Gataullin Vadim Valerievich biography family father. Kurultai deputy and communist Gataullin Vadim Valerievich

A communist billionaire from Miami "rules" raider operations, law enforcement officers and courts in his native Bashkiria

Sergey Borisov

Vadim Gataullin, ex-Deputy of the Parliament of the Republic of Bashkortostan (Kurultai) from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, deprived of his mandate after a scandal with overseas real estate discovered in his possession, continues to conduct active, and often criminal, activities in his historical homeland. There is only one goal - to “squeeze” business from competitors in favor of controlled companies. This is clearly evidenced by fragments of the correspondence between Gataullin's trusted representatives among themselves and personally with the "boss", which recently appeared in the public domain.

family nest

Vadim Gataullin is considered one of the richest people not only in Bashkiria, but throughout Russia. Filing his 2013 income tax return, he entered the top 50 rating the wealthiest Russian officials according to Forbes, having earned (officially) more than 227 million rubles. However, there is every reason to believe. that this "ceremonial" figure is underestimated several times. After all, having received (and, according to some reports, simply bought) the status “crust” of a Kurultai deputy, Gataullin did not even think about giving up material benefits associated with business, as required by law. He was and remains the main owner of the Bashkir Brick group of companies, which occupies a practical monopoly position in the building materials market of the republic. Under his full control is the investment and construction corporation "StroyFederation" - one of the key developers in Ufa. Gataullin also owns the Ecoline company (clothes production) and more than a dozen firms that manage office and retail real estate in Ufa.

It's funny that, personifying the so-called "class of exploiters", Gataullin made his way to the Kurultai in 2013 under the banner of ... the Communist Party. True, the stay of the brick "oligarch" on the sidelines of the legislature was short-lived. Already after his election, the prosecutor's office of the Republic of Bashkortostan initiated a criminal case on the sale of deputy mandates, video recordings of payments for this “goods” appeared on the Internet (the amount was only 5 million rubles), and Gataullin was called one of the main buyers in the press. For the time being, the newly-minted deputy managed to ignore these accusations, but then a new trouble arose. A luxurious 300-meter apartment in Miami (USA) was found in the American register of homeowners, designed personally by Gataullin Vadim Valerievich. In addition, information began to come in from various sources about the second, American, citizenship of the oligarch, which certainly did not fit in with the electoral legislation of the Russian Federation.

As a result, Vadim Gataullin was forced to surrender his deputy mandate in disgrace, and finally drove off to Miami for permanent residence. However, the entire business of the oligarch remained in Bashkiria, and it is Russian taxpayers who continue to replenish Gataullin's pockets.

How did it happen that this gentleman concentrated in his hands a considerable share of the assets of the whole republic, and, despite a fairly damaged reputation, continues to do business, not shunning, among other things, outright crime?

Here, obviously, Gatullin was helped by the eastern mentality of Bashkiria, where a lot is “tied” to clan and tribal ties.

Vadim Gatullin's father - Valery Gataullin - former Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic of Bashkortostan during the 20-year "reign" Murtaza Rakhimov. It is clear that assistance in career advancement to a “high-ranking son” served in those days for any business as a kind of guarantee against all sorts of troubles such as unplanned prosecutorial checks, etc. And from an early age in the family nest, which for the deputy prosecutor’s family was, without exaggeration, the whole republic , each offspring was prepared for a warm place. Gataullin Jr. got a chic piece in the form of production and trade in building materials, and later - both shopping and office centers, and promising building plots.

However, it is difficult to be an absolute monopolist in this industry: every now and then there are competitors who also want to stake out their island under the commercial sun. And in order to get rid of such competitors, and at the same time to select the vending sites of someone else's business, Gataullin put together a real raider brigade in Bashkiria. According to many Bashkir journalists, the nature of the activity of this brigade is more like an organized criminal group. And then we will talk in detail about the methods that she uses in her “work”.

The main members of the brigade are also far from random people in the "family nest". Thus, the legal support of Gataullin's raider operations is carried out by the head of the Barrister Judicial Agency LLC and the YUSB-Ufa Center collection agency, Aidar Mullanurov, the son of Azat Mullanurov, chairman of the Soviet District Court of Ufa. This side of the activities of Mullanurov Jr. is not particularly hidden: on the website of the Barrister agency, it is directly stated that its clients are companies controlled by Gataullin: Bashkir Brick, StroyFederation and Ecoline.

