with justice. And ahead - new elections. And although the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin repeats that the pre-election competition must be fair and transparent, take place within the framework of the law, and that no one doubts the effectiveness and objectivity of the work of election commissions, the reality in our region, alas, so far indicates the opposite. One has only to watch, for example, video footage from one of the city portals (which, however, was deleted after 30 minutes), where the head of the Lipetsk Regional Electoral Commission, Yu.I. Altukhov orders by phone the number of votes needed.

So, Yuri Altukhov is sitting in his office and talking to someone on the phone, giving instructions that ten thousand votes is not enough. Then he turns to his employee and says that 34-35 thousand votes should be included in the final protocol.

A deputy's request and a disk with this video were sent to the new head of the CEC of the Russian Federation, E.A. Pamfilova. From there came the answer that the materials were sent further - to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. I would like to believe that with another head of the regional election commission, the entire September election campaign will be different. You look, and they will finally leave Sergey Muzalev behind ...

In conclusion, I would like to note that, in contrast to this whole murky story with attempts on the Izmalkovsky elevator and its leader, there is one bright event. The general director of the enterprise, Sergey Gennadievich Muzalev, wrote an application for joining the ranks of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and expressed a desire to go to the elections from our party to the regional Council of Deputies. So let's fight!

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"New News" report on the peculiarities of the election campaign in the neighboring Lipetsk region. There, the nomination of a notorious Lipetsk businessman to the Preobrazhensky Village Council accompanies the investigation of a number of criminal cases, where the candidate is the defendant.

Recall that Sergey Muzalev became widely known as the director of the regional state enterprise "Lipetsk" (established in 2010 to support agricultural producers experiencing financial difficulties), which the head of the enterprise brought to the brink of bankruptcy. The management of the OGUP actively attracted credit funds under the guarantees of the regional budget, pledge of property, both enterprises of the region and farms managed by them. And the money, starting to work in numerous LLCs and cooperatives affiliated with Mr. Muzalev and the OGUP, also dissolved in them. As well as more or less liquid property of a state enterprise. In the administration of Lipetsk, at first they were convinced that Lipetsk was coping with the functions assigned to it. Only in March 2015, Governor Oleg Korolev found out about what was happening and terminated the contract with Mr. Muzalev. The governor also instructed the relevant departments of the administration to inspect the economic activity of the enterprise. In turn, the management of the OGUP tried to "help" the inspectors. The economic documents on the activities of the OGUP for the entire period of its existence were destroyed or hidden, which in itself is a malfeasance. All OGUP employees have been fired. A number of actions were carried out, including illegal ones, as a result of which the state-owned LLC Soglasie lost, and the private JSC NP Izmalkovsky Elevator suddenly acquired a long-term right to lease 15,000 hectares of land.

Criminal cases were initiated, and in September 2015, Mr. Muzalev was taken into custody. And then the most amazing thing happened: the local Communist Party came to the aid of the scandalous businessman. The Communists nominated Sergei Muzalev to the deputies of a rural settlement in the Izmalkovsky district. In the election, he received only 36 votes. But that was enough for the election. By law, municipal deputies have the right to a special procedure for criminal proceedings. This is what Mr. Muzalev, apparently, was trying to achieve.

When Sergei Muzalev became a deputy, the criminal cases against him were transferred to the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Lipetsk Region to a certain person. The case suddenly began to face "difficulties of a procedural and procedural nature." Sergei Muzalev was released from custody. But later the criminal case was transferred to another investigator, apparently, it will be completed soon.

In turn, the hero of history tried to give the case a political character. In this, his communist friends help him. In particular, the head of the Lipetsk branch of the Communist Party, State Duma deputy Nikolai Razvorotnev. He repeatedly spoke in support of Mr. Muzalev, including by sending requests to law enforcement agencies. Also in April 2016, the council of deputies of the rural settlement of Preobrazhensky made Sergei Muzalev a voting member of the election commission, thereby maintaining his status as a “special subject” in criminal proceedings. Now the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has again nominated Comrade Muzalev to municipal deputies and even accepted him into its ranks. Support helps the newly minted communist feel calm and unpunished.

