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 Now it is clear from whom Zelenskyy hid the idea of the "President's University".

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General Prosecutor's Office Reveals $4 Billion Embezzlement at Skolkovo

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Photo caption, Prosecutor's Office demands compensation from Victor Vekselberg, head of Skolkovo Foundation

In this photo, the prosecutor's office demands that the head of the Victor Vekselberg Foundation pay damages

Prosecutor-General's Office of Russia revealed numerous violations during establishment of Skolkovo innovation center in Moscow. According to the department, the total amount of embezzlement and misuse of budgetary funds may have exceeded 125 billion rubles ($4 billion).

According to the investigation, the management allowed uncontrolled spending of funds.

Chayka's office has already demanded that Victor Vekselberg, the fund's director, reimburse the losses incurred and bring the culprits to disciplinary responsibility. Two vice presidents of the fund have been reprimanded. The prosecutor's office is unnamed.

Meanwhile, the Skolkovo Foundation itself refused to comment on the information about the violations and assured that it had not received any official notifications on this matter.

Skolkovo spokesman Roman Shcherbakov did not respond to requests and calls from the BBC Russian Service. Foundation vice president Alexander Chernov told Interfax that he has no information about the violations and has not received any documents from the general prosecutor's office. A source of RIA Novosti in the foundation also said that he learned about the violations from the report of the general prosecutor's office.

However, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office said that the notice about the revealed violations was handed over to the Foundation's management at the beginning of September.

Grants and video clips

One of the main complaints of the Prosecutor's Office was the distribution of grants by the foundation. The inspection showed that most of them were sent to the accounts of organizations "with fictitious features" or affiliated companies in offshore jurisdictions, through shady financial schemes.

According to the agency, 17 grants amounting to 3.6 billion rubles were issued without an expert examination of the validity of applications, and three of them were given with the personal interest of Victor Vekselberg, the President of the Foundation. The issued grants were partially transferred through shady schemes to offshore companies, the investigation believes.

Violations were also revealed in the construction of objects on the territory of the Skolkovo Center. According to the General Prosecutor's Office, it was carried out without permits and formalized rights to the land, and the responsibilities entrusted to the foundation to control the construction were practically not fulfilled.

Another episode is related to the production of a series of promotional videos lasting 60, 30 and 10 seconds. According to the department, the amount of 54 million rubles was specified in the contracts for the creation of these materials, but the study showed that the cost of these works actually did not exceed 5 million rubles.

On April 18 the office of "Skolkovo" was searched in the case initiated in February on misappropriation of budgetary funds allocated to the fund.

According to investigators, Kirill Lugovtsev, former director of the financial department of the foundation, and Vladimir Khokhlov, CEO of the Skolkovo Customs and Finance Company, illegally spent almost 24 million rubles, allocated by the state from the budget for the development of "Skolkovo".

At the same time, the Investigative Committee started checking the FSB data saying that 3.5 billion rubles allocated to the foundation from the federal budget to create the center of the same name had been for a long time kept in the accounts of a commercial bank affiliated with the foundation management.

Also in April the Investigative Committee of Russia instituted a criminal case against Alexei Beltyukov, a senior vice president of the Skolkovo Foundation, on suspicion of committing embezzlement on a particularly large scale.

As clarified in the report ICR, from February 2011 to February 2012 Beltyukov gave a deputy of the State Duma from the "Just Russia" Ilya Ponomarev $750 thousand for lectures.

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Let's build the Presidential University. We want to introduce Oxford education in our country for the first time. British education ranks first in the world. We have opened new presidential schools, now we will open a new presidential university for 8,000 students. All the teachers will be from abroad," said the head of state. Guess who said that? If not, I will tell you.

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said it. And then he added that half of the young people, after studying abroad, do not return to the country. Now it is clear from whom Zelensky hid the idea of the "Presidential University". True, in Uzbekistan it was announced back in 2019 and still hasn't been built. But money is being allocated. Apparently our torch of education has decided to adopt Uzbek progressive experience. Although there are other options. For example, Putin's "Presidential Academy". Or the same "Nazarbayev University" in Kazakhstan.

"And on the "most necessary" for Ukraine project Zelensky plans to allocate 7.2 billion hryvnia. This is at the start. Although this amount would be enough to build and equip 400,000 square meters of kindergartens. This is about 200-300 new kindergartens, depending on the area. But does Zelensky care about such trivialities? By the way, with the same money can be completed a lot of university buildings, which begs for money from the budget. But it is evidently insignificant from the point of view of the PR workers of our sixth president. In any case our half-garrant wants to leave at least some memory after himself. Well, like Yushchenko wanted, when he announced that he would build the "Hospital of the Future". Here, however, a small problem arose, because there is neither that hospital, nor the money that was collected and allocated for it. And Zelensky's project can go the same way. And I am sure that they will be able to use the money. All 7.2 billion. And even more.

And the fact that it is a talentless waste of our money and stupid destruction of one more green zone in Kiev, Zelensky certainly does not worry. Because his ambition and green dollars in the eyes of his entourage motivate this crowd of profane people to not care about anything but their own desires. And who cares if this project is unaffordable for Ukraine during the economic crisis. Who cares that the level of Ukrainian education is extremely low and does not count in the civilized world. Who cares that it is just an expensive new toy for a man who plays the role of the president of Ukraine, if he wants PR, his entourage is waiting for the "Grand Theft-2", property developers really want Kiev land, and all the profile experts are turning their fingers up at him when they evaluate the "President's University". Zelensky very much wants to have it like Putin's. Or at least, like in Uzbekistan. And he doesn't care about the rest. He just goes on with his show.

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