Deputy "patronage" and PR support for Gataullin's operations on the state (municipal) TV channel "Vsya Ufa" is provided by the current member of the Kurultai, and part-time journalist, Ildar Isangulov - the author of the "Inquiry" program. There was a funny episode in the history of Gataullin's relationship with Isangulov: when the "brick oligarch" was caught with American real estate, the stringer deputy even sent a request to the prosecutor's office demanding to check the legality of Gataullin's receiving a deputy mandate. However, by that time the latter himself had already decided to give up the ill-fated chair, and Isangulov's demarche thus turned into an exclusively public demonstration of his own "independence". After that, the author of the "Inquiry" calmly continued to concoct plots that discredit Gataullin's competitors.

Thus, a classic infrastructure of raider operations was formed in Gataullin's "family nest": a legal service with good "connections" in the courts and law enforcement agencies, a parliamentary lobby and controlled media for conducting PR campaigns, as well as power support represented by the security service of the Bashkirsky Group of Companies. brick".

In March 2015, electronic correspondence was made public, the participants of which are Vadim Gataullin himself, his press secretary Ruslan Rakhimov (on the staff of the Bashkir Brick Group of Companies), Ildar Isangulov and his assistant Marina Menshikova. It follows from the correspondence that this group of persons is engaged in unauthorized surveillance, collecting information on objectionable fellow citizens, releasing dubious television programs and organizing inspections using deputy powers. All these activities within the group are called “tea parties”.

"Tea parties" without ceremony

As follows from the materials of the correspondence, in November 2014, the trading business of the entrepreneur Airat Suleymanov, the owner of the Kolkhozny Market and several shopping centers, fell into the sphere of Gataullin's interests. First of all, after the businessman, the "outdoor" familiar to us from the detective series is installed. In one of the letters-reports, the director of the security service of the Bashkir Brick Group of Companies describes the movements of the object code-named "In Love" minute by minute. The geography and chronology of the object's movements leaves little doubt that Suleimanov was being monitored. The fact that such actions fall under Article 137 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal collection or dissemination of information about the private life of a person constituting his personal or family secret without his consent) does not bother the organizers of the "outdoor advertising".

At the same time, journalist-deputy Ildar Isangulov is busy collecting information that compromises Suleymanov - for the next "killer" story in the "Inquiry" program. At the same time, the script of the plot - attention! - submitted for approval to Gataullin's press secretary Ruslan Rakhimov. He generally approves that story, but at the same time makes the necessary adjustments to the work of the “independent journalist”:

"Powerful text.
On the fifth page, between the stand-up and the voiceover, the pronoun OH is twice, as a result, the understanding is lost - who exactly is Sarbaev or Suleymanov? It needs to be clarified."

Isangulov's creative diligence is generously paid. The addressee of the letter is Marina Menshikova (Khrustaleva) - an assistant to a deputy journalist, she is also the director and co-founder of the firm Soyuz-Pravo LLC, to whose accounts money is transferred for the devoted work of the author of Inquiry. As follows from the extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the legal address of the Soyuz-Pravo company is registered directly in the building of the Television Center of the Republic of Bashkortostan, and the main founder (60% of the authorized capital) of the LLC is Isangulova Natalya Valeryevna, the wife of the deputy.

Here is what one of the emails confirming the fact of billing "for a tea party" looks like:

In general, it seems that the people of Gataullin use deputy Isangulov, as they say, in the tail and in the mane. The status of the legislator allows Isangulov to send various kinds of deputy requests to the competent authorities, to which these same authorities are obliged to respond in writing no later than 15 days from the date of receipt. The deputy writes requests literally under dictation. For example, in one of the letters, Ruslan Rakhimov gives Isangulov a detailed “terms of reference” for writing a deputy request, and strictly indicates to a member of the Kurultai:

“Ildar, think about the wording of the questions, how you formulate them - show them before we send them out.”

