The wife of Oleg Sorokin, Elada Nagornaya, defended her husband on the pages of her own publication. And she reported about the persecution of the family of the detained deputy chairman of the AP Nizhny Novgorod region.

Elada Upland, wife of the arrested vice-mayor Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Sorokin and part-time one of the largest entrepreneurs in the region, spoke on the pages of her own publication "MK in Nizhny Novgorod" with accusations against the investigation. The woman reported on the persecution of her family in connection with the arrest of her husband, which, in her opinion, is also being conducted at the suggestion of the Investigative Committee of the ICR in the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

“I believe that my husband was accused in a biased way, and the purpose of imprisonment is to break his will and force him to admit non-existent guilt”, - Nagornaya says in her address.

According to her, the case against Sorokin began with searches in the apartment, which were attended by the head of the Investigative Committee of the ICR for the Nizhny Novgorod Region. After that, according to Nagornaya, information appeared that during the searches more than 1 billion rubles were found in cash, which is “deliberately false information.” ( in January, Ivan Yudintsev, Oleg Sorokin's PR adviser, had already refuted the initial report that 1.5 billion rubles were seized during searches in the house of his leader, - approx. ).

“The films that were being prepared for three months, discrediting me and my husband, appeared immediately after the arrest, which shows a high degree of coordination of the supposedly private initiative with law enforcement agencies”, - Nagorny portal newsnn.ru quotes the speech.

Elada Lvovna is sure that at the suggestion of the investigative committee, “false or inaccurate information is thrown in synchronously with the actions of the investigators” throughout the entire time from the initiation of the case.

According to her, it turns out that the investigation deliberately creates the impression that she and her children have left the country forever. ( This was during a meeting of the Nizhny Novgorod District Court on the extension of the measure of restraint to the Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region on February 15, investigator Yevgeny Lagunov informed the court that the wife of the suspect Elada Nagornaya and his son Nikita Sorokin were abroad and did not plan to return to Russia, - note .)

“This can give the impression that I have something to hide from, fueling rumors that I am like individual entrepreneur I can not fulfill my business obligations", - added the indignant woman in her message to the publication.

“Such actions lead to the obvious idea that the motive of the investigation is not an objective investigation in the materials of the criminal case, but the desire to disrupt my business activities and find an artificial opportunity to seize my property, acquired openly, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on income, with which paid billions of rubles in taxes, Nagornaya says.

She stated that she wanted to live in Nizhny Novgorod and promised to fulfill all business obligations. Nagornaya is ready to return to Russia if Sorokin's preventive measure is changed to house arrest.

« I want and hope to live in my native country and in my native Nizhny Novgorod, and all the business obligations I have previously assumed will be steadily fulfilled. I declare that if my husband is placed under house arrest, despite the recommendations of doctors about the need to continue treatment, I will immediately return in order to support him and create the necessary conditions for his stay in our common apartment, which I already wrote to the court on February 15, 2018. I declare that I am ready to give the investigation a written answer to any questions that may be submitted to me through my lawyers. I inform you that the day after my husband’s arrest, I received threats against my family in Nizhny Novgorod, which I perceive as real.”- wrote Mrs. Nagornaya.

Recall Oleg Sorokin was detained on December 19, 2017 on suspicion of taking a large bribe. On the same day, the Nizhny Novgorod District Court chose a preventive measure for Sorokin in the form of arrest in a pre-trial detention center. Immediately after that, on December 23, the Sorokin family left Russia.

Note that the well-known journalist Andrey Vovk, author of the telegram channel "Vovk" and now editor of "Komsomolskaya Pravda in Nizhny Novgorod", previously worked in the publication Elada Nagornoy. In an interview with newsnn editor-in-chief Nikita Ishmuratov he said that he left there because he began to see "inflection, monopoly of power." Under the word monopoly, Vovk means a certain political group, which "grows and grows, and affects most of the decisions made: in the City Duma, the Legislative Assembly, the administration, the government."

But already in his telegram channel, Vovk wrote completely different information today.

“That another stuffing began on Sorokin and his family. Moreover, the "best" information forces are involved - paid telegram channels and a number of media outlets with an "impeccable" reputation. It can be seen that the campaign comes from a single center, but there is no new invoice in the Sorokin case. Trying to make noise out of nothing. Why is this being done?.. Everything is simple - to legitimize the result. The main goal, as I originally wrote, is not politics, but the economy, that is, business. Opponents of the OVS (Oleg Valentinovich Sorokin) create a negative background in order to quietly squeeze out his business with a simple raider takeover. And they leave him in a pre-trial detention center, because they understand that they won’t be able to do anything with him at large, ” he writes.

Citizens defending the long-suffering Oleg Valentinovich, you have already decided, otherwise it turns out, as in that film: “He is, of course, to blame, but he ... is not to blame. Have pity on him, comrade judges: he is a very good man.” But where does he, in this case, have so many enemies?

In 2014 wife of the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod Elada Nagornaya presented the city with a five-meter sculpture of a steel deer. Citizens were skeptical about the donated animal, accusing the lady of pettiness, since it was officially known that in 2013 alone Nagornaya earned 1.7 billion rubles, having won the title of "the richest wife of a Russian official."

Of course, compared to some spouses of other mayors of the past, Elada Lvovna nervously smokes on the sidelines. She herself understands this, and therefore she shows incredible modesty: the townspeople learned about the wealth of their mayor’s family from the blog of State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov, who published the “income statement” submitted by the spouses to the local parliament.

The townspeople did not like such restraint. At the beginning of this year, they began collecting signatures for resignation. Mayor Oleg Sorokin. Now under the petition addressed to Vladimir Putin, more than 2.7 thousand signatures. Residents of the city suspect the mayor that construction companies affiliated with him are destroying the city center with almost 800 years of history. And somehow it turns out that not only monuments are collapsing, but also the fates of those who are trying to resist them.

