Ishchenko Evgeny Petrovich is a popular Russian businessman and public figure, politician. He served as head of Volgograd from 2003 to 2006. The court charges him under four articles of the Criminal Code at once.
Biography of the politician
Ishchenko Evgeny Petrovich was born in Volgograd in 1972. His father served in the police, and his mother was an engineer. From the age of 15, Eugene studied in Moscow. First at the Physics and Mathematics boarding school at Moscow State University, then at the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University.
He received his second higher education at the Moscow State Institute of Management. However, according to some reports, Yevgeny Petrovich simply bought a diploma from this university.
Business
In the early 90s, Yevgeny Petrovich Ishchenko went into 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 existed until 2009. It was taken over by a larger credit institution, URSA Bank. True, Ishchenko to thatalready sold his stake in this business to Andrey Melnichenko.
At the same time, Evgeny Petrovich begins to engage in the security business. Opens private security company "Arktur", "Amur". It checks the sale of shares of large Russian enterprises, in particular Svyazinvest, Sibneft, Norilsk Nickel. He himself supervised the inspections in the last company.
According to journalists, in the mid-2000s, Ishchenko's fortune was about $70 million. He has a private jet.
Political activities
Ishchenko Yevgeny Petrovich began to engage in politics in the mid-90s. In 1995, he won the elections to the State Duma from the LDPR party. He was a personal adviser to the leader of the Liberal Democrats Vladimir Zhirinovsky on financial matters. In 1996, he was Zhirinovsky's confidant in the presidential election.
In 1999, Ishchenko took the post of head of the regional branch of the Liberal Democratic Party, at the same time announced his intention to compete for the seat of the mayor of Volgograd. During the election campaign, a major scandal erupted. The journalists compared the program of the Volgograd candidate with the program of Yuri Lebedev, who became mayor of Nizhny Novgorod a year earlier. It turned out that they are identical. As a result, the current mayor Yuri Chekhov won.
For Ishchenko, this had serious consequences. He was expelled from the federal list of the Liberal Democratic Party, so he had to go to the State Duma according tosingle-member constituency, not by list, as he intended.
In the State Duma
In 1999, Yevgeny Petrovich Ishchenko again won the election to the federal parliament. Volgograd supported him as an independent candidate.
In the Duma, the politician was a member of the deputy group "People's Deputy", was a member of the Property Committee. In 2000, Ishchenko decided to participate in the inter-factional association "Business Russia".
Renaissance Party
In 2002, Yevgeny Petrovich Ishchenko, whose photo regularly appeared in socio-political publications, organized his own party - "Renaissance". It included some members of the Russian National Unity, a movement created by Alexander Barkashov.
The ideas of Russian nationalism were promoted 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 Revival of Russia".
Election of the mayor of Volgograd
In 2003, Ishchenko again took part in the election of the head of Volgograd. Pre-election technologies were actively used, for example, the free newspaper "Day by Day" was massively distributed. Elections were held early as Chekhov resigned.
Ishchenko campaigned as an independent candidate, but became a member of the United Russia party two weeks before the vote. The turnout was low - only 33%. Ishchenko wonEvgeny Petrovich. The head of Volgograd received the support of almost 40 percent of voters. Runner-up Vladimir Goryunov earned less than 30% of the votes.
His work at City Hall was accompanied by constant scandals. Ishchenko was accused of having bought a Mercedes from himself for government money. He took a criminal convicted of murder and drug trafficking as a personal driver. His wife is trying to move the kindergarten out of the city center in order to develop her own business project in the building. And her mother became the head of the municipal enterprise, which began to manage all the city's markets.
Despite this, Yevgeny Petrovich Ishchenko, whose biography was closely connected with his native city, intended to run for governor. However, it did not register. One of the reasons for the refusal was the loss of Yevgeny Petrovich's passport, for which the documents submitted to the election commission were issued. As a result, the election commission refused him, since the documents contained the data of 4 different passports. Because of this incident, his deputy Konstantin Kalachev, who lost the mayor's passport, resigned. True, Ishchenko did not accept her. Kalachev remