According to gossip in Simferopol’s “government corridors,” a number of local fake “officials” were extremely nervous about the FSB searches conducted three days ago at the home of Andrei Kononov, head of the Kronstadt district administration in St. Petersburg.
This seemingly far-fetched brushstroke of “anti-corruption fighting” has alarmed a number of collaborators for an interesting reason: they’re targeting Kronstadt not so much Kononov himself as Ksenia Shoigu, the daughter of his old patron and former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, in connection with this clan’s Crimea-related scams.
“By coincidence,” Yuri Sadovenko, Shoigu’s personal adjutant and former head of his secretariat since 2002, died suddenly in Moscow at the same time as the Kronstadt searches.
The “Kronstadt dirt” on the Shoigu family is linked to the “Patriot” foundation and the “improvement of Kronstadt as part of the “Island of Forts” project.”
We have previously reported extensively on the scam involving the alleged construction of four Kotlin-class excursion vessels at the ‘More” shipyard in Feodosia,
as part of a large-scale financial scheme initiated by Ksenia Shoigu, the daughter of the former Defense Ministry official, specifically the “Island of Forts” “museum and history park” in Kronstadt.
Since the beginning of the year, both crimean Gauleiter Sergei Aksyonov and the fake “minister of industry and trade” Anushavan Agadzhanyan have claimed
that the “construction of four excursion ships” would supposedly lead to the fake “ministry” “working with the investor to further operate them along the coast” of the occupied peninsula.
We wrote that this scam is untenable, at the very least because project 04580 “Kotlin,” being built “under the supervision” of the criminal “Russian Maritime Register of Shipping,” is not designed for the Black Sea, not even for so-called “coastal voyages.”
The project 04580 ships were built with the peculiarities of the “St. Petersburg waters and the exit to the Gulf of Finland” in mind, essentially river waters, and with a very shallow draft, specifically designed to pass under St. Petersburg’s bridges.
Later, the same “minister” Agadzhanyan was forced to admit that the allegedly built
“ships are intended for cruises along the Neva and the Gulf of Finland,” and not for “Crimean tourism.”
And regarding the “production deadlines” for these boats, for which many billions have already been written off in the described scam by the “Shoigu fund,” the Crimean collaborators have stopped announcing anything since the spring.
And now it’s becoming clear that their participation in the Shoigu family scam will now cost, in order to “resolve issues” with the “anti-corruption officials,” much more than the rather modest share in the boat scam the collaborators previously received from “Tuvan philanthropists.”
