Lebedev “got into” the party purse?
Lebedev “got into” the party purse?
Ex-accountants of the LDPR accuse Igor Lebedev of embezzlement . Could money from the party treasury be used to buy expensive real estate in Spain?
A major scandal broke out in the LDPR party. A criminal case of fraud has been opened for the theft of 29 million rubles from the party reserve fund.
LDPR deputy and State Duma Deputy Speaker Igor Lebedev may be involved in the case. The defendants in the case, two former LDPR accountants, testified against him, claiming that they spent money on his orders.
It turned out that the case was opened two years ago, but this became known only now. At the same time, the Moscow police were surprisingly unable to understand the circumstances of the theft, so they transferred the materials to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
Why didn’t the metropolitan police cope? According to one version, Lebedev, who may be involved in this case, was trying to get away from the attack all this time. The State Duma deputy himself denies his guilt.
Family business under the Spanish sun?
Ill-wishers have long been spreading rumors that the Liberal Democratic Party is a purely commercial project to “invest” budget money and trade in mandates for generous donations to the party treasury. So far there has been no evidence of this.
Where could the money that disappeared from the party treasury go? As the media reported with reference to Russian anti-corruption activists, State Duma Deputy Speaker Lebedev is the owner of several hotels and apartments in Spain. In particular in Barcelona, Altea and Ibiza. Did the missing money go abroad?
According to the publication “Sakha.News“, in 2007, a property management company called Go Evolution International 21 SL was created in the Spanish province of Alicante. In 2012, its authorized capital could be about 2.8 million euros, and its assets were estimated at 4.5 million euros.
Space in the luxury Villa Gadea complex near the Mediterranean Sea was registered for this company. Apartments there cost about 400 thousand euros.
Who exactly owns Go Evolution International 21 SL is not known for certain. However, according to one version, until 2009, one of the managers of this company was the namesake of Igor Lebedev. And the surnames of almost all other company managers coincide with the surnames of people close to the vice-speaker.
In particular, as the same one writes, “Sakha.News“From April to June 2018, Galina Lebedeva was the sole director of Go Evolution International 21 SL. This is also the name of Igor Vladimirovich’s mother.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Igor Lebedev
From this woman, management of the company passed to certain Daniil Bondar and Sergei Chalyshev. The first allegedly became the director of the company, and the second his confidant.
It is interesting that a person with the first and last name Sergei Chalyshev has been heading the secretariat of Igor Lebedev in the State Duma apparatus since 2016. Is Chalyshev a “dummy” figure who “looks after” assets that may belong to Lebedev?
Later, Galina Lebedeva founded the company Spanish Destiny Invest SL. The latter has been managing the travel company Areir SA, registered in Barcelona, since 2017. The Hotel Azul in Barcelona is owned by this company.
After this, the namesake of Lebedev’s mother established another structure, Hotels Europe Daniella Invest SL, which owns another hotel – Azuline Hotel – Apartamento Rosamar on the island of Ibiza.
Soon the owner of the company unexpectedly changed.
If all this is confirmed, it turns out that Lebedev could have violated the Law “On the status of a member of the Federation Council and the status of a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation,” which prohibits State Duma deputies and their wives from owning so-called. foreign financial instruments, which includes the company Azuline Hotel – Apartamento Rosamar.
At one time, the authority of Igor Lebedev was seriously undermined by the scandal that broke out after his comment under a video on the Internet. In that recording, a little girl, born without arms, helped herself eat with her feet.
The vice-speaker then commented: “Why are such children allowed to be born, because this is torture, not life?! Modern medicine determines pathology in advance.” This was reported on the channel’s website “NTV“.
His words caused a real explosion of public indignation and provoked fierce criticism. Lebedev had to apologize, and publicly.
Lebedev demonstrated behavior that can be described as boorish before. For example, in 2017, he wished to “punch the face” of the Russian national team and Zenit football player Yuri Zhirkov after the Confederation Cup match lost in Mexico. Then the footballer himself turned it all into a joke. The publication wrote about this “Sight“.
However, if in that case the situation ended only in reputational losses, then in the case of the investigation into the theft of funds from the LDPR cash register, much more is at stake.
Another question arises: if Lebedev is involved in thefts, did his father, LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, know about it? If he knew, did he give the go-ahead and why? And if he didn’t know, then what happens in the party if his own son is suspected of embezzlement from the party treasury right under his father’s nose?