According to sources, Muzalev and partners have begun the case in which they ate the dog for a long time: the withdrawal of assets, and most importantly, land shares, from the owners. This time we are talking about JSC NP Izmalkovsky Elevator. They decide not to cultivate the land they received on lease, but

Resell as soon as possible, neglecting both the interests of the people who own the shares of the enterprise, and the interests of land shareholders. The search for a buyer led to the desired result. A new player appears on the stage - LLC "Istoki" from the city of Odintsovo, Moscow Region.

And since the enterprising citizens are greatly hindered by the criminal cases already initiated on a number of their illegal actions, the General Director of Origins LLC, Mr. Zhivolup A.S. sent a complaint to the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for, as the media writes, "artificial creation of obstacles to the investigation and pressure on investigators." News on Notebook-Lipetsk

Presumably, Muzalev Sergey Gennadievich is the head of the companies, the list of which you see below. It is also possible that these companies are managed by different people with similar names and surnames. This information was obtained based on the analysis of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, may be outdated and does not violate 152-FZ "On Personal Data" in accordance with Art. 6 129-FZ "On State Registration legal entities and individual entrepreneurs.

OGUP "LIPETSKOE"

REGIONAL STATE UNITARY ENTERPRISE "LIPETSKOE"

Region: Lipetsk region

Address: 398050, LIPETSK, pl. PLEKHANOVA, 3, apt. 506

Activities:

• . Crop production combined with animal husbandry (mixed agriculture);
• . Provision of services related to the reproduction of fish and aquatic biological resources;
• . Wholesale agricultural raw materials and live animals;

Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service for the LEVOBEREZHNY district of LIPETSK

SPSSK "UNITED MILK PRODUCERS"

AGRICULTURAL CONSUMER SUPPLY AND MARKET COOPERATIVE "UNITED MILK PRODUCERS"

Region: Lipetsk region

LLC "AGENCY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT"

LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY"

Region: Lipetsk region

Address: 398050, LIPETSK, st. ZHELYABOV, d. 2

SKPSSK "IZMALKOVSKY"

AGRICULTURAL CREDIT CONSUMER SUPPLY AND MARKET COOPERATIVE "IZMALKOVSKY"

Region: Lipetsk region

Address: 399000, LIPETSK region, Izmalkovsky district, s. IZMALKOVO, st. SOVIETSKAYA, 36, apt. 10

These days, reports are coming in from the field that here and there the month-and-a-half election race is derailing into a scandalous false start. As The Moscow Post reported the day before, another such scandal erupted in the Lipetsk region.

Sergei Muzalev, candidate for deputy of the Preobrazhensky Village Council, was at the center of the scandal [directly related with the brother of the ex-Minister of Union of Artists Skrynnik - Ruspres], against whom investigations are ongoing in a number of criminal cases. But this did not prevent the leadership of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation to take him under guardianship and begin to correct the image in the eyes of voters.

Muzalev gained fame as the director of the regional state enterprise "Lipetsk". It was formed in 2010 to support agricultural producers experiencing financial difficulties. But instead of correcting the situation in crisis farms, the head of the enterprise brought them to near bankruptcy. And the fault was not inflated interest rates on loans, not the lack of regional subsidies and guarantees for bank loans (they just were), but directly the management of Lipetsk State Unitary Enterprise.

The management of the OGUP was very active in attracting credit funds under guarantees of the regional budget, pledge of property, both enterprises of the region and farms managed by them. And the money, starting to work in numerous LLCs and cooperatives, of which there were always many around Muzalev and OGUP, as a rule, was dissolved there. In the same place, any more or less liquid property of a state enterprise was "dissolved" - current, warehouses, real estate (office, residential), agricultural machinery and, the most "sweet" for plunderers - land.

The administration of the region was not aware of what was happening. Muzalev skillfully falsified reports and convinced officials of the effectiveness of his activities. Upstairs, for the time being, they were convinced that Lipetskoye was coping with the functions assigned to it. But in March 2015, Governor Oleg Korolev finally found out the truth, terminated the contract with Muzalev and instructed the relevant departments of the administration to inspect the economic activities of the enterprise.