This request is aimed at the "liquidation" of another competitor of Gataullin in the field of Ufa development - Rashid Bagautdinov - and the "specialists" of the raider brigade of the "brick oligarch" are intensively looking for legal gaps in all the competitor's projects, including those outside the republic:

In another letter, Rakhimov, without hesitation, suggests that Deputy Isangulov go on a business trip and at the same time "sponsor the trip." Judging by the four emoticons, Isangulov is sincerely happy about this turn of events:

Aidar Mullanurov also participates in the “tea parties” with his acquaintances and connections. Here he personally informs Gataullin about the reaction of law enforcement agencies to another request from deputy Isangulov:

"Good day. Isangulov received answers to inquiries. The prosecutor's office did everything it had to do. The cops will refuse to initiate a case if no one is connected. One of these days, Ildar will issue a power of attorney for us and we will be able to work more actively, otherwise now every call is only an acquaintance. Sincerely, Aidar Mullanurov.

Mullanurov also regularly sends reports to his boss in Miami on the consideration of current cases in the courts of Bashkiria. Of course, the high position of his father - the chairman of the Soviet District Court of Ufa Azat Zakievich Mullanurov - allows Mullanurov Jr. to receive all the information, as they say, first-hand. And, with a very high degree of probability, to influence the course of trials - after all, Azat Mullanurov, according to some reports, has high patrons in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

According to the "sketches" of Mullanurov, many deputy requests of Isangulov are compiled. In one letter to the deputy, the in-house lawyer lists the facts of Suleymanov's biography, carefully collected episodes from the past, which theoretically may be of interest to law enforcement officers. In another, he sets out the reasons why the court may invalidate the deal to acquire a plot in the center of Ufa by one of Gataullin's competitors, Vladimir Mokhov. Isangulov accepts all these drafts, expertly rewrites and sends them with his deputy signature to all the necessary authorities - from fire supervision (with a request to check compliance with the fire safety standards of the market owned by Suleymanov) to the prosecutor's office and President of Bashkiria Rustem Khamitov.

Surprisingly, it is a fact that the deputy of the Kurultai, who is called upon to protect the interests of his voters, is engaged in diligently “promoting” the interests of one “brick oligarch”, managing to use even the president of the republic!

It is even more surprising that the prosecutors and investigators of the Republic of Bashkortostan respond quickly to such requests: they conduct inspections, initiate criminal cases on facts 7-8 years ago ... Not otherwise, long-standing family ties work.

And if so, isn't it time for the federal law enforcement agencies to finally stir up this "family nest"? It's no secret that Moscow is now very closely watching such manifestations of "local customs."

The beginning of Vadim Gataullin's career is associated with receiving a blessing from his father, the Deputy Prosecutor of the Republic of Bashkortostan under Murtaza Rakhimov.

The blessing, as evil tongues say, was expressed in large amounts of money and enterprises of the republic, captured by raiders.

One of the objects obtained not entirely honestly is the former Fashion House of Ufa on Sverdlov Street. Now there is another market in its place. And the city was left without a Fashion House.

Another object captured by the raider is the factory named after. March 8. Now there is also another flea market. According to people in the know, the new owner continued for a long time, and even now continues to pay taxes as from a manufacturing enterprise, and not from a shopping complex. For almost two decades, the state has not received hundreds of millions of rubles in taxes for years.

This is how the capital of the Gataullin family is multiplied. Gataullin Jr. - begins to feel like an omnipotent tycoon, able to buy everyone and everything!

Further - more ... The tycoon begins to be interested in, besides money, entering into power structures. He is nominated for deputies from ... the Communist Party.
Not only does the person whose name appears on the Forbes list, as if in mockery of ordinary communists, uses their party as a springboard, but also grossly violates the nomination procedure on several points:
- Does not indicate in the declaration his property in the United States and accounts in American banks, as well as the fact that his family permanently resides in the United States.
- He does not go through the procedure of his approval as a candidate for deputies, at the republican conference of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which is a gross violation.
This information is circulating among the masses and so far no one has refuted it.

The unsinkability of Gataullin Jr. is associated primarily with his corrupt and criminal ties with the current mayor of Ufa, as well as the former "shadow fathers of the city."

Moscow has strong ties between the current mayor of Ufa and one of the oligarchs, Vadim Gataullin. And indeed, the best and tidbits of land in Ufa miraculously for nothing are given to Gataullin for construction.
They say that for the allocation of each site for the construction of such a house, you can get up to 30 million rubles in kickback.
In the photo, apparently, Vadim Gataullin is giving orders to the mayor before his next departure to the United States.