The figure of Sorokin appeared on the political field in the early 2000s, when Nizhny became the center of the Volga federal district. “In order to transfer the city to the capital level, the authorities were interested in very serious participation, as they said in the embassy, ​​“businesses,” recalls political scientist Viktor Lysov. “On this wave, Stolitsa Nizhny has become one of the partners in various capital city projects, and developer Oleg Sorokin has become a potentially significant player in the political and economic market of the city.”

New times of the "old Nizhny"

"Old Nizhny" - the historical center with streets running away from the Kremlin, built up with merchant estates - has become a front line in the war between the townspeople and developers. And most of the construction companies that act on the townspeople, like a red rag on a bull, are controlled by the mayor, or rather, his wife: Nagornoy five years ago all her husband's assets went into trust.

Their number is disputed. For a year now, the list “110 firms of Oleg Sorokin” has been roaming the Web, posted by anonymous users, which, of course, should be treated with skepticism, but it does not interfere with checking. Nagornaya, according to this unconfirmed information, owns a third, the rest is supposedly the assets of business partners of the mayor and his wife. At least 300 names are mentioned: relatives, local parliamentarians and officials, but bosom partners - businessmen Maxim and Pavel Akatov - are immediately visible. Each is listed as a "co-founder" of these assets at least a dozen times. Another partner, Oleg Golovko (became the general director of Stolitsa Nizhny LLC after Sorokin) is a co-owner of at least a dozen companies.

An idea of ​​\u200b\u200bwhat kind of “benefits” a possible business brawler has is given by the income statement of the Sorokin family, which Dmitry Gudkov published on the Web at the end of last year.

Secret Declaration

At the end of 2013, Oleg Sorokin's income amounted to "only" 168 million rubles. But Elada Nagornaya brought 1 billion 734 million 441 thousand rubles to the family. 1.5 billion of this impressive amount is income from entrepreneurial activities. Judging by the declaration, Nagornaya is a co-founder of 21 companies. These data confirm the SPARK data.

Nagornaya owns a residential building, three apartments, seven garages, 15 land plots, 43 non-residential premises (shops, shopping malls). In the "transport" section - 5 "cars" ( on the roads of the lower spouse of the mayor, probably travels on Porsche CayenneS and BMW 750Li, and in its vicinity - by snowmobile and swamp). But the most deserving vehicles — the 2012 Bentley Continental GT and the Smart Fortwo — registered not in the traffic police of the Nizhny Novgorod region, but in the city of Cannes, in France. The same "port of registry" and two of the seven "auto" Sorokin -Porsche Cayenne 2006 and Mercedes-Benz E 250 CGI.

The Sorokins have two villas in Nice - 262 and 400 sq. meters, about which it is modestly said that they are only in use by the mayor. As did his wife. One could agree with this one hundred percent if, according to extracts from the real estate register of France (available to the editors), the 23-year-old son of the Sorokins, Nikita, did not act as the owner of the villas.

Confirmation of our conjectures is also in open sources. For example, here is information about the "ruler" VILLA LA CROIX DES GARDES (Сannes, Boulevard Des pins, 1) and HEUREUX EPIDAURE (Сannes, Boulevard Bel Horizon, 266).

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Translation: The company was founded on January 20, 2012, is listed in the real estate register under the number SIREN 539 357 871. The company specializes in the lease of land and other real estate. The CEO of HEUREUX EPIDAURE is Elada Nagornaya, born in 1973.

Registering real estate for a son is a completely logical scheme, given that the law does not oblige officials to declare the income and property of adult children. However, the Sorokin family does not hide in France. The name of the Nizhny Novgorod mayor is on the gate of VillalaCroixdesGardes.

House of the Sorokins. Pictures provided by employees of the Anti-Corruption Foundation

“We, ordinary people Nizhny Novgorod, perhaps, one can be proud of the fact that we have the richest wife of an official, such a “golden woman,” notes Alexei Yakimov, a member of the council of the NRO of the Just Russia party. - But it doesn't work. The declarations confirm that the welfare of the Sorokin family is growing at the same time as the budget is impoverishing.

Declaration of non-accountability

Since 2010, the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod has been elected from among the deputies of the City Duma - he is "candidate No. 1" from United Russia. According to federal law, parliamentarians are not required to report their income at all, however, the regional norm of Sorokin still obliges to do this. As for the spouse of the first person, her declaration can be presented to the public only with her consent. Elada Nagornaya did not give such consent.

Last year Nizhny Novgorod prosecutor Vladimir Nikonov spoke out against such a "freedom" - through his efforts a bill on the promulgation of declarations was submitted to the City Duma. The confrontation ended with the fact that the Duma's legal department concluded: Nikonov's initiative does not comply with federal legislation. The prosecutor's office lost the courts, and soon the fighter for "openness" lost his post.

Lifetime checks

Attempts to get an answer about material well-being from Oleg Sorokin himself three times ended in nothing. In 2004, his work as financial director of the Nizhny Novgorod Road Fund was checked by the Ministry of Finance. This story, perhaps, should have been forgotten if it had not surfaced in 2015 (but more on that later). In 2013, transactions with the city of companies that were suspected of being affiliated with the mayor's family were checked by the prosecutor's office of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

On November 14, a representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin announced the next inspection. In the department of the Investigative Committee for the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Colonel of Justice Yulia Sklyarova confirmed this information to Novaya Gazeta, noting that "no deadlines for verification have been set." The reason was two land deals, “concluded in 2011-2012 by the city administration with the companies Regioninvest52 and "Ingradstroy" affiliated with close relatives of Sorokin, ”said General Markin. For several months, investigators have been studying "the circumstances of the actual participation of the head of the city in the management of commercial organizations." In August 2012, the prosecutor of the Nizhny Novgorod region asked to check under what circumstances these companies received the plots.

