Lion of the Mount is the father of Hellas of the Mount. Oleg Sorokin: biography, family. The richest wife of an official in Russia came out of the shadows
In 2014 wife of the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod Elada Nagornaya presented the city with a five-meter sculpture of a steel deer. Citizens reacted skeptically to the donated animal, accusing the lady of pettiness, since it was officially known that in 2013 alone, Nagornaya earned 1.7 billion rubles, having won the title of "the richest wife of a Russian official."
Of course, in comparison with some spouses of other mayors of the past, Elada Lvovna nervously smokes on the sidelines. She herself understands this, and therefore shows incredible modesty: the townspeople learned about the prosperity of the family of their mayor from the blog of State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov, who published the "income statement" submitted by the spouses to the local parliament.
The townspeople did not like such restraint. Earlier this year, they began collecting signatures for their resignation. Mayor Oleg Sorokin... Now under the petition addressed to Vladimir Putin, more than 2.7 thousand signatures. Residents of the city suspect the mayor of allegedly affiliated construction companies destroying the city center with almost 800 years of history. And somehow it turns out that not only monuments are crumbling, but also the fate of those who are trying to resist them.
The figure of Sorokin appeared on the political field in the early 2000s, when Nizhny became the center of the Volga federal district... “To transfer the city to the capital level, the authorities were interested in a very serious participation, as they said in the embassy,“ businesses, ”recalls political analyst Viktor Lysov. “On this wave, Stolitsa Nizhniy has turned into one of the partners in various projects for“ capitalism ”, and the developer Oleg Sorokin has turned into a potentially noticeable player on the political and economic market of the city."
New times of the "old Nizhny"
"Old Nizhny" - a historical center with streets scattered from the Kremlin and built up by merchant estates - turned into a front line in the war between the townspeople and the developers. And most of the construction companies, which act on the townspeople like a red rag on a bull, are controlled by the mayor, or rather, by his wife: Nagornaya lost all her husband's assets to trust management five years ago.
There is debate about their number. For a year now, a list of "110 companies of Oleg Sorokin" has been wandering around the Web, laid out by anonymous users, which, of course, should be treated with skepticism, but it does not interfere with checking. Nagornaya, according to this unconfirmed information, owns a third, the rest is allegedly the assets of the business partners of the mayor and his wife. At least 300 names are mentioned: relatives, local parliamentarians and officials, but bosom partners - businessmen Maxim and Pavel Akatov - are immediately visible. Everyone is listed as a “co-founder” of these assets at least a dozen times. Another partner, Oleg Golovko (became the general director of Stolitsa Nizhny LLC after Sorokin) is a co-owner of at least a dozen companies.
An idea of the "benefits" of a possible business get-together is provided by the income declaration of the Sorokin family, which Dmitry Gudkov published on the Web at the end of last year.
Secret declaration
At the end of 2013, Oleg Sorokin's income amounted to “only” 168 million rubles. But Elada Nagornaya brought 1 billion 734 million 441 thousand rubles to the family. 1.5 billion of this impressive amount is income from business activities. According to the declaration, Nagornaya is a co-founder of 21 companies. These data confirm the data of SPARK.
Nagornaya owns a residential building, three apartments, seven garages, 15 land plots, 43 non-residential premises (shops, shopping malls). In the "transport" section - 5 "cars" ( along the roads of the Lower wife of the mayor, probably travels on PorscheCayenneS and BMW 750Li, and in its vicinity - on a snowmobile and a swamp vehicle). But the most worthy vehicles - the 2012 Bentley Continental GT and the Smart Fortwo - registered not in the traffic police of the Nizhny Novgorod region, but in the city of Cannes, which is in France. The same "home port" and two of Sorokin's seven "cars" - Porsche Cayenne 2006 and Mercedes-Benz E 250 CGI.
The Sorokins have two villas in Nice - 262 and 400 sq. meters, about which it is modestly said that they are only in use by the mayor. Like his wife. One could agree with this one hundred percent, if, according to extracts from the register of real estate in France (available to the editors), the 23-year-old son of the Sorokins couple, Nikita, had not been the owner of the villas.
There is also confirmation of our guesses in open sources. For example, here is information about the "steward" VILLA LA CROIX DES GARDES (Cannes, Boulevard Des Pins, 1) and HEUREUX EPIDAURE (Cannes, Boulevard Bel Horizon, 266).
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Translation: The company was founded on January 20, 2012, is registered in the real estate register under the number SIREN 539 357 871. The company specializes in the lease of land and other real estate. The General Director of HEUREUX EPIDAURE is Elada Nagornaya, born in 1973.
Registering real estate to a son is a completely logical scheme, given that the law does not oblige officials to declare income and property of adult children. However, in France, the Sorokin family is not lurking. On the gate of VillalaCroixdesGardes there is the name of the Nizhny Novgorod mayor.
House of Sorokins. Images courtesy of the Anti-Corruption Foundation
“We, ordinary residents Nizhny Novgorod Perhaps we can be proud that we have the richest wife of an official, such a “golden woman,” says Aleksey Yakimov, a member of the NRO Council of the Fair Russia party. - But it doesn't work. The declarations confirm: the well-being of the Sorokin family is growing at the same time as the budget is becoming impoverished. "
Declaration of non-accountability
Since 2010, the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod has been elected from among the deputies of the City Duma - he becomes "candidate No. 1" from " United Russia". According to federal law, parliamentarians are not obliged to report their income at all, but Sorokin's regional norm still obliges to do this. As for the spouse of the first person, her declaration can be submitted to the public only with her consent. Elada Nagornaya did not give such consent.
Last year, the prosecutor of Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir Nikonov, spoke out against such a "freeman" - through his efforts, a bill on the promulgation of declarations was submitted to the City Duma. The confrontation ended with the fact that the legal department of the Duma concluded that Nikonov's initiative did not comply with federal legislation. The prosecutor's office lost the courts, and soon the fighter for "openness" lost his post.
Perpetual checks
Attempts to get an answer about material well-being from Oleg Sorokin himself, they ended in nothing three times. In 2004, his work as the find director of the Nizhny Novgorod Road Fund was checked by the Ministry of Finance. This story might have been worth forgetting if it had not surfaced in 2015 (but more on that later). In 2013, transactions with the city of companies that were suspected of affiliation with the mayor's family were checked by the prosecutor's office of the Nizhny Novgorod region.
On November 14, a representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Markin, announced the next check. In the department of the Investigative Committee for the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Colonel of Justice Yulia Sklyarova confirmed this information to "Novaya", noting that "the timing of the inspection has not been set." The reason was two land transactions, “concluded in 2011-2012 by the city administration with the companies Regioninvest52” and Ingradstroy affiliated with close relatives of Sorokin, ”General Markin said. For several months, investigators have been studying "the circumstances of the actual participation of the head of the city in the management of commercial organizations." In August 2012, the prosecutor of the Nizhny Novgorod region asked to check under what circumstances these companies received the plots.
In March 2013, they even initiated a case under article 165, part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Causing damage by deception or abuse of trust." At the same time, searches were carried out in the companies "Stolitsa Nizhny" and "Start-Stroy", owned by members of the mayor's family. It all ended with nothing: first, prosecutor Kozhevnikov was dismissed from his post and transferred to Lipetsk, and in February 2014 the case was closed for lack of corpus delicti.
They are used to checks in relation to the mayor in Nizhny. “Yes, at first the people were excited - especially when Markin made a statement. But I have a feeling that in the investigating authorities there are daddies for everyone and everything in this country, - suggests political scientist Valentina Buzmakova. "From time to time they get them, and when the situation changes, they put them back."
No competitors
In addition to prosecutors, businessmen were also burned on the Sorokin family. Several sad stories taught them not to "go on trouble".
In 2010, Zhilstroy-NN won the tender for the development of the site, promising the city 14% of the completed apartments. The company Nagornaya "Start-Stroy" contacts the local OFAS. The anti-monopoly authorities find violations during the competition - Zhilstroy-NN is out of the project. The site goes to "Start-Stroy", which is building four multi-storey buildings. For some reason, the city did not receive apartments: at least in the public space, nothing is known about the opposite.