One of the most protected areas of Ufa - the Botanical Garden, which are the "lungs of the city", was also planned to be given for the construction of residential buildings. One of the main contenders for this "tidbit" was called Vadim Gataullin.

The cost of the houses built by Gataullin, thanks to the above schemes, is estimated by experts as very low. And they are sold very expensive. The difference in price is in the pocket of the oligarch.

The funny thing is that Vadim Gataullin himself and his family have long lived in Miami, USA. And the money earned in a dubious way in Russia is also kept in American banks, thereby strengthening its well-being.

In this house in Miami, on the ocean, there is an apartment of the Gataullins. As written in the sources, the apartment costs 3 million dollars.

Gataullins on vacation in Miami.

The next step, as they say in the environment of the oligarch, should be his nomination for the post of President of the Republic of Belarus. Neither more nor less...

However, the Bashkir public does not really like such a step of the oligarch. In the photograph, Left Front activists are protesting against the fact that a Communist MP is an actual resident of the United States.

And in these photographs, activists are conducting a sociological survey among residents of Ufa about whether a person living in the United States should be a deputy of the Kurultai, the State Assembly of the Republic of Bashkortostan. Thousands of people answered this question in the negative.

And in Sterlitamak, activists of the already federal party "People Against Corruption" held an action of throwing eggs at the most odious corrupt officials in sight. Most of the eggs fell on the portrait of Vadim Gataullin.

Thus, a very colorful and, presumably, curious figure for law enforcement agencies looms before us. However, so far, despite the facts lying on the surface and numerous signals from the public, neither the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Belarus, nor the Prosecutor's Office, nor the Investigative Committee have dealt with it.
We hope that this fact will not escape the sensitive attention of the Plenipotentiary Federal Representative for the Republic of Belarus A.V. Chechevatov. It is not for nothing that they say about him that he is a very principled person who has absolutely not stained himself with unscrupulous ties with local corrupt officials.

A scandal flares up related to the appearance on the Internet of correspondence between the oligarch Vadim Gataullin and the notorious deputy Kurultay Ildar Isangulov,.

Long arms of Vadim Gataullin

A communist billionaire from Miami "rules" raider operations, law enforcement officers and courts in his native Bashkiria.

Vadim Gataullin, ex-Deputy of the Parliament of the Republic of Bashkortostan (Kurultai) from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, deprived of his mandate after a scandal with overseas real estate discovered in his possession, continues to conduct active, and often criminal, activities in his historical homeland. There is only one goal - to “squeeze” business from competitors in favor of controlled companies. This is clearly evidenced by fragments of the correspondence between Gataullin's trusted persons among themselves and personally with the "boss", .

family nest

Vadim Gataullin is considered one of the richest people not only in Bashkiria, but throughout Russia. Having filed a declaration of income for 2013, he entered, having earned (officially) more than 227 million rubles. However, there is every reason to believe. that this "ceremonial" figure is underestimated several times. After all, having received (and, according to some reports, simply bought) the status “crust” of a Kurultai deputy, Gataullin did not even think about giving up material benefits associated with business, as required by law. He was and remains the main owner of the Bashkir Brick group of companies, which occupies a practical monopoly position in the building materials market of the republic. Under his full control is the investment and construction corporation "StroyFederation" - one of the key developers in Ufa.

Gataullin also owns the Ecoline company (clothes production) and more than a dozen firms that manage office and retail real estate in Ufa.

It's funny that, personifying the so-called "class of exploiters", Gataullin made his way to the Kurultai in 2013 under the banner of ... the Communist Party. True, the stay of the brick "oligarch" on the sidelines of the legislature was short-lived. Already after his election, the prosecutor's office of the Republic of Bashkortostan initiated a criminal case on the sale of deputy mandates, video recordings of payments for this “goods” appeared on the Internet (the amount was only 5 million rubles), and Gataullin was called one of the main buyers in the press. For the time being, the newly-minted deputy managed to ignore these accusations, but then a new trouble arose. In the American register of homeowners, a luxurious 300-meter apartment in Miami (USA) was found, designed personally by Gataullin Vadim Valerievich. In addition, information began to come in from various sources about the second, American, citizenship of the oligarch, which certainly did not fit in with the electoral legislation of the Russian Federation.