In March 2013, they even opened a case under article 165 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Causing damage by deceit or breach of trust.” At the same time, the companies Stolitsa Nizhniy and Start-Stroy, owned by members of the mayor's family, were searched. It all ended in “puff”: first, the prosecutor Kozhevnikov was dismissed from his post and transferred to Lipetsk, and in February 2014 the case was closed due to the lack of corpus delicti.

People in Nizhny are used to checks on the mayor. “Yes, at first the people were excited - especially when Markin made a statement. But I have a feeling that in the investigating authorities there are daddies for everyone and everything in this country,” suggests political scientist Valentina Buzmakova. “From time to time they are taken out, and when the situation changes, they are put back.”

Without competitors

In addition to prosecutors, businessmen also got burned on the Sorokin family. Several sad stories taught them not to “get on the rampage”.

In 2010, Zhilstroy-NN won the tender for the development of the site, promising the city 14% of the apartments built. The company Nagornoy "Start-Stroy" applies to the local OFAS. Anti-monopolists find violations during the competition - Zhilstroy-NN flies out of the project. The site goes to "Start-Story", which is building four high-rise buildings. For some reason, the city did not receive apartments: at least in the public space, nothing is known about the opposite.

Two years later, Ingradstroy (the RF IC calls this company close to the mayor's family. - Ed.) receives 453 hectares for development in the Sovietsky district of the city on a leasehold basis. The results of the competition in the OFAS were challenged by two Moscow companies - ZhBK-Stroy LLC and Vektron CJSC. Entrepreneur Mansur Sadekov comes to the last company with an offer of a bribe of 30 million for the withdrawal of the appeal. They take him red-handed - Sadekov publicly declares: for a crime under Art. 204 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ( commercial bribery) went at the behest of Sorokin. As a result, the mayor was interrogated as a witness, and Sadekov was sent to "Sailor Silence", releasing only in October 2014 - after paying a fine of 307.2 million rubles. The ill-fated site remained with the Ingradstroy company, whose owners reached the Supreme Arbitration Court, which overturned the decision of the OFAS.

The last example is history CEO LLC "MFK-Invest" Alexander Bekusov, who entered the construction market with the intention of investing more than 2.5 billion in the economy of the Nizhny Novgorod region, and as a result lost 700 million and spent six months in a pre-trial detention center.

According to Bekusov, the problems began when MFK-Invest began building housing "at a price half that of competitors." In 2011, the entrepreneur was “hung up” with the debts of the company, in which at that time he had not worked for two years. Under this pretext, searches were carried out at MFK-Invest LLC: all accounts were arrested, and cash was seized. Construction is up.

For six months in the pre-trial detention center, 125 cases were opened against Bekusov on the statements of equity holders and contractors, who, according to the entrepreneur, "were called to the police to file statements." Saved by the economic amnesty announced in July 2013. Her condition is compensation for losses to the victims: Bekusov paid 140 million. Criminal cases were terminated, and, having been released, the entrepreneur distributed debts.

“In Nizhny there is a monopoly of large developers, so the emergence of new companies is not preferable,” Bekusov concludes.

Without the "old bottom"

Unlike business, city defenders do not give up so easily. But they have to confront both the authorities and developers. “Since 2010, the destruction of the historical center has gone exponentially,” notes Alexei Yakimov, a member of the council of the NRO of the Just Russia party. “In 2013, city defenders lay down under a bulldozer almost every day, first on one street, then on the other.” A vivid example of such resistance is the struggle for a quarter bounded by Gorky, Novaya and Ilyinskaya streets.

In 2006, the investment council of the city decided to build residential buildings on the territory of a triangle built up with old merchant estates. The place is unique - in the house number 74 on the street. Gorky, for example, Alexey Peshkov lived in 1879. Initially, the whole block fell under protection, but gradually the protection zone "shrank" to one house.

The project was implemented within the framework of the national program “Affordable and comfortable housing for the citizens of Russia”. The scheme turned out to be anecdotal: first, the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region spent 370 million budget dollars on the resettlement of residential buildings and the demolition of dilapidated housing, and then officials sold the cleared area under the hammer to Regioninvest52 LLC for only 84.3 million rubles.

In 2012, the “national program” aroused the sincere interest of the prosecutor’s office: “supervisors” not only pointed out that such a “price” “does not correlate” with the 370 million budget costs, but also directly stated: the cost of a site located in the most historical center, they calculated, "based on the average market value of economy class new buildings at the zero stage of construction." True, this check also bypassed the participants in the scheme - no cases were brought against officials.

Now in the "triangle" there is a cleansing of historical buildings. In January, a bulldozer destroyed the L.A. House. Davydova-Pecherkina.

Belvedere vs Bulldozer

A small house with a carved gazebo at 46a Novaya Street is desperately not a symbol of struggle. The estate of the merchants Burmistrovs, built in 1890, is notable for its hexagonal turret behind a carved pediment and its extraordinary fate. He owes it to his last owner, pensioner Lidia Aleksandrovna Davydova-Pecherkina, who in the 1970s exchanged a well-appointed “odnushka” apartment for two rooms in the same estate with an attic.

Having become the owner of the whole house in the 1990s, Lidia Alexandrovna turned the dilapidated housing into a city landmark. In 2000, the house was given the status of a newly identified object. cultural heritage, which, however, was selected four years later. The house survived its defender for a year and a half: Lidia Alexandrovna died on August 11, 2013, the estate with a carved belvedere - on January 12, 2015. After the death of a pensioner, her distant relatives sold the building to Regioninvest52 LLC, and the developer demolished it.

Moreover, on the very day when the activists of the organization "Green World" handed over to officials from the State Protection Department an application for entering the house into the "protective register". The officials did exactly the same with the house at 126 Ilyinskaya Street. On March 21, the results of the examination were sent to the department, the next day it was demolished by the same "Regioninvest52".