Two years later, Ingradstroy (the RF IC calls this company close to the mayor's family. - Ed.), On leasehold rights, it receives 453 hectares for construction in the Soviet district of the city. The results of the competition in OFAS were contested by two Moscow companies - ZhBK-Stroy LLC and Vektron CJSC. Entrepreneur Mansur Sadekov enters the last company offering a 30 millionth bribe for withdrawing the appeal. He is taken red-handed - Sadekov publicly declares: for a crime under Art. 204 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (commercial bribery) went on the orders of Sorokin. As a result, the mayor was interrogated as a witness, and Sadekov was sent to "Matrosskaya Tishina", having released only in October 2014 - after paying a fine of 307.2 million rubles. The ill-fated plot remained with the Ingradstroy company, whose owners reached the Higher arbitration court, which canceled the decision of the OFAS.
The last example is history general director LLC "MFK-Invest" by Alexander Bekusov, who entered the construction market with the intention of investing more than 2.5 billion in the economy of the Nizhny Novgorod region, and as a result lost 700 million and spent six months in jail.
According to Bekusov, the problems began when MFK-Invest began construction of housing "at a price that is two times less than that of competitors." In 2011, the entrepreneur was "hung" with the debts of the company, in which at that time he had not worked for two years. Under this pretext, searches were carried out at MFK-Invest LLC: all accounts were arrested, and cash was seized. Construction stopped.
For half a year, 125 cases were opened in the SIZO on Bekusov Street according to the applications of equity holders and contractors, who, according to the entrepreneur, “were summoned to the police to submit applications”. Saved by the economic amnesty announced in July 2013. Her condition is compensation for the victims: Bekusov paid 140 million. The criminal cases were dropped, and when he was released, the businessman distributed the debts.
“In Nizhny there is a monopoly of large developers, so the emergence of new companies is not preferable,” concludes Bekusov.
Without the "old Nizhny"
Unlike businesses, city defenders don't give up so easily. But they have to resist both the authorities and the developers. “Since 2010, the destruction of the historic center has gone exponentially,” notes Aleksey Yakimov, a member of the NRO Council of the Fair Russia party. “In 2013, city defenders almost every day went to bed under a bulldozer - now on one street, then on another”. A striking example of such resistance is the struggle for the block bounded by Gorky, Novaya and Ilyinskaya streets.
The city's investment council decided in 2006 to build residential buildings on the territory of the triangle built up with old merchant estates. The place is unique - in the house number 74 on the street. Gorky, for example, Alexey Peshkov lived in 1879. Initially, the entire quarter fell under protection, but gradually the protection zone "shrank" to one house.
The project was implemented within the framework of the national program "Affordable and Comfortable Housing - for Russian Citizens"... The scheme turned out to be anecdotal: first, the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region spent 370 budget million on resettlement of residential buildings and demolition of dilapidated housing, and then officials sold the cleared area to OOO Regioninvest52 for only 84.3 million rubles.
In 2012, the "national program" aroused the sincere interest of the prosecutor's office: the "supervisors" not only pointed out that such a "price" "did not correspond" to the 370 millionth budget expenditure, but also directly stated: the cost of a site located in the very historical center, they considered, "based on the average market value of new economy class buildings at the zero stage of construction." True, this check also bypassed the participants in the scheme - no cases were opened against the officials.
Now in the "triangle" there is a cleanup of historical buildings. In January, a bulldozer destroyed the L.A. House. Davydova-Pecherkina.
Belvedere vs. Bulldozer
A small house with a carved gazebo on 46a Novaya Street does not desperately look like a symbol of struggle. The estate of the merchants Burmistrovs built in 1890 is notable for its hexagonal turret behind a carved pediment and for its extraordinary fate. He owes her to his last owner - pensioner Lydia Alexandrovna Davydova-Pecherkina, who in the 1970s exchanged a comfortable "odnushka" for two rooms in the same mansion with an attic.