As a result, Vadim Gataullin was forced to surrender his deputy mandate in disgrace, and finally drove off to Miami for permanent residence. However, the entire business of the oligarch remained in Bashkiria, and it is Russian taxpayers who continue to replenish Gataullin's pockets.

How did it happen that this gentleman concentrated in his hands a considerable share of the assets of the whole republic, and, despite a fairly damaged reputation, continues to do business, not shunning, among other things, outright crime?

Here, obviously, Gatullin was helped by the eastern mentality of Bashkiria, where a lot is “tied” to clan and tribal ties.

Vadim Gatullin's father, Valery Gataullin, was the former Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic of Bashkortostan during the 20-year "reign" of Murtaza Rakhimov. It is clear that assistance in career advancement to a “high-ranking son” served in those days for any business as a kind of guarantee against all sorts of troubles such as unplanned prosecutorial checks, etc. And from an early age in the family nest, which for the deputy prosecutor’s family was, without exaggeration, the whole republic , each offspring was prepared for a warm place. Gataullin Jr. got a chic piece in the form of production and trade in building materials, and later - both shopping and office centers, and promising building plots.

However, it is difficult to be an absolute monopolist in this industry: every now and then there are competitors who also want to stake out their island under the commercial sun. And in order to get rid of such competitors, and at the same time to select the vending sites of someone else's business, Gataullin put together a real raider brigade in Bashkiria. According to many Bashkir journalists, the nature of the activity of this brigade is more like an organized criminal group. And then we will talk in detail about the methods that she uses in her “work”.

The main members of the brigade are also far from random people in the "family nest". Thus, the legal support of Gataullin's raider operations is carried out by the head of the Barrister Judicial Agency LLC and the YUSB-Ufa Center collection agency, Aidar Mullanurov, the son of Azat Mullanurov, chairman of the Soviet District Court of Ufa. This side of the activities of Mullanurov Jr. is not particularly hidden: on the website of the Barrister agency, it is directly stated that its clients are companies controlled by Gataullin: Bashkir Brick, StroyFederation and Ecoline.

Deputy “protection” and PR support for Gataullin’s operations on the state (municipal) TV channel “Vsya Ufa” is provided by the current member of the Kurultai, and part-time journalist, Ildar Isangulov, the author of the “Inquiry” program. There was a funny episode in the history of Gataullin's relationship with Isangulov: when the "brick oligarch" was caught with American real estate, the stringer deputy even sent a request to the prosecutor's office demanding to check the legality of Gataullin's receiving a deputy mandate. However, by that time the latter himself had already decided to give up the ill-fated chair, and Isangulov's demarche thus turned into an exclusively public demonstration of his own "independence". After that, the author of the "Inquiry" calmly continued to concoct plots that discredit Gataullin's competitors.

Thus, a classic infrastructure of raider operations was formed in Gataullin's "family nest": a legal service with good "connections" in the courts and law enforcement agencies, a parliamentary lobby and controlled media for conducting PR campaigns, as well as power support represented by the security service of the Bashkirsky Group of Companies. brick".

In March 2015, an electronic correspondence was made public, the participants of which are Vadim Gataullin himself, his press secretary Ruslan Rakhimov (on the staff of the Bashkir Brick Group), Ildar Isangulov and his assistant Marina Menshikova. It follows from the correspondence that this group of persons is engaged in unauthorized surveillance, collecting information on objectionable fellow citizens, releasing dubious television programs and organizing inspections using deputy powers. All these activities within the group are called “tea parties”.

"Tea parties" without ceremony

As follows from the materials of the correspondence, in November 2014, the trading business of the entrepreneur Airat Suleymanov, the owner of the Kolkhozny Market and several shopping centers, fell into the sphere of Gataullin's interests. First of all, after the businessman, the "outdoor" familiar to us from the detective series is installed. In one of the letters-reports, the director of the security service of the Bashkir Brick Group of Companies describes the movements of the object code-named "In Love" minute by minute. The geography and chronology of the object's movements leaves little doubt that Suleimanov was being monitored. The fact that such actions fall under Article 137 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal collection or dissemination of information about the private life of a person constituting his personal or family secret without his consent) does not bother the organizers of the "outdoor advertising".

