Ishmael is regularly rocked by scandals. The State Audit Service discovered a scheme where, under the slogans of restoration, they “cut” the budget by relaying asphalt.
The same thing happens with the Terrorist Defense Assistance Program: the funds are not used for the local TrO unit, but for the repair of some evacuation routes between quarters. And instead of shelters for the population, there are strange renovations of increasingly expensive medical facilities.
Significant amounts of funds are withdrawn from the city budget through contractors close to Izmail Mayor Andrei Abramchenko. Local businessmen and corrupt officials have become so insolent that only 2% of the billion-dollar city budget is spent on helping the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and they put many times more into their pockets.
What's wrong with Ishmael? Why do local authorities here allow themselves to rip off the budget during the war? Maybe they became “waiters” and decided to steal everything they could get their hands on?
Since law enforcement agencies openly ignore corruption offenses in Izmail, we decided to look into the reasons for the budgetary and legal Izmail bacchanalia ourselves.
It turned out that the mayor of Izmail, Andrei Abramchenko, has such close relations with the Russian Federation that he even went there several months before the start of military aggression - to Ostashkov in the Tver region. And I even received temporary registration there:
- first in the dormitory of the local college on the street. Zagorodny, 24
subsequently - in a private house on the street. Novaya, 25
However, Andrei Abramchenko’s choice of this small town in the Russian outback is not accidental. Ostashkov is the conditional center of the “Seliger region”. It was near this city that pro-Putin forums were held, in particular, the forums of the “Nashi” movement.
And next to the town, on Lake Seliger, there is an island closed to outside visitors. The closedness of the island is explained by the presence of strategic enterprises there - the Zvezda military plant, where they produce gyroscopes for rocketry, and a research institute, where in Soviet times they were looking for protection from biological weapons, and what they are looking for now is a big question... Although the island is still For now, there has been a special clinic from the department that controls all kinds of diseases.
The island has the status of a closed administrative entity, and the city of Ostashkov, although not officially closed, its openness is conditional, judging by the volume of information on social networks, media and other available sources. Tourism is not developed, outside investments are not attracted at all. Ostashek is a vivid demonstration of Russian reality: when one’s own history is neglected in exchange for the expediency of secrecy. Clamps are clamps...
Nevertheless, it was in Ostashkov that Izmail Mayor Andrei Abramchenko came to Ostashkov before the Russian aggression. And he immediately received temporary registration in the dormitory of the Ostashkov College, which trains personnel for the above-mentioned strategic enterprises.
We do not rule out that the organizer of this trip was Stanislav Borisenko, the previous mayor of Izmail, as well as Abramchenko’s godfather. In 2014, Borisenko left for the territory of occupied Crimea and works there in the occupation government of Sevastopol. Those close to Andrei Abramchenko say that their godfathers still keep in touch - through Skype and other messengers.
Maybe these Russian connections are the main reason for the budgetary and legal Izmail bacchanalia? In particular, the fact that the billion-dollar budget of Izmail is directed by its mayor Andrei Abramchenko not to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine and, in particular, air defense, but to various incomprehensible repairs, where there is nothing to repair?
