Ishenko Yevgeny Petrovich - popular Russianbusinessman and public figure, politician. He was the head of Volgograd from 2003 to 2006. His court blames four articles of the Criminal Code.
Ishchenko Evgeny Petrovich was born in Volgograd in1972. His father served in the police, and his mother was an engineer. From the age of 15 Evgeny studied in Moscow. First in the physics and mathematics boarding school at the Moscow State University, then at the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University.
He received his second higher education at the Moscow State Institute of Management. However, according to some information, Evgeny Petrovich simply bought the diploma of this university.
In the early 90's, Ishenko Yevgeny Petrovichengaged in business. Together with his classmates, he opened MDM Bank. Evgeny served as deputy chairman of the board of directors. Later he worked in a similar position in another bank - "Moscow Credit". MDM Bank lasted until 2009. Was absorbed in a larger credit organization, URSA Bank. However, by that time Ishchenko had already sold his share in this business to Andrei Melnichenko.
In parallel, Yevgeny Petrovich begins to studysecurity business. Opens ChOP "Arcturus", "Cupid". Performs an audit of the sale of shares of large Russian enterprises, in particular Svyazinvest, Sibneft, Norilsk Nickel. Inspections in the last company was led by himself.
According to journalists, in the mid-2000s, Ishchenko's fortune was about $ 70 million. He has a personal plane.
Engage in politics Ishenko Yevgeny Petrovichbegan in the mid-90's. In 1995 he won the elections to the State Duma from the LDPR party. Was a personal adviser to the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Vladimir Zhirinovsky on financial issues. In 1996 he was Zhirinovsky's confidant in the presidential elections.
In 1999, Ishchenko took up the post of regional headthe LDPR office, at the same time announced his intention to fight for the chair of the mayor of Volgograd. During the election campaign, a major scandal broke out. Journalists compared the program of Volgograd candidate with the program of Yuri Lebedev, who a year earlier became mayor of Nizhny Novgorod. It turned out that they are identical. As a result, the current Mayor Yury Chekhov won the victory.
For Ishchenko, this had serious consequences. He was expelled from the federal list of the LDPR, so the State Duma had to go through a single-seat constituency, and not according to the list, as he supposed.
In 1999, Yevgeny Petrovich Ischenko won again in the elections to the federal parliament. Volgograd supported him as an independent candidate.
In the Duma the politician was in the deputy group "People's Deputy", he was a member of the Property Committee. In 2000, Ishchenko decided to participate in the inter-factional association "Business Russia".
In 2002, Evgeny Petrovich Ishenko, photowho regularly appeared in public and political publications, organized his own party - "Revival". It included some members of the "Russian National Unity" - a movement created by Alexander Barkashov.
The ideas of Russian nationalism advanced in the party. However, it was not possible to register with the Ministry of Justice. Therefore, his party decided to join the "Party of the Renaissance of Russia."
In 2003 Ishchenko again took part in the electionshead of Volgograd. Actively applied pre-election technologies, for example, the free newspaper "Day by Day" was widely distributed. Elections took place ahead of schedule, as Chekhov resigned.
Ishchenko led the campaign as an independent candidate, buttwo weeks before the vote became a member of the party "United Russia". Turnout was low - only 33%. The victory was won by Yevgeny Petrovich Ischenko. The head of Volgograd received the support of almost 40 percent of voters. Vladimir Goryunov, who took second place, earned less than 30% of the vote.
His work in the mayor's office was accompanied by constantscandals. Ishchenko was accused of having bought a Mercedes at his own expense. A personal driver took a criminal convicted for murder and drug trafficking. His wife is trying to evict a kindergarten from the city center in order to realize her own business project in the building. And her mother became the head of a municipal enterprise, which began to manage all urban markets.
Despite this, Yevgeny Petrovich Ischenko, whose biography was closely connected with his native city, intended to run for the post of governor. However, he failed to register. One of the reasons for the refusal was the loss of Evgeny Petrovich's passport, which was decorated with documents submitted to the electoral commission. As a result, he isThey refused, because the documents listed 4 different passports. Because of this incident, his deputy Konstantin Kalachev, who lost the mayor's passport, resigned. True, Ishchenko did not accept it. Kalachev remained vice-mayor, supervised the information policy.
Ishchenko challenged the decision of the election commission. He was supported by the regional court, which found the arguments insignificant for refusing registration.
However, the last word was left for the Supremecourt, which was addressed by the chairman of the election commission and the regional prosecutor. The Supreme Court finally deprived Ishchenko of the opportunity to participate in the struggle for the governorship.
In May 2006, the biggest scandal broke outin Ishchenko's political career. The politician was arrested. The investigation brought charges against several articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Ishchenko was accused of illegal extraction of aquatic animals and plants, abuse of authority, illegal participation in entrepreneurial activities and abuse of power.
Subsequently, articles on the abuse of authority andillegal mining of aquatic animals and plants have disappeared, but illegal storage of weapons has been added to them. As a result of the search, militants were found in the apartment of the politician.
The prosecutor's office claimed that the head of Volgogradillegally received profits from the Volgograd network of shopping centers "Pyaterochka" and in personal interests provided protection to the firm "Tamerlan". Ishchenko was taken into custody in the courtroom.
Eugene Petrovich folded his powers onlysix months later, announcing that he does not want to make the hostages of ordinary Volgograd residents left without the head of the administration, and even before the heating season.
The trial began in 2007.The prosecutor's office demanded four years of imprisonment for Ishchenko. The court found the policy of guilty only for two articles: illegal business activities and possession of weapons. The ex-mayor of Volgograd received a year of arrest. He had already served time, while in the Volgograd remand prison.
The investigator in his case was Denis Nikandrov, who several years later was himself accused of corruption in connection with the case of Zakharia Kalashov, a representative of the Russian mafia.
After liberation Ishchenko left politics andHe left Volgograd, concentrating on entrepreneurship. He returned to his native city in 2011. Its main goal is to realize the project of the embankment reconstruction, which was developed even during his management of the city.
Ishenko Yevgeny Petrovich, whose family is large enough - an Orthodox Christian. He has five children.
His brother works in the Pskov region onthe position of prosecutor. The cousin also has a relationship with law enforcement. In the 2000s, he directed the Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General's Office for the North-West Federal District. His uncle teaches criminology at the Moscow State Law Academy.
Happy in marriage Ishenko Yevgeny Petrovich. Yevgeny Att's wife has been with him for many years.