At the same time, journalist-deputy Ildar Isangulov is busy collecting information that compromises Suleymanov - for another "killer" story in the "Inquiry" program. At the same time, the script of the plot - attention! - submitted for approval to Gataullin's press secretary Ruslan Rakhimov. He generally approves that story, but at the same time makes the necessary adjustments to the work of the “independent journalist”:

"Powerful text. On the fifth page, between the stand-up and the voice-over, the pronoun OH is twice, as a result, the understanding is lost - who exactly is Sarbaev or Suleymanov? It needs to be clarified."

Isangulov's creative diligence is generously paid. The addressee of the letter is Marina Menshikova (Khrustaleva) - an assistant to a deputy journalist, she is also the director and co-founder of the Soyuz-Pravo LLC company, to whose accounts money is transferred for the dedicated work of the author of Inquiry. As follows from the extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the legal address of the Soyuz-Pravo company is registered directly in the building of the Television Center of the Republic of Bashkortostan, and the main founder (60% of the authorized capital) of the LLC is Isangulova Natalya Valeryevna, the wife of the deputy.

Here is what one of the emails confirming the fact of billing "for a tea party" looks like:

(Click on image to enlarge)

In general, it seems that the people of Gataullin use deputy Isangulov, as they say, in the tail and in the mane. The status of the legislator allows Isangulov to send various kinds of deputy requests to the competent authorities, to which these same authorities are obliged to respond in writing no later than 15 days from the date of receipt. The deputy writes requests literally under dictation. For example, in one of the letters, Ruslan Rakhimov gives Isangulov a detailed “terms of reference” for writing a deputy request, and strictly indicates to a member of the Kurultai:

“Ildar, think about the wording of the questions, how you formulate them - show them before we send them out.”

This request is aimed at "liquidating" Gataullin's other competitor in the field of Ufa development - Rashid Bagautdinov - and the "specialists" of the raider brigade of the "brick oligarch" are intensively looking for legal gaps in all the competitor's projects, including those outside the republic:

(Click on image to enlarge)

In another letter, Rakhimov, without hesitation, suggests that Deputy Isangulov go on a business trip and at the same time "sponsor the trip." Judging by the four emoticons, Isangulov is sincerely happy about this turn of events:

(Click on image to enlarge)

Aidar Mullanurov also participates in the “tea parties” with his acquaintances and connections. Here he personally informs Gataullin about the reaction of law enforcement agencies to another request from deputy Isangulov:

"Good day. Isangulov received answers to inquiries. The prosecutor's office did everything it had to do. The cops will refuse to initiate a case if no one is connected. One of these days, Ildar will issue a power of attorney for us and we will be able to work more actively, otherwise now every call is only an acquaintance. Sincerely, Aidar Mullanurov.

Mullanurov also regularly sends reports to his boss in Miami on the consideration of current cases in the courts of Bashkiria. Of course, the high position of his father, the chairman of the Soviet District Court of Ufa, Azat Zakievich Mullanurov, allows Mullanurov Jr. to receive all the information, as they say, first-hand. And, with a very high degree of probability, to influence the course of trials - after all, Azat Mullanurov, according to some reports, has high patrons in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

According to the "sketches" of Mullanurov, many deputy requests of Isangulov are compiled. In one letter to the deputy, the in-house lawyer lists the facts of Suleymanov's biography, carefully collected episodes from the past, which theoretically may be of interest to law enforcement officers. In another, he sets out the reasons why the court may invalidate the deal to acquire a plot in the center of Ufa by one of Gataullin's competitors, Vladimir Mokhov. Isangulov accepts all these drafts, expertly rewrites and sends them with his deputy signature to all the necessary authorities - from fire supervision (with a request to check compliance with the fire safety standards of the market owned by Suleimanov) to the prosecutor's office and President of Bashkiria Rustem Khamitov.

Surprisingly, the fact is that the deputy of the Kurultai, who is called upon to protect the interests of his voters, is engaged in diligently “promoting” the interests of one “brick oligarch”, managing to use even the president of the republic!