In turn, Muzalev did everything in his power to make it difficult to carry out this work and snatch everything that had not yet been stolen from the enterprise that had actually gone bankrupt. All economic documents on the activities of the OGUP for the entire period of its existence were destroyed or taken out and hidden, which in itself is an official crime. All OGUP employees have been fired. A number of actions were carried out, including illegal ones, as a result of which the state-owned Soglasie LLC lost, and the private JSC NP Izmalkovsky Elevator suddenly acquired the long-term right to lease 15,000 hectares of land.

During the checks, many secrets became clear and led to the initiation of a number of criminal cases against such an enterprising figure. Of course, the lack of economic documentation is a serious obstacle to the collection of evidence, but nevertheless, criminal cases were initiated and in September last year, Muzalev was detained and placed in custody. At first glance, it is inexplicable, but the local branch of the Communist Party came to his aid, which nominated him as a deputy of a rural settlement in the Izmalkovsky district. Then in the elections, he received only 36 votes. But that was enough for the election. By law, municipal deputies have the right to a special procedure for criminal proceedings. This is exactly what Muzalev wanted.

When Muzalev became a deputy, the criminal cases against him were transferred to the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Lipetsk Region to a certain investigator, who turned out to be a former colleague and close friend of Muzalev's first deputy, Markov Ivan Ivanovich. A fairly simple at first glance case during this period began to face serious difficulties of a procedural and procedural nature, led to the release of Muzalev from custody and almost fell apart. But it did not grow together, the case was eventually transferred to another investigator, it continues and will apparently be completed soon.

Subsequently, Muzalev turned to his favorite tactics, tried to give his case a political character. His friends also help him with this. In particular, the head of the Lipetsk branch of the Communist Party, State Duma deputy Nikolai Razvorotnev. He repeatedly spoke in support of Muzalev, including. and sending inquiries to law enforcement agencies. In April of this year, the Council of Deputies of the rural settlement of Preobrazhensky made Muzalev a voting member of the election commission, thereby maintaining his status as a “special subject” in criminal proceedings. Now CPRF again nominated Muzalev to the municipal deputies and even accepted him into their ranks.

Support helps the newly minted communist feel calm enough and with impunity. He still acts cynically and dodgy. He decides not to cultivate the land suddenly received by JSC employees of NP Izmalkovsky Elevator, but to resell it as soon as possible, neglecting both the interests of the people who own the shares of the Izmalkovsky Elevator enterprise and the interests and will of the land shareholders who once unconditionally trusted him . The search for a buyer led to the desired result. A new quirky player appears on the scene - "Istoki" LLC from the city Odintsovo Moscow region.

Having concluded a sublease agreement for disputed lands, Soglasie LLC declares the crop that has already risen to be its property, it begins measures to intimidate everything and everyone. Oryol region, but for some reason the employees of this private security company are entirely natives of the Chechen Republic. According to the latest data, its personnel on the territory of the Izmalkovsky district of the Lipetsk region has already reached 40 people.

Unprecedented pressure began on land owners. I must say that in the Izmalkovsky district, repeated meetings of the owners of land shares were held, at which people, having discovered that they had been previously misled, by an absolute majority voted in favor of concluding a land lease agreement with Soglasie LLC, which has been cultivating this land for 5 years. And about 30 people wrote an application to the court to invalidate previously concluded contracts. These are the people who came under pressure. They are threatened with joint and several liability for losses that may be incurred by Istokami in the future in the amount of, for some reason, 150 million rubles. For inexperienced Izmalkovo shareholders, such a threat is probably a very weighty argument, this has never been seen here.

Well, thirdly. Since Muzalev and those standing behind him are now very hampered by some criminal cases that have already been initiated on a number of their illegal actions, by the general director of Istok LLC, Mr. Zhivolup A.S. a complaint was prepared and sent to the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in order to artificially create obstacles to the investigation and pressure on investigators. However, all the cases created by Muzalev cannot be closed even with the help of "Sources".

Nikolay Maksimov