We’ve previously written numerous times about the endless “gas” corruption saga in occupied Sevastopol, the latest, “winter” round of which began with the “nationalization” of the supposedly “private” utility bill collection structure “Tsifrovyie Innovatsiyi” (“Digital Innovations”), which, along with the “state enterprise” “Sevastopolgaz,” was recently taken over by Alexander Podturkin.
This figure had previously surfaced in another pompously “nationalized” structure, namely, the “private” “Sevastopolgaz,” and then he surfaced in a “simultaneous exposure session” against the Sevastopol gauleiter’s “deputy”, Svetlana Pirogova, allegedly “without whose approval and decision nothing has happened in Sevastopol for a long time.”
This “Krasnoyarsk friend” of Mikhail Razvozhaev, who actively promoted himself through the “nationalization” of Sevastopolgaz, is now being linked by rival factions to the Russian “relocant oligarch” Mikhail Prokhorov.
And in response, Pirogova’s information service accuses rival clans of “ties to Ukrainian heritage,” in the form of the businessman and developer Pavel Lebedev and the Baziv family clan.
And now those same rival clans have launched another “round of revelations” regarding Podturkin, a rather “innovative” one at that, publishing “irrefutable evidence” of his “office romance” with his own “first deputy” and “chief engineer” at Sevastopolgaz, Irina Shevchenko.
At the same time, Podturkin and Shevchenko were accused of “possessing Ukrainian passports” and of having ties to former nominees and other figures in the “private” “Sevastopolgaz”, such as Igor Ivankov and Mikhail Sorokin.
It also “suddenly” emerged that Podturkin’s “other subordinates” at the current “state-owned” “Sevastopolgaz” have extremely “extensive experience.”
This includes “deputy general director for construction and technological connections” Yuri Ivanitsky, through whose company “Sitigasstroy” had previously embezzled nearly a billion rubles “for the additional gasification of the Baydarskaya Valley,” and “head of the enterprise’s security service” Alim Daurov, previously embroiled in a scam involving Podturkin’s rescue from “the loss of his driver’s license for drunk driving.”
All these “sudden revelations” indicate that the “rat race” between Sevastopol’s “power” factions for dwindling troughs will only gain momentum in 2026.