It is even more surprising that the prosecutors and investigators of the Republic of Bashkortostan respond quickly to such requests: they conduct inspections, initiate criminal cases on facts 7-8 years ago ... Not otherwise, long-standing family ties work.

And if so, isn't it time for the federal law enforcement agencies to finally stir up this "family nest"? It's no secret that Moscow is now very closely watching such manifestations of "local customs."

Sergey Borisov, Novye Vedomosti

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The richest deputy, Vadim Gataullin, may soon leave the parliament of Bashkiria, opposition circles told The Moscow Post correspondent. The reason for the resignation of the parliamentarian may be the presence of his US citizenship.

Departure of the "communist"
As a rule, the richest deputies are members of United Russia. However, the parliament of Bashkiria (Kurultai) is an exception, since the wealthiest member of the Bashkir legislative assembly, Vadim Gataullin, is a member of the Communist Party faction.

However, "loyalty to communist ideals" does not prevent Mr. Gataullin from actively engaging in the business of producing bricks and "paying for" the election campaigns of his friendly candidates for deputies.

However, soon the owner of the Bashkir Brick group of companies, Vadim Gataullin, who is considered the main sponsor of the Bashkir branch of the Communist Party, may leave Kurultai. Moreover, he has already written an official statement on resignation addressed to the speaker of the Kurultai of Bashkiria, Konstantin Tolkachev. So the Communist Party in Bashkiria may be left without its "financial benefactor".

Did the parliamentarian “found” US citizenship?

According to preliminary information, Gataullin is leaving due to a scandal caused by publications about his American citizenship and real estate in Hollywood.

By the way, Mr. Gataullin does not hide the fact that the members of his family - his wife and three children - really live and study in the United States. They spend six months there, and he visits them.

Of course, that US citizenship, to put it mildly, is not combined with the "traditions of the Communist Party." It is even rumored that the federal leadership of the party has turned its attention to this circumstance. So in the end, Gataullin will have to say goodbye to his parliamentary status.

Deputy assets

In his declaration, Gataullin indicated an income of 225.9 million rubles, for which he was recognized as the wealthiest deputy of the Bashkir parliament.

By the way, the parliamentarian himself denied the fact of his American citizenship more than once, but nevertheless decided to leave the Kurultai. Obviously, "the truth pricks the eyes."

By the way, there is information on the Internet not only that Vadim Gataullin is a US citizen, but also that he has his own business in the States. After all, even among what belongs to him both in Bashkiria and in Russia as a whole (and this is only a superficial glance of 31 large firms - editor's note), there is Miami Investgroup LLC. She is involved in mediation in the purchase and sale of housing, which is apparently located in Miami.

Did Gataullin withdraw assets with the help of the mayor of Ufa?

According to experts, a businessman with assets in the US cannot be a Russian parliamentarian. Earlier, Kurultai deputy Isangulov had already asked the prosecutor's office of Bashkiria to deal with the "oligarch" Vadim Gataullin, who, according to Isangulov, illegally became a member of the Kurultai.

By the way, it seems that in addition to being “unpatriotic”, Mr. Gataullin can also be accused of banal corruption. For example, the Bashkir journalist Ravil Azirov wrote about how Vadim Gataullin, together with another deputy Alexander Bautsky, could be involved in the withdrawal of 100 million rubles from the Ufa budget under the auspices of Mayor Irek Yalalov.

This money was "taken away" with the help of real estate fraud (in particular, with the apartments of Ufa residents). It is known that Bashantek LLC and KTP Stroytekhmontazh LLC, controlled by the deputy, are involved in this scandal.

"billion dollar" business

Recall that back in November 2013, representatives of the Housing and Public Utilities Fund came to the republic with an inspection, who conducted it together with the employees of the FSB in Bashkiria.

They found that the program included either demolished or non-existent houses, for the resettlement of which more than 1 billion rubles were allocated from the budget. They settled houses in the elite part of the city - there are expensive lands, and people who really needed it still live in emergency housing, the story was publicized and the population was dissatisfied.

As a result, Irek Yalalov himself was under suspicion. Furthermore, .