Having become the owner of the entire house in the 1990s, Lydia Aleksandrovna turned the dilapidated housing into a city landmark. In 2000, the house was given the status of a newly identified cultural heritage site, which, however, was taken away four years later. The house outlived its defender for a year and a half: Lydia Alexandrovna passed away on August 11, 2013, the estate with a carved belvedere - on January 12, 2015. After the death of the pensioner, her distant relatives sold the building to Regioninvest52 LLC, and the developer demolished it.
Moreover, on the very day when the activists of the organization "Green World" handed over to officials from the state security department an application for entering the house into the "security register". The officials did exactly the same with the house on Ilyinskaya Street, 126. On March 21, the results of the examination were sent to the department, the next day it was demolished by the same Regioninvest52.
One address, one name, one offshore
The Investigative Committee calls Regioninvest52 LLC a company affiliated with the mayor. The first person of the city denies these connections, although there are good reasons for such a conclusion.
The legal address of Regioninvest52 is st. Maxim Gorky, 117. According to SPARK, at least three companies of Elada Nagornaya are registered at this address: Indor-NN LLC (60% share), Stroyindustriya LLC (60% share), Stroyinvest-52 LLC (60% share).
There are also connections at the level of personalities. According to SPARK, Ilya Alexandrovich Balmusov is the director of Regioninvest52 LLC. And here's an interesting coincidence: in 2008 it was he who was the director of Khoreka-NN LLC, at a time when Oleg Sorokin, Elada Nagornaya, Oleg Golovko and Pavel Akatov were its co-owners (remember these names?). By the way, Nagornaya herself was Balmusov's predecessor as the manager of Khoreka-NN LLC - she was the director of the office in 2006.
It is also interesting that Khoreka-NN LLC, which connects the director of Regioninvest52 LLC, the mayor, his wife and their main business partners, is registered at the address typical for companies from the “110 list”: st. Belinsky, 61. Together with Khoreka-NN, six active companies of Nagornaya are registered here: Plaza-Holding LLC (100%), STN-REKLAMA LLC, Bereg LLC (50%), Investproekt ”(60%), LLC“ Sorenta ”(75%) and LLC“ Sistema ”(75%).
Another quite noticeable connection can be found in the decision to initiate a criminal case, dated March 26, 2013 (available to the editorial office). The document states: “The funds contributed as a deposit, LLC Regioninvest52 received on 07.12.2011 from LLC Start-Stroy, with which a loan agreement was concluded for 84.5 million rubles under the personal guarantee of one of the founders of Start- Stroy "- Golovko OV"
The turnover of connections ends if we find out who owns Regioninvest52 LLC. According to SPARK, the owner of the company is the Cypriot offshore WAMILINVESTMENTSLIMITED. Traces of WAMIL go back to those distant times when the future mayor of Nizhny was responsible for the finances of the regional Dorfond. Through those who now manage WAMIL (and, accordingly, Regioninvest52 LLC), budget millions went beyond the cordon.
The Ministry of Finance's control and auditing department came to this conclusion in 2004 - following the results of an audit of the Far Eastern Federal District, a criminal case was instituted against the future mayor "on the fact of embezzlement of budgetary funds in the amount of over 500 million rubles and subsequent legalization." The Far Eastern Federal District registered the purchases of fuel and materials through dozens of "one-day firms", as a result, "the total turnover of dubious financial transactions" exceeded 5 billion rubles. The money was “laundered” through the Cypriot offshores directly related to the Cypriot owners of Regioninvest52 LLC.
The Cyprus real estate registry states: the director of WAMILINVESTMENTSLIMITED is a certain NFINB MRLBYVBU, in translation from Greek into Russian - Dina Blaivas. A similar name appears in a letter that Nizhny Novgorod prosecutor Kozhevnikov addressed to Deputy Plenipotentiary of the Volga Federal District Alexei Sukhov in August 2012 (available to the editorial office):
“In the Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service of Russia, the documents for registration were submitted by the director of WAMILINVESTMENTSLIMITED Blavais D.A. (it can be assumed that the last name is obviously incorrect. - Ed . ), the location of which was not established during the consideration of the appeal ”.
The location of the native of Nizhny Novgorod, born in 1959, "Novaya" was helped to determine the account of the director of WAMIL on Facebook. This is Cyprus, its capital is Nicosia. According to official biography, MD, Director of the Center for Speleotherapy in Nicosia graduated from the Gorky Medical Institute and worked in Nizhny Novgorod as a cardiologist. In 1992 she moved to Cyprus.
Photos of the spouses Blivas from open sources
Dina and her husband Mikhail Blaivas are managers of a number of offshore companies that appear in the materials of the criminal case on embezzlement from the Road Fund.
In 2013, the Nizhny Novgorod edition "Pravda Volga Federal District" indicates, citing a source in law enforcement agencies: in 2003, during searches, documents were found proving that Dina Blaivas "registered a number of companies for Sorokin and Golovko through her office in Nicosia."
WAMILINVESTMENTSLIMITED shares its registered office with several other companies. Neighbors - SOMONAENTERPRISESLIMITED and CRISANTOHOLDINGLIMITED. The secretary of all three firms is ΜΑΡΙΝΑ ΦΩΤΙΟΥ. And among her “friends” on Facebook, Dina Blaivas has a certain Marina Fotiou. Moskvichka lives in Cyprus and since April 2010 has been working as an administrator at the legal office Elena Constantinou & Co. The office of the company, which since 1994 has been engaged in the "registration and servicing of international companies", is located at the same address as WAMIL, SOMONA and CRISANTO.
In the 2002 criminal case, there were a dozen offshore companies through which the funds of the Far Eastern Federal District were flowing. Sredinikh - Cypriot residents CHIBO WORLDWIDE LIMITED, RISKRUT ENTERPRISES LIMITED and LECON NOMINEES LIMITED; Director of the first - Nina Blaivas, secretary - Elena Konstantinova. Konstantinova is again listed as the second and third secretaries. The offshore ALOA - VERA LIMITED closes the circle, the directors of which are Nina and Mikhail Blaivas.
Strategic loans, general managers, one address and offshore acquaintances - there is a reason to think, agree. However, the Sorokin family still claims: there is no connection here.
But "Greece has everything." Or - in Cannes.
P. S. Elada Nagornaya did not respond to the request of Novaya Gazeta, and the press service of the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, Oleg Sorokin, said: "The head of the city has repeatedly stated that he does not comment on the activities of law enforcement agencies, because everyone should do their job." However, we asked him not about this, but about the "family" business.
» became more cunning, but we also learned a thing or two. So let's continue!
On deputies from EdRa from stomped all and sundry. Therefore, we dedicate a new series mayors of United Russia.
Zomboyaschik instilled in citizens that the opposition should not be elected in executive branch due to lack of experience economic activity... Another thing is edrosy - "strong business executives", brought almost from the moon through special program"Personnel reserve" ER "".
It's time for everyone to learn about the rich management experience of the mayors of United Russia and about where they hide their "economy".
Last name so far not very well-known on a national scale, but it is worth remembering this "strong business executive".
If only because he is the mayor of the fifth most populous (!) City in Russia, which NO ONE CHOSE... In order for Sorokin to become the head of Nizhny Novgorod, United Russia canceled the popular mayoral elections. The head of the city was "elected" by the deputies of "United Russia" from the city duma. From its composition.
And, of course, in terms of the number of fur storages, Sorokin could easily compete. Indeed, in a huge city, he and his relatives control the entire market for the purchase and sale of land, the construction of shopping and entertainment centers and elite housing. And "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" claims that "Oleg Sorokin is a businessman with an extremely complex biography, who was mentioned in several scandalous situations and criminal cases."
MERCE BUSINESS
When Sorokin becomes mayor, he rewrites the business to his wife Ellada Nagornaya. Nizhny Novgorod bloggers counted 110 companies owned by the mayor and reissued to the spouse and staff members.
And then the "strong business executive" Oleg Sorokin "even more firmly" gets down to business. LLC "Start-Stroy" and its affiliated structures at unrealistically favorable prices are acquiring a number of land plots in the most attractive districts of Nizhny Novgorod. In the Prioksky district on the street. Flower, for 329 million rubles. (Ref. 1, Ref. 2) plots No. 1 and No. 3 were purchased with a total area of 21.6 hectares, in the Kanavinsky district within the boundaries of st. Karl Marx / Volzhskaya nab... land plot with an area of 8.1 hectares for 122 million rubles
The purchase of a land plot becomes aerobatics 2.17 ha, located in the historical part of the city (intersection of Gorky St. / Ilinskaya - Gorky Square), previously freed from dilapidated housing at the expense of the regional budget for 84.3 million rubles. For comparison: only the cost of resettlement cost the city treasury 370 (!) Million rubles
Using your official position, Sorokin O.V. creates preferences for its own facilities, shifting infrastructure costs to the budget. In particular, to the microdistrict "Seventh Heaven "(LLC" Start-Stroy " built there 150 thousand sq. M. housing, 100 thousand sq. m. shopping and entertainment center) at the expense of the federal budget, a 6-lane asphalt road was built. Each kilometer cost the budget 136 million rubles, and everything was done within the framework of a party project "New Roads of United Russia".
In short, the business strategy is simple - all costs are “hung” on the city, while the most profitable projects go to selected business structures. Simply put - the best land elite, construction of roads and all infrastructure - to taxpayers.
The prosecutor's office of the Nizhny Novgorod region confirms many facts, but Sorokin gets away with it. Scan of the letter from the prosecutor.
We make a call from the other side.
We have a "declared fight" type with foreign agents, NGOs, State Department money, spies, offshore companies and other foreign assets of officials and deputies. Before July 1, civil servants were required to publish declarations of expenses and income. For myself, wives and minor children.
The vice-governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region for construction also appeared here. Anton Averin:
- Most(owners: Olga Tikhonova (Averina), Anton Averin, extract + charter of the organization with signatures of the owners).
Not a word about Most in the declaration either! Where is Governor V. Shantsev looking ?!
By the way, according to the new law, not only officials, but even candidates for elective positions are obliged to get rid of foreign assets. But all friends, enemies of the law!
AN AIRPORT
They say that it is especially good in Cannes when sadistic police officers torture Russian citizens in Nizhny Novgorod, or when riot police disperse another protest rally, where girls are beaten with truncheons. But there is a problem - there are no direct flights to France from Nizhny.
« Nizhny Novgorod needs to establish direct air communication with France ", - Oleg Sorokin immediately reacts and promises to build an international airport in the capital of the Volga region! So that, for example, the wife of a "strong business executive" Ellada Nagornaya, who received the status of "Honorary Consul of Hungary in Nizhny Novgorod", could fly directly to Cannes "on the farm."
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Oleg Sorokin is a prominent domestic businessman who was involved in parliamentary activities. At one time he was vice-chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod region, led by himself. Currently, he is in custody on charges of accepting a bribe.
Biography of the politician
Oleg Sorokin was born in 1967. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod, the city was then called Gorky.
He graduated from a local commercial institute. He made a career in the field of private entrepreneurship. In 2001, he became the head of the Nizhny Stolitsa town-planning company.
He was also deputy director for finance at the territorial road fund of the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Building bussiness
Sorokin Oleg Valentinovich specialized in the construction of residential buildings, as well as large business centers and shopping and entertainment complexes.
In 2003, thanks to his efforts in Nizhny Novgorod, modern center entertainment of the European level called "Floors". Over time, a business center arose, which was called "Capital Nizhny".
In 2006, Oleg Sorokin began to build the largest residential complex of multi-storey buildings at that time "Seventh Heaven". Not far from the Volga embankment, 18 houses were designed. The project was completed by 2012.
Since 2007, the Fantastika shopping mall has been under construction, which in 2013 was bought by the Auchan company.
After Oleg Sorokin became mayor, his wife took over the leadership of his business empire. She already launched the construction of a residential complex, which received beautiful name"Flowers" in 2012, opened the shopping center "Seventh Heaven", which started working near the residential complex of the same name.
Among the major projects recent years It is worth noting the beginning of the construction of the Aquamarine residential complex, the construction of a house on Svoboda Square, a restaurant on the Volzhskaya embankment.
At the very beginning of the business career of Sorokin Oleg Valentinovich, it was risky. In 2003, he was nearly killed during an assassination attempt. The businessman was fired upon in the car. Sorokin received three bullet wounds, he underwent several emergency operations.
A trial was held, which recognized the organizers of the attack by police lieutenant colonel Alexander Dikin and his brother Mikhail, who at that time was the vice-speaker of the regional parliament.
Mayor of Nizhny Novgorod
In 2010, Oleg Sorokin, whose photo is in this article, won the mayoral elections in Nizhny Novgorod. He was supported by 28 out of 42 deputies. In this post he replaced Vadim Bulavinov.
Sorokin's work as mayor was associated with numerous scandals. Repeatedly on federal channels there were stories about his activities. In particular, the channel "Russia 1" shot a whole documentary film, the author of which was Arkady Mamontov. One of the plots was devoted to the biography of Oleg Sorokin. It was alleged that after he became mayor, large-scale construction began in the city. For the sake of residential complexes, which were built by the mayor's wife, historical buildings were demolished.
At the same time, numerous violations were committed during the construction. For example, communications were laid not at the expense of the developer, but with money from the city budget. As a result, the treasury suffered serious damage. In the same film, a hidden camera footage was shown on which Sorokin spends his weekend in Cannes.
Conflict with the governor
In 2015, already at the end of his term, Sorokin came into conflict with Valery Shantsev, who had held this post for ten years.
Shantsev planned to appoint the new mayor Dmitry Svatkovsky, who was close to the regional government. Sorokin openly opposed this candidacy and did everything to prevent it from passing.
As a result, Ivan Karnilin became the new one.
Personal life
Oleg Sorokin and his family have appeared on the pages of the media more than once. His wife's name is Elada Lvovna Nagornaya. She is the daughter of the head of the city's Central Department Store. After her husband went into politics, she is the director of the construction department at the capital Nizhny town-planning company. Has a lot public office... For example, Nagornaya is the Honorary Consul of Hungary in Nizhny Novgorod.
According to journalists, in 2013 she became the richest wife of a Russian official. Her annual income alone was estimated at one and a half billion rubles. Since 2015, she is a co-owner of the Semyonovskaya Khokhloma Painting Limited Liability Company.
The hero of our article has three children. These are two sons, whose names are Danila and Nikita, and daughter Elizabeth. Celebrities, including federal officials, often communicate with the Sorokin family. For example, Godfather Elizabeth - who at that time was the president's commissioner for the rights of the child.
Currently, his son Nikita, who is 25 years old, is most often in public space. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. In 2016 he became a member of the regional parliament.
Sorokin's arrest
It came as a surprise to many when, on December 18, 2017, the investigative committee opened a criminal case against Sorokin. He was accused of causing significant property damage through deception. According to the investigation, Sorokin received a bribe when he was mayor.
As a result, 14 land plots were designated for housing construction. During a search in his private house, operatives found one and a half billion rubles in cash. At that time, the hero of our article was the vice-speaker of the regional parliament.
On February 19, the district court of Nizhny Novgorod ruled to detain Sorokin pending trial. In the pre-trial detention center, he will stay at least until February 17.
The wife of Oleg Sorokin, Elada Nagornaya, defended her husband on the pages of her own publication. And she reported on the persecution of the family of the detained deputy chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Elada Nagornaya, wife of the arrested vice-mayor of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Sorokin and concurrently one of the largest entrepreneurs in the region, appeared on the pages of its own edition "MK in Nizhny Novgorod" with accusations against the investigation. The woman reported the persecution of her family in connection with the arrest of her husband, which, in her opinion, is also being carried out with the filing of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
“I believe that my husband was accused of a bias, and the imprisonment is aimed at breaking his will and forcing him to admit non-existent guilt”, - says Nagornaya in her address.
According to her, the case against Sorokin began with searches in the apartment, which was attended by the head of the Investigative Directorate of the ICR in the Nizhny Novgorod region. After that, according to Nagornaya, information appeared that during the searches, over 1 billion rubles were found in cash, which is "deliberately false information." ( in January, Ivan Yudintsev, PR adviser to Oleg Sorokin, has already denied the initial report that 1.5 billion rubles were seized during searches in the house of his head, - approx. ).
"Films that were being prepared for three months, denigrating me and my husband, appeared immediately after the arrest, which shows a high degree of coordination of the allegedly private initiative with law enforcement agencies.", - Nagornaya portal newsnn.ru quotes speech.
Elada Lvovna is sure that with the filing of the Investigative Committee "false or inaccurate information is thrown in synchronously with the actions of the investigators" throughout the entire time from the initiation of the case.
According to her, it turns out that the investigation deliberately creates the impression that she and her children have left the country forever. ( On February 15, investigator Yevgeny Lagunov informed the court that the suspect's wife Elada Nagornaya and his son Nikita Sorokin are abroad and do not plan to return to Russia, during a meeting of the Nizhegorodsky District Court on the extension of the measure of restraint. ...)
"This can give the impression that I have something to hide from, fueling rumors that I, as an individual entrepreneur, may not fulfill my business obligations."- added the indignant woman in her message to the publication.
“Such actions suggest the obvious idea that the motive of the investigation is not an objective investigation in the materials of the criminal case, but the desire to disrupt my business activities and find an artificial opportunity to seize my property, acquired openly, in accordance with the law. Russian Federation on income from which billions of rubles of taxes have been paid ",- says Nagornaya.
She announced that she wanted to live in Nizhny Novgorod and promised to fulfill all business obligations. Nagornaya is ready to return to Russia if Sorokin is changed to house arrest.
« I want and hope to live in my native country and in my native Nizhniy Novgorod, and all the business obligations I have previously taken will be unswervingly fulfilled. I declare that if my husband is transferred under house arrest, despite the doctors' recommendations on the need to continue treatment, I will immediately return in order to support him and create the necessary conditions for his stay in our shared apartment, which I have already informed in writing. court on February 15, 2018. I declare that I am ready to give the investigation in writing an answer to any questions that may be transmitted to me through my lawyers. I would like to inform you that the day after my husband's arrest, I received threats against my family in Nizhny Novgorod, which I perceive as real "- wrote Mrs. Nagornaya.
Recall Oleg Sorokin was detained on December 19, 2017 on suspicion of taking a bribe on a large scale. On the same day, the Nizhegorodsky district court chose a measure of restraint for Sorokin in the form of arrest in a pre-trial detention center. Immediately after that, on December 23, the Sorokin family left Russia.
Note that famous journalist Andrey Vovk, the author of the telegram channel "Vovk" and now the editor of " Komsomolskaya Pravda in Nizhny Novgorod ", previously worked in the publication Elada Nagornaya. In an interview with newsnn editor-in-chief Nikita Ishmuratov he said that he left there because he began to see "Kink, monopoly of power." By the word monopoly Vovk means a certain political group that “grows and grows, and influences most of the decisions made: in the City Duma, Legislative Assembly, administration, government”.
But already in his telegram channel Vovk wrote a completely different information today.
“That the next stuffing began on Sorokin and his family. Moreover, the "best" information forces are involved - prepaid telegram channels and a number of media outlets with an "impeccable" reputation. It can be seen that the campaign is coming from a single center, but there is no new evidence in the Sorokin case. An attempt to make a fuss about nothing. Why is this being done? .. Everything is simple - to legitimize the result. The main goal, as I initially wrote, is not politics, but economics, that is, business. The opponents of the OVS (Oleg Valentinovich Sorokin) create a negative background in order to squeeze out his business under the guise of a simple raider takeover. And they leave him in jail, because they understand that they will not be able to do anything with him at large, ”- he writes.
Citizens defending the long-suffering Oleg Valentinovich, you have already decided, otherwise it turns out, as in that film: “He is, of course, to blame, but he ... is not to blame. Have pity on him, comrades judges: he is a very good man. " Only, where did he get, in that case, so many enemies?