December 9, 2010 By Grigory Pasko

Grigory Pasko: Secrecy – the Wisdom of Idiots

Yuri Chikhanchin120910.jpegRecently they showed on the Russian television how head of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring) Yuri Chikhanchin was accounting before the prime minister of Russia for work done. He, in particular, reported that in the course of joint work with law-enforcement organs the service had identified “systemic problems” in the activities of the mayoralty of Moscow, connected with the financing of contracts, in particular, in health care. And he clarified these «problems» on an example: “Contracts are entered into with intermediaries, and then the money is received from the intermediaries without intermediation into the state unitary enterprises (GUPs) of health care of Moscow. The kickback part goes away, and that’s it“. In so doing the finmonitorist noted that the sum comprises around 1.2 bln rubles. Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. In general, Chikhanchin’s subordinates were obligated to have noticed the disappearance of such a sum through a system long known to all before mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov became the former mayor. It’s strange that Mr. Putin didn’t pose a question to Chikhanchin: just where exactly were you with all your service earlier?