One address, one name, one offshore

The Investigative Committee calls Regioninvest52 LLC a company affiliated with the mayor. The first person of the city denies these connections, although there are good reasons for such a conclusion.

Legal address "Regioninvest52" - st. Maksim Gorkogo, 117. According to SPARK, at least three companies of Elada Nagornaya are registered at this address: Indor-NN LLC (60% share), Stroyindustriya LLC (60% share), Stroyinvest-52 LLC (share 60%).

There are connections at the personal level as well. According to SPARK, the post of director of Regioninvest52 LLC is occupied by Ilya Alexandrovich Balmusov. And here is an interesting coincidence: in 2008, it was he who was the director of Horeka-NN LLC, at a time when Oleg Sorokin, Elada Nagornaya, Oleg Golovko and Pavel Akatov were listed as its co-owners (remember these names?). By the way, Nagornaya herself was Balmusov's predecessor as the manager of Horeka-NN LLC - she was the director of the office in 2006.

It is also interesting that Horeka-NN LLC, which connects the director of Regioninvest52 LLC, the mayor, his wife and their main business partners, is registered at the address characteristic of companies from the “110 list”: st. Belinsky, 61. Together with Horeka-NN, six active companies Nagornoy: Plaza-Holding LLC (100%), STN-REKLAMA LLC, Bereg LLC (50%), Investproekt (60%), Sorenta LLC (75%) and Sistema LLC (75%).

Another rather noticeable connection can be found in the decision to initiate a criminal case, dated March 26, 2013 (available to the editors). The document states: " Cash, made as a deposit, Regioninvest52 LLC received on December 7, 2011 from Start-Stroy LLC, with which a loan agreement for 84.5 million rubles was concluded under the personal guarantee of one of the Start-Stroy founders - Golovko O.V. ."

The circulation of connections ends if you find out who owns Regioninvest52 LLC. According to SPARK, the Cypriot offshore WAMILINVESTMENTSLIMITED is listed as the owner of the company. Traces from WAMIL lead to those distant times when the future mayor of Nizhny Novgorod was responsible for the finances of the regional Dorfond. Through those who now manage WAMIL (and, accordingly, Regioninvest52 LLC), budgetary millions went abroad.

The Control and Audit Department of the Ministry of Finance came to this conclusion in 2004 - following an audit of the Far Eastern Federal District, a criminal case was opened against the future mayor "on the fact of embezzlement of budget funds in the amount of more than 500 million rubles and subsequent legalization." The Far Eastern Federal District processed the purchases of fuel and materials through dozens of “one-day firms”, as a result, the “total turnover of dubious financial transactions” exceeded 5 billion rubles. Money was “laundered” through Cypriot offshore companies that are directly related to the Cypriot owners of Regioninvest52 LLC.

The real estate register of Cyprus states: the director of the company WAMILINVESTMENTSLIMITED is a certain NFINB MRLBYVBU, translated from Greek into Russian - Dina Blaivas. A similar name appears in a letter addressed to the Deputy Plenipotentiary of the Volga Federal District Alexei Sukhov in August 2012 by the Nizhny Novgorod prosecutor Kozhevnikov (available to the editors):

“In the Federal Tax Service of Russia, documents for registration were submitted by the director of WAMILINVESTMENTSLIMITED Blavais D.A. (it can be assumed that the surname is obviously incorrect. - Ed . ), the location of which was not established during the consideration of the appeal.

The whereabouts of a native of Nizhny Novgorod, born in 1959, “Novaya” was helped to determine the Facebook account of the director of WAMIL. This is Cyprus, its capital Nicosia. According to official biography, Doctor of Medicine, Director of the Center for Speleotherapy in Nicosia, graduated from the Gorky Medical Institute and worked in Nizhny Novgorod as a cardiologist. In 1992 she moved to Cyprus.

Photos of the Blaivas from open sources

Dina and her husband Mikhail Blaivas are managers of a number of offshore companies that appear in the materials of the criminal case on embezzlement from the Road Fund.

In 2013, the Nizhny Novgorod publication Pravda PFO points out, citing a source in law enforcement agencies: in 2003, during searches, documents were found proving that Dina Blaivas “registered a number of companies for Sorokin and Golovko through her office in Nicosia.”

WAMILINVESTMENTSLIMITED shares its legal address with several other companies. Neighbors - SOMONAENTERPRISESLIMITED and CRISANTOHOLDINGLIMITED. The secretary of all three firms is ΜΑΡΙΝΑ ΦΩΤΙΟΥ. And among the “friends” on Facebook, Dina Blaivas has a certain Marina Fotiou. A Muscovite lives in Cyprus and since April 2010 has been working as an administrator at the law office of Elena Constantinou & Co. The office of the company, which since 1994 has been engaged in "registration and maintenance international companies”, located at the same address as WAMIL, SOMONA and CRISANTO.

In the 2002 criminal case, there were about a dozen offshore companies through which funds from the Far Eastern Federal District flowed. Among them are Cypriot residents CHIBO WORLDWIDE LIMITED, RISKRUT ENTERPRISES LIMITED and LECON NOMINEES LIMITED. The director of the first is Nina Blaivas, the secretary is Elena Konstantinova. In the second and third, Konstantinova is again listed as secretary. Closes the circle offshore ALOA - VERA LIMITED, whose directors are Nina and Mikhail Blaivas.

Strategic loans, general managers, one address and offshore acquaintances - there is reason to think, you must agree. However, the Sorokin family still claims: there is no connection here.

But "Greece has everything." Or in Cannes.