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According to Kommersant, Vadim Gataullin, the wealthiest deputy, a member of the Communist Party faction, the main owner of the Bashkir Brick group of companies and a number of development assets, intends to leave the Kurultai parliament of Bashkiria. The deputy notified the leadership of the Kurultay that he was forced to resign his mandate ahead of schedule due to a discrediting campaign launched against him on the Internet. These reports, in particular, indicated that Mr. Gataullin had US citizenship and real estate in Hollywood. He himself neither confirmed nor denied this information. With the departure of the businessman, the Bashkir Communist Party may lose one of the most generous sponsors, Kommersant's sources say. The mandate of the communist may pass to Kharis Shagiev, an entrepreneur from the Ishimbay region, but the Communist Party of the Russian Federation may consider another candidate as well.

The fact that businessman Vadim Gataullin, one of the most generous sponsors of the elections to the Kurultai of Bashkiria in 2013, intends to give up his deputy mandate ahead of schedule, informed sources told Kommersant yesterday and confirmed those close to the businessman. The main owner of the Bashkir brick group and development assets, a member of the Communist Party faction, wrote an official statement on resignation addressed to the speaker of the Kurultai of Bashkiria, Konstantin Tolkachev. According to Kommersant, he explained his intentions by saying that he was the victim of a discrediting campaign launched against him on the Internet. And he explained that the information attack was detrimental to his business and could ruin relations with the city authorities of Ufa.

It should be noted that since the autumn of last year, information about Vadim Gataullin's alleged US citizenship and real estate in Hollywood has been published and actively discussed on various Internet sites. He himself did not publicly refute or confirm this information. In an interview with local media, he only admitted that his family members - his wife and three children - really live and study in the United States and spend six months there, and he visits them.

Vadim Gataullin is the son of the former First Deputy Prosecutor of Bashkiria Valery Gataullin. According to the results of the declaration campaign for 2013, he was recognized as the wealthiest deputy of the Bashkir parliament with an income of 225.9 million rubles. The Bashkir Brick Group is the largest manufacturer of this building material in Bashkiria. The deputy also owns the Stroyfederatsiya development company, which is actively building multi-storey buildings in Ufa.

Sources close to the deputy told Kommersant that at the end of last year, increased publications on the Internet prompted him to file a statement with the prosecutor's office, in which he asked to identify the authors and the customer of the publications. The application was forwarded to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic. Yesterday, the ministry told Kommersant that they were checking him.

However, publications not only did not stop: in early February, new details about the Hollywood life of a businessman were posted on the Internet. Mr. Gataullin also left the publication of this information without a public reaction.

Requests from citizens to check these data were received by the Kurultai commission on parliamentary ethics, commission chairman Mikhail Bugera told Kommersant. “But we did not consider them, since such appeals are not within the competence of the commission,” he added.

It was not possible to get a comment from Vadim Gataullin himself yesterday - his mobile phone was unavailable. The Stroyfederatsiya company reported that official comments would follow after consideration of the deputy's application for the Communist Party faction on February 26.

The Bashkir Republican Committee of the Communist Party explained that the mandate of a businessman who was elected on the party list, but was not a member of it, should go to the entrepreneur, director of the Southern branch of the Bashkir Heating Supply, Kharis Shagiev. But the republican committee bureau may also consider another candidate, the regional branch said.

In Kurultai, Mr. Gataullin does not remember much legislative activity. According to Ruzalia Khismatullina, head of the committee on budget, tax, investment policy and territorial development, to which Vadim Gataullin is a member, this deputy most often missed committee meetings and sessions under the pretext of business trips. At those meetings that he attended, he was active, but did not put forward any initiatives, Mrs. Khismatullina added.

The Communist Party faction does not intend to prevent the departure of Vadim Gataullin, said the head of the faction, Vadim Starov. “But we will lose a fairly competent specialist in the field of finance. His advice, comments and proposals for structuring the budget were quite significant,” Mr. Starov regrets.

Political scientist Abbas Gallyamov, who oversaw the election campaigns in the administration of the President of Bashkiria in 2011-2013, considers the businessman's decision a mistake, since "by doing so, he indirectly confirms the justice of the accusations." “Vadim Gataullin is one of the most ambitious young businessmen in Bashkiria. He went into politics purposefully, as he realized that he wanted to grow further. That he leaves her in this way is a mistake. Bashkir politics lacks such dynamic people,” the expert noted.

Bulat Bashirov, Natalia Pavlova