Real estate business in Narva way
20.06.2008, 08:11
For years a small group of people has been
doing lucrative business with the municipal property of the city of Narva,
writes Äripäev.
The group is made up of city councilors Aleksandr Moissejev and Fjodor
Ovsjannikov, former head of the local SEB office Stanislav Sorokin and Aleksei
Voronov, CEO of Narva Vesi.
“All decisions regarding municipal property are made by Moissejev,
Ovsjannikov and Sorokin,” says Ants Pauls, member of the Narva City Council.
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According to experts, the scam works like this: the city council makes a
decision to pass the municipal property for free to one of the companies,
foundations or NGO where the city has a stake. The new owner then sells the
property to the real buyer without having to go through the city council.
Äripäev wrote in 2007 that the real decision maker in Narva is city councilor
Aleksandr Moissejev who single-handedly decides sale of municipal property.
This could be changing since last week the security police arrested Arkadi
Nikolajev, head of the Narva municipal economics department, and searched the
offices of deputy mayor Sofja Homjakova whose husband is mayor’s adviser Vadim
Orlov.