P. S. Elada Nagornaya did not respond to a request " Novaya Gazeta", and the press service of Nizhny Novgorod Mayor Oleg Sorokin said: "The head of the city has repeatedly stated that he does not comment on the activities of law enforcement agencies, because everyone should do their job." However, we asked him not about this, but about the "family" business.

This week, an honorary consulate of Hungary opened in Nizhny Novgorod. Elada Nagornaya, a top manager of the Stolitsa Nizhny group of companies, and also the wife of the head of the city, Oleg Sorokin, became an honorary consul.

The opening ceremony was attended by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Hungary to Russian Federation Ystvan Iydjarto, Governor Valery Shantsev, Mayor Oleg Sorokin and Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Sergei Malov.

Valery Pavlinovich, upon arrival at the event, immediately presented Elada Lvovna with a luxurious bouquet of flowers and wished her success.

We will promote this direction, as we want Nizhny Novgorod and the Nizhny Novgorod region to be known all over the world. This will contribute to the development of business ties, as well as ties in the humanitarian sectors, - said the governor, who was in a great mood.

By the way, soon a consulate of Sweden will be opened in Nizhny Novgorod, it will be the ninth such institution in the city. According to the head of the region, a consular patent has already been signed on the appointment of Bo Inge Andersson, General Director of GAZ Group, to the post of Honorary Consul of Sweden in Nizhny Novgorod.

fashion houses

and visa-free regime

Hungarian Ambassador Ystvan Iydjarto expressed his joy at the opening of the consulate.

My colleagues and I are very pleased that Elada Nagornaya is helping us restore very important connections that have been absent for too long. Now it is very important to establish bilateral cultural relations, we support this process very much. Establishing tourism links is important.

Sergey Malov, representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry in the Nizhny Novgorod region, drew the attention of the public that Elada Lvovna the only woman in such a responsible position.

Elada! You will definitely become the consul of goodness and beauty, - said Sergey Geraldovich, referring to the hero of the occasion. After that, he rejoiced for the Nizhny Novgorod fashionistas and fashionistas:

Now fashion houses with new European trends will appear in our city. Good luck with this.

In conclusion of his emotional speech, Mr. Malov confirmed that a direct flight from Nizhny Novgorod to Budapest would soon appear.

In connection with the opening of the consulate, it will be easier to obtain a visa to this country, and in the future everything will be reduced to a visa-free regime.

Elada Lvovna Nagornaya met the guests
at the Honorary Consulate of Hungary at all times
in demand among men the image of a Barbie doll

Rhinestones on the first lady's heels spoke
almost more about his mistress,
than the official speeches of the guests

“All so airy…”

Elada Lvovna herself, as befits socialite, more silent, charmingly smiling at her guests. The guests, of course, noticed how carefully the toilet of the first lady of the Lower was thought out.

The pink dress that I am wearing now is from the Valentino collection, - Elada Lvovna told reporters of the City and Citizens. - Shoes with rhinestones on heels - from the Prada collection.

The image was diluted with beautiful accessories in the form of small earrings with diamonds and a watch to match the color of her dress.


When the conversations of men became very boring, the wife of Oleg Sorokin with barely
with noticeable longing she examined expensive, but probably disgusting gold jewelry

Bonuses and preferences

IN Lately the institution of the honorary consulate is becoming more and more in demand. At the same time, both the Russian Federation appoints its honorary consuls in foreign states and hosts them. According to Chapter III The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963 honorary consul has a number of bonuses and preferences. Here are just a few of them:

Russia, as the host state, is obliged to provide the honorary consul with such protection as may be required in connection with his official position.

The Honorary Consul enjoys immunity from the criminal, civil and administrative jurisdiction of the Russian Federation in regard to his official activities.

An honorary consul may not be subjected to detention or arrest except in the case of prosecution for a serious crime or the execution of a court sentence that has entered into legal force.

The honorary consul is exempt from all taxes, dues and duties on remuneration and wages, which he receives from the sending state for the performance of consular functions.

Since the vehicle of an honorary consul, in accordance with international practice, is considered to be the territory of a consular office, it is possible to mount the flag of the sending state on it, and the use of special registration numbers (red color, series 900, special letter series) is also provided for.

Olga BEHTOLD,
Ilya MOROZOV

"Family"

"News"

Oleg Sorokin recalled previous cases

The richest wife of an official in Russia came out of the shadows

List of the richest wives of officials with an income of almost 1.5 billion rubles. for 2012, the spouse of the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, Elada Nagornaya, unexpectedly headed. She pushed Olga, the wife of the first deputy chairman of the government, Igor Shuvalov, after her declaration for 2012 was made public. Her for a long time refused to publish the Nizhny Novgorod mayor.

The wife of Nizhny Novgorod Mayor Oleg Sorokin, Elada Nagornaya, earned 1.475 billion rubles in 2012, follows from a copy of her declaration of income and property, which fell into open access. The wife of Igor Shuvalov, Olga, who was still considered the richest wife of an official, earned 222 million rubles in 2012.

Sorokin did not publish data on his wife's income along with his declaration for 2012 last spring. When the city prosecutor's office demanded that this information be made public, he said that he already felt disadvantaged, because the law forbade him to have foreign accounts.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_34278.htm

Money in someone else's pocket

The wife of the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, Oleg Sorokin, Elada Nagornaya, earned 1.475 billion rubles in 2012, follows from a copy of her income and property declaration that has become publicly available. The wife of Igor Shuvalov, Olga, who was still considered the richest wife of an official, earned “only” 222 million rubles in 2012.
link; http://mfd.ru/news/view/?id=1885008

"French voyage" friends "Pavlinich"?

