Igor Pushkarev, mayor of Vladivostok: biography, personal life, criminal prosecution

It's not the first year that Primorye residents have been watching the city governors they choose to be in the center of criminal scandals. The Mayors of Vladivostok are not at all disdain to exceed their official powers and create "bureaucratic lawlessness" to please their own selfish interests. This applies to Viktor Cherepkov, and Yuri Kopylov, and Vladimir Nikolaev. The last mayor of Primorye Igor Pushkarev was no exception. Why do all mayors of the above-mentioned region ultimately choose the criminal path? Political analysts explain this by a conflict of interests between the mayor and the governor. The most acute issues were and remain the division of land and budgetary relations. Nevertheless, from a material point of view, the heads of the city of Vladivostok have always been all right. Still, in 2009, Pushkarev's financial profit by independent experts was estimated at 5.1 billion rubles. But after 6 years the official income of the official was only 1 158 340.57 rubles.

How did Igor Pushkarev come to power and became the head of a large region rich in minerals and fish? Let's consider this issue in more detail.

Biographical information

Igor Pushkarev is a native of the settlement of Novy Olov, which is located in the Chernyshevsky district of the Chita region. He was born on November 17, 1974. After receiving the certificate of maturity, the young man went to storm the university in Vladivostok. There he became a student at a local institute of international relations. Despite the fact that already from the first year Igor Pushkarev began to work actively in various commercial structures, this did not prevent him from obtaining a diploma in economics and international affairs. He even received the degree of candidate of legal sciences.

Work experience

But the material interest for a young man is still more important than scientific research. In the first half of the 90s Igor Pushkarev got a job as a sales manager for a large company called Busan, which was involved in the supply of instant noodles and cakes to Russia.

After some time there was a "mysterious" murder of the founder of the above structure. Having worked there a little more, the future mayor of Vladivostok creates his own structure.

Start of business

In 1997, Igor Pushkarev, whose biography is of interest to many, opens his own business. The young man creates the company "Park Group" and becomes its immediate supervisor. His offspring a few years later became a monopolist in the regional building materials market. Enterprises that produce cement, crushed stone and other materials for the erection of buildings and structures have become controlled by Park Group.

In 1998, Igor Sergeyevich Pushkarev "became at the helm" of the Pervomaisky Shiprepair Plant, and at the beginning of the zero ones, was headed by the largest enterprise "Spasskcement".

Political career

Success in entrepreneurship inspired the "economist-internationalist", he decided to try his hand at politics.

At first he became a parliamentarian in the Spassky City Duma. Then in 2001 Pushkarev was elected deputy and vice-speaker of the regional parliament. And then he was entrusted with another high and responsible post.

The mayor

In the spring of 2008, Igor Sergeevich Pushkarev became the head of the city of Vladivostok as a result of an active election campaign. The businessman got 57% of the votes, which meant that the second round would not be needed: despite the low voter turnout (23%), the victory was secured.

After Pushkarev took the mayor's chair, he said that he did not plan to make personnel changes in the bureaucracy.

"Four years later Vladivostok will turn into a garden city, this will be facilitated by the APEC summit," the mayor said proudly. In turn, the local electoral committee officially announced that the elections had been held: their winner will soon be forced to resign his deputy powers and officially appear before the citizens in a new status. And it happened.

"Successes" in the new post

What did Igor Pushkarev, whose family consists of a wife and three sons, do for Vladivostok? For the sake of justice, it should be noted that the businessman was generous with promises.

He did not hesitate to say that he would "give" the city fifty new kindergartens, which the residents of Vladivostok never saw. Also, the mayor assured citizens that modern APA hotels in the capital of Primorye will have modern "Hayat" hotels, which have not been completed to date. But Igor Pushkarev began to actively reform the system of urban transport. Vladivostok immediately reduced the number of trams, and in the center of the capital of Primorye, a bizarre "transport" aorta with one-way traffic was formed, which further complicated the movement through the streets. The new roadbed is another project of the mayor. And although it was still paving (with a violation of the deadlines), but the quality left much to be desired. What really hurt Igor Sergeyevich, so it's about his own selfish interests. The cement plants that they controlled during the preparation for the Asia-Pacific economic cooperation received enormous profits. It is not for nothing that Pushkarev occupies one of the honorable places on the Forbes lists. The wife of the mayor, by the way, is also quite a wealthy woman. She owns expensive real estate and a car.

Arrest

The Russian public was shocked when they learned that the mayor of Vladivostok, Igor Pushkaryov, was accused of exceeding official authority and commercial bribery. Journalists began to savor this topic in early summer.

However, one hundred percent certainty that the Mayor of Vladivostok Igor Pushkarev is involved in something illegal, the sharks did not have a pen. Therefore, to give any comments about the involvement of a businessman in crimes, only a few newspaper dared. Only by the evening of June 1 the federal media authoritatively reported that the investigators had arrested Igor Pushkarev. After the detectives searched his office, the house and analyzed the state of affairs in commercial companies owned by the relatives of the mayor, it was decided to elect a preventive measure against him in the form of detention. The perpetrator was immediately sent to Moscow.

The reason for detention

Why Pushkarev was in the center of a criminal scandal? The investigators managed to establish that, being in a responsible position, Igor Sergeevich created ideal conditions for tenders under his control through commercial tenders, namely: they became the only suppliers of construction materials for the MUPV "Vladivostok Roads".

And concrete and asphalt were sold by them at a higher price than competitors.

In addition, Pushkarev used the "administrative resource" to be able to influence other organizations involved in road works. In particular, Vodokanal and KMUP Primvodokanal could not start repair works, providing for the opening of the roadway, until their contractors signed documents on cooperation with the MUPV "Vladivostok Roads". The last was to asphalt the road after the completion of the repair work. Employees of the antimonopoly authority convicted the official of fraud with state orders, and Igor Pushkarev's arrest became a "matter of technology."