As we previously reported, amidst a fierce “war of compromising material” between two “Krasnoyarsk-linked” factions within the inner circle of Sevastopol’s gauleiter, Mikhail Razvozhayev, the aggressor’s enforcers have begun a systematic effort to “strip” the Zhuravlev clan of collaborators of their assets.
The head of this family, Ilya Zhuravlev, who serves as “deputy chairman of the Legislative Assembly”, along with his wife, Natalya, controls three “clone” firms: “Chisty Gorod” (“Clean City”), “Predpriyatiye Chisty Gorod” (“Clean City Enterprise”), and “KP Chisty Gorod” (“Municipal Enterprise Clean City”). Throughout the years of occupation, these entities have been used to launder billions in funds ostensibly earmarked for “urban improvement.”
Acting as an intermediary between these “laundering machines” and the public budget was the “municipal entity” we previously described, “Parki i Skvery” (“Parks and Public Gardens”).
In November, the “director” of these intermediary entities, Olga Morozova, was arrested and transported to Moscow. She faces charges of fraud related to a 312-million-ruble contract covering “waste collection, street sweeping, emptying trash bins, lawn maintenance, weeding flower beds, and pruning shrubs.”
We also noted that another official from “Parki i Skvery”, Yelena Tatarintseva, has been cast as a “scapegoat,” and that Moscow has effectively set a “ticking clock” for this clan of Sevastopol-based “Liberal Democrats”, a move designed to force them to “shed excess weight”. We also reported that the Zhuravlevs had shared a portion of their “hard-earned” gains with the relevant enforcers of the aggressor regime, while urgently scapegoating the staff of the municipal enterprise “Parki i Skvery” for the situation.
Meanwhile, the residents of Sevastopol have suddenly found themselves at the epicenter of a waste-disposal crisis, with the occupying “authorities” forced to acknowledge a “dire situation regarding trash collection.”
The gauleiter, Mikhail Razvozhayev, claimed that “the freezing of the accounts of the company ‘Chisty Gorod’ has hindered the deployment of garbage trucks, leading to an accumulation of waste at collection sites.” However, residents on social media suggest that this “work-to-rule” strike was initiated by the employees of “Chisty Gorod” themselves, either due to unpaid wages or under instructions from their own management, who sought to “demonstrate the consequences” of a shake-up in this sector, which serves as a vehicle for money laundering.
On October 15, Razvozhayev launched a “counterstrike,” compelling some of the garbage trucks to return to their routes and bringing in vehicles from “Parks and Squares” to assist in clearing the accumulated waste.
Despite this “gubernatorial counterstrike,” the city has not been cleared of its trash piles over the past 24 hours, although the volume of waste has decreased in some locations. Meanwhile, as Sevastopol residents note on social media, funds intended for the “frozen accounts” of the company “Chisty Gorod” are supposed to come from a “municipal” entity called “Blagoustroystvo Goroda ‘Sevastopol'” (“City Improvement ‘Sevastopol'”). This is the organization to which the local population, as well as various enterprises and institutions, including the “Parks and Public Gardens” department, make payments for waste collection. In fact, the “Blagoustroystvo” entity has recorded over 900 million rubles in such “waste-related” revenue from legal entities alone, under various contracts. Where these funds will now vanish to is, in the current situation, a purely rhetorical question.