“They are not owned,” emphasizes the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, “but only in use. I wonder whose are they? Maybe the property in France belongs to his wife, whose income Sorokin hides in his declaration? A volunteer who wished to remain anonymous helped us find the answer to these questions. The necessary records were found in the registers of the Cote d'Azur of France, ”Gudkov notes. By the way, in the documents, Elada Nagornaya is indeed considered the owner of a number of mansions.
link: http://www.moscow-post.com/politics/frantsuzskij_vojazh_druzej_pavlinycha12106/

The wife of the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod Elada Nagornaya turned out to be the richest wife of an official in Russia

According to Dmitry Gudkov, at her main place of work (as director of R and M LLC), Nagornaya earned 2.899 million rubles, bank deposits brought her another 13.192 million rubles, securities and shares in commercial organizations- 102.03 million rubles. Sorokin's wife also received 3.15 million rubles from the sale of the apartment and 691,450 rubles for interest on loans issued. The main amount of income came from "entrepreneurial activities."
link; http://www.1tvnet.ru/content/show/supruga-mera-nijnego-novgoroda-elada-nagornaya-okazalas-samoi-bogatoi-jenoi-chinovnika-v-rossii_25313.html

An obscene inscription against Sorokin and Nagornaya appeared in the center of Nizhny

The act of obscene vandalism right in the center of the city immediately caused a wide discussion on the Internet. Users have no doubt that the inscription is dedicated to the head of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Sorokin and his wife Elada Nagornaya.

Recall that on last week the head of the city confirmed the information that appeared on the Internet that his wife Elada Nagornaya earned almost one and a half billion rubles in 2012. This topic was discussed by Sorokin at a meeting with experts, after which the head of Nizhny Novgorod gave an exclusive commentary to Gorky TV about his wife's income.
link; http://gorky.tv/posts/2424-netsenzurnaya-nadpis-protiv-sorokina-i-nagornoy-poyavilas-v-tsentre-nizhnego.html

The wife of the head of Nizhny Novgorod Elada Nagornaya did not allow to publish data on her income in 2012

The wife of the head of Nizhny Novgorod, Elada Nagornaya, did not allow the publication of data on her income in 2012. This is reported by Nizhny Novgorod news agencies in connection with the appearance on the website of the City Duma of information about the income of her husband, Oleg Sorokin. He owns two dachas with an area of ​​1,308 square meters. meters and 46.6 sq. meters. He also owns 17 objects of other real estate with total area 26 thousand 554.8 sq. meters and two real estate objects 929.5 linear meters and 2,031.5 linear meters.
link; http://1dzer.ru/articles/339- supruga-glavy-nizhnego-novgoroda-elada-nagornaya-ne- razreshila-publikovat-dannye-o-svoih-dohodah-v-2012-godu

Mayor of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Sorokin hit the law with villas in France

State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov's LiveJournal has published yet another revealing information about Oleg Sorokin, the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, the fifth largest city in Russia. Namely - information about what the Sorokin family owns. And no longer in the open home country, and abroad, on Cote d'Azur France. A few months ago, Gudkov wrote about Mr. Sorokin's large-scale business in the city he controls and how he crushed everything under him, citing a lot of evidence. The MP made relevant statements to law enforcement, but things are still there.
link: http://www.mk.ru/politics/ article/2013/07/23/888108-mer-nizhnego-novgoroda-oleg-sorokin-udaril-po-zakonu-villami-vo-frantsii.html

The prosecutor's office is trying to oblige the wife of Oleg Sorokin to publish their income

For example, the Minister of Investment Policy of the region Yuri Groshev earned in 2012 13 times more than the governor Valery Shantsev - 73 million 999 031 rubles! And from the amount declared by the head of the city Oleg Sorokin, many were dizzy - 153 million 696 141 rubles. Add to this five land plots, three apartments, two summer cottages, as well as 17 objects of "other real estate", 6 luxury cars and much more valuable. But the income of his wife Elada Nagornaya and two common children were never published on the website of the Nizhny Novgorod administration. As it became known to Komsomolskaya Pravda, the wife of the head of Nizhny Novgorod "did not give her consent to this" ...
link:http://www.kp.ru/daily/26084/2987568/

What bonuses will Elada Nagornaya receive as an honorary consul?

This week, an honorary consulate of Hungary opened in Nizhny Novgorod. Elada Nagornaya, a top manager of the Stolitsa Nizhny group of companies, and also the wife of Oleg Sorokin, the mayor of the city, became the honorary consul. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Sergei Malov.
link: http://gorod-gorozane. livejournal.com/1084.html

"Hungary is counting on serious and long-term cooperation with the Nizhny Novgorod region", - Elada Nagornaya

In 2010 alone, the trade turnover between Hungary and the Nizhny Novgorod region amounted to 31.718 million dollars, and in relation to 2008, exports to Hungary doubled and amounted to 4.4 million dollars. Despite the fact that the numbers are growing every year, this clearly not enough. Hungarian enterprises are poorly represented in the regional market, although local technologies are now in demand in a variety of areas. The Hungarians are already ready to cooperate in the field of healthcare, public utilities and culture. Now, on the initiative of the Hungarian side, an Honorary Consulate has been opened in Nizhny Novgorod. This, of course, is a sign of great interest in the Nizhny Novgorod region, evidence that Hungary is counting on serious long-term cooperation with the region.
link: http://news.mail.ru/inregions/volgaregion/52/politics/9091594/

Residents of Nizhny Novgorod dedicated graffiti to the wife of the mayor who earned 1.5 billion

Residents of Nizhny Novgorod dedicated the inscription to Elada Nagornaya, the wife of the mayor of the city Oleg Sorokin, who officially earned almost 1.5 billion rubles in 2012. According to GorkyTV, an inscription appeared on a house at 1 Minin Street and read: “Dear Oleg and Elada, is 1.5 billion sleep in the city more than d*** me?” After some time, the inscription was painted over.
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Nagornaya is the daughter of the director of the Central Department Store, according to official information. Her mother, Elena Nagornaya- CEO of a shopping center company"Floors". Elada Uplandmarried Sorokin in 1990, right after graduation. In the same year, Nagornaya entered the Economics Department of the Moscow Commercial Institute. Now it is called Russian economic university them. G. V. Plekhanov.

The site "Encyclopedia of Nizhny Novgorod" reports,that the mountain began labor activity in 1990 as an accountantInformation and Computing Center of the Trade Administration of the Gorky Executive Committee. Thus, she combined her studies in Moscow with work in the region.

In 1996, according to the official biography, Sorokin and Nagornaya created commercial enterprise Broster. There is no data on such a company in the Spark Interfax service. In 1998, Sorokin became the director of a large plant"Start". ABOUT n was listed on the board of directors at the time of inclusion as an individual entrepreneur. Mediazona writes that the future deputy chairman of the Legislative Assembly bought several stalls in Nizhny Novgorod, where he sold cigarettes. Prior to that, he worked in a cooperative, whose name was not disclosed in Sorokin's official biography.

From 1999 to 2001, Sorokin first served as deputy director for finance of the State Institution "Road Fund of the Nizhny Novgorod Region", and then went on to increase. According to The Moscow Post, Sorokin received the position of chief financial officer after his supervisor Victor Erikov drowned while on vacation. In 2000, first the deputy director of the Dorfond died in an accident Nikolai Kuznetsov, and then the head of the organization - Alexander Glazov. At that time, Nagornaya opened a representative office of the fashion house Valentina Yudashkina.

In 2003, Sorokin founded Stolitsa Nizhny, the largest construction company in the region. After the bankruptcy of "Start", the shopping center "Etazhi" appeared on the territory of the plant. And in the workshops of the enterprise there were trade hangars of Sportmaster and M-Video. The developer of "Etazhy" is "Capital Nizhny".

In the same year Sorokin's car was shot by unknown people, the businessman was injured. Brothers found guilty of plotting assassination Dikinykh - Michael And Alexandra. The first is a former deputy chairman of the Legislative Assembly, the second is a police lieutenant colonel.

According to Sorokin and the investigation, Mikhail Dikin decided to appropriate the share of the future deputy chairman of the Legislative Assembly in the assets of Start. The victim stated that Deakin became a co-owner of the assets through the board of directors of Ellips-Bank Mikhail Gurevich. In 2006, Gurevich said that he had never been the owner of Start, and therefore did not resell Dikin's assets.

Dikin's lawyers presented the statutes of Start. According to the data in them, in the event of Sorokin's death, his share would have passed to the heirs, regardless of the consent of the Start co-owners. Sorokin replied that he did not have a will at the time of the assassination, so Deakin would have been appointed to manage the assets.

In 2004, the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Nizhny Novgorod Region opened a case on embezzlement of Dorfond funds. After checking the Ministry of Finance, overpriced purchases were discovered. A case was opened against Sorokin “on the fact of embezzlement of budget funds in the amount of more than 500 million rubles with subsequent legalization,” media reports. The outcome of the case is unknown.

Nagornaya and Sorokin have three children. The eldest son was elected a deputy of the Nizhny Novgorod Legislative Assembly in 2016. Godfather youngest daughter Elizabeth became the former children's ombudsman Pavel Astakhov.

In 2012, an honorary consulate of Hungary was opened in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Nagornaya became its representative. According to her, she had long been acquainted with representatives of the Hungarian embassy. At the time of her appointment, Nagornaya had ideas for developing cooperation with Hungary.

During the event, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Nizhny Novgorod Sergey Malov said that Nagornoy was instructed to work out the issue of opening a direct flight from Nizhny to Budapest. After 5 years, the flight has not been launched.

“The work of an honorary consul is, in fact, people's diplomacy. Its results are difficult to express in numbers. Moreover, we do not have specific tasks to increase, for example, trade or tourist flow between the two countries,” Nagornaya said in an interview with MK in Nizhny Novgorod.

Nagornaya chose intercultural cooperation as the main front of her work. So in 2015, near the Seventh Heaven shopping center and the residential complex the sculpture "Breakthrough" appeared. Its author is a Hungarian artist Erwin Herve Laurent. Hungary made an expensive gift to Nizhny Novgorod.

The huge sculpture depicts a man getting out of the ground. Some saw in her a similarity with the ex-governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Valery Shantsev, an opponent of Sorokin. Shantsev did not come to the opening of the monument. “For the first time in many years, a work of art has become a subject of general discussion in Nizhny Novgorod, and this is wonderful, it shows that our city is a living, active and intellectual space,” Nagornaya commented on the Hungarian gift. The sculpture was discussed not only by the regional, but also by the federal media - including because it reminds of the conflict between Shantsev and Sorokin. The people dubbed the gift of the Hungarians "Nizhny Novgorod troll."

In 2014, a stainless steel sculpture of a deer was created at the expense of the honorary consulate. Its author is a Hungarian sculptor Gabor Jock. Nizhny Novgorod residents took such a gift for granted, because according to the results of 2013, Nagornaya was recognized as the richest among the wives of Russian officials. Her income amounted to 1.7 billion rubles.

The federal media and activists became interested in the activities of Nagornaya and Sorokin. In 2013 the politician Dmitry Gudkov found out that Nagornaya has two villas in Cannes.

In 2011, Sorokin sold his stake in the development company and his other firms to Nagornaya. This happened after Sorokin was appointed mayor of Nizhny Novgorod. According to the anonymous list "110 firms of Oleg Sorokin", Nagornaya is connected with a third of the companies. The rest of the shares belong to the current CEO of Capital Nizhny Oleg Golovko, family Akatov, Andrey Taig and other entrepreneurs.

Now, according to the Spark Interfax service, Nagornaya is affiliated with 29 Nizhny Novgorod companies. In November 2014, the regional Investigative Committee organized an investigation into Sorokin's illegal participation in entrepreneurial activities. According to the department, in 2011-2012 the Nizhny Novgorod administration held auctions for the development of the territory in Nizhny Novgorod region and lease of 14 plots. Then contracts were concluded with RegionInvest52 and Ingradstroy LLC.

In March 2013, a criminal case was initiated under article 165 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Causing damage by deceit or breach of trust”. At the same time, searches were carried out in the companies Stolitsa Nizhny and Start-Stroy. In February 2014, the case was closed for lack of corpus delicti.

In 2010, the developer "Zhilstroy-NN" won the competition for the development of a site in the Sovetsky district. After that, "Start-Stroy" turned to the Nizhny Novgorod OFAS. The antimonopolists found violations during the competition. The Zhilstroy site went to Start-Story. The infrastructure at the facility was built at the expense of the city budget. Experts estimated the damage to the city at 1.6 billion rubles.

Two years later, Ingradstroy received 453 hectares for development in the Sovetsky District on a leasehold basis. The results of the competition in the OFAS were contested by two Moscow companies - ZhBK-Stroy LLC and Vektron CJSC. A businessman came to Vectron with a proposal of a bribe of 30 million for the withdrawal of the appeal Mansur Sadekov. When he was arrested, Sadekov publicly declared: for a crime under Art. 204 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation followed Sorokin's orders. He was interrogated as a witness, and Sadekov went to prison. The site remained with the Ingradstroy company.

Initially, this territory was provided for the development of an IT park. But the Ankudinovka technopark turned from a major federal project into a regional scandal involving the Nagornaya company. As a result, Ankudinovka was left with only a business incubator.

Companies of Nagornaya were also seen in the development of the historical territories of the city. So, for example, it happened with a triangle bounded by Gorky, Novaya and Ilyinskaya streets. It was built up with old merchant estates. In one of the houses in 1879 the writer lived Maksim Gorky. Initially, the entire block fell under protection, but gradually the protection zone decreased to one house. The government of the Nizhny Novgorod region has spent 370 million rubles on the resettlement of residential buildings and the demolition of dilapidated housing in this triangle. Then the officials sold the cleared area to Regioninvest52 LLC for 84.3 million rubles. In 2012, the prosecutor's office conducted an inspection, but no criminal or administrative cases were opened.

In the summer of 2017, it became known that 25-story buildings would be built within Krasnoselskaya, Barminskaya, Maxim Gorky and Malaya Yamskaya streets (this zone is historical). The developer is Stroyinvest-52. In the area of ​​these streets there is a restriction on the number of storeys of houses. It is established by the "Rules for land use and development in Nizhny Novgorod" and approved by the City Duma. However, the administration of Nizhny Novgorod made an exception for Stroyinvest-52.

On December 22, 2016, information appeared that Nagornaya and the deputy of the Legislative Assembly Felix Verkhovodov The Shatford restaurant will be built in Alexander Garden. In January, 18 lindens were cut down there. Residents of Nizhny Novgorod were outraged by what was happening. “The construction of a restaurant in the Alexander Garden will not be worse for anyone,” Sorokin told NewsNN at the time.

Then the regional prosecutor's office opened an administrative case due to the construction of the "Shatford". The developer was accused of non-compliance with the legislation on cultural heritage sites. Employees of the department found that on the site, with the help of construction equipment, work was underway on the planning of the territory. In addition, the developer did not preliminarily agree on the sections of the project documentation for the preservation of cultural heritage sites "Cultural layer of Nizhny Novgorod" and "Nizhny Novgorod slope". The prosecutor's office made a submission to the developer.

Thanks to Nagornaya, the market on Sovetskaya Square was closed in 2013 due to the construction of the shopping and entertainment center. By decision of the investment council under Shantsev, back in 2009 land plot with an area of ​​8.45 hectares, including the territory of the market, was provided for the construction of a company affiliated with Nagornaya.

Another market that may be closed due to its construction is Karpovsky. The private sector "Karpovka" located next to it in the Leninsky district of Nizhny Novgorod may also be demolished. It is planned to build a quarter of 17-storey buildings and a shopping and entertainment complex on this site. The Global Estate company, affiliated with Nagornaya, is going to build up 33 hectares of land.

Sorokin's wife is trying to raise production at one of the leading enterprises of folk art crafts in the region - JSC " Khokhloma painting". In April 2015, Nagornaya acquired a controlling stake in this enterprise. Now "Khokhloma painting" is closed joint stock company. At the end of 2015, the company's net profit decreased from 11.081 million rubles to 1.114 million rubles.

Residential buildings built by Nagornaya companies, according to the residents of Nizhny Novgorod, do not meet the declared indicators. Particularly dissatisfied with the quality of houses LCD "Flowers" and "Seventh Heaven". The Arbitration Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region is considering the case of the developer of the residential complex "Flowers" - "Start-Stroy". Shareholders demand from the company a penalty for the delay in the transfer of the apartment. While the clients asked to correct the mistakes of the builders, they had to live in a rented apartment.

In addition, flights of stairs in Flowers were destroyed, tiles on the rings fell off, and metal railings rusted. After several letters from tenants to the developer, these defects were partially eliminated.

Also, residents of this residential complex complain about cracks in the walls and problems with elevators. In April 2017, a woman living in house number 12 on Volzhskaya Embankment Street said that she flew two floors down in an elevator with a 3-month-old baby.

A 6-lane asphalt road was brought to the Seventh Heaven microdistrict (Start-Stroy LLC built 150 thousand square meters of housing and a shopping center there) at the expense of the federal budget. Each kilometer of it cost the budget 136 million rubles.

“You can only judge how successful a person is over time. If something happened a couple of times, this is not yet an indicator of success, because you need to constantly move forward. In a word, success for me is stability, ”Nagornaya explained in an interview with her own Bellissimo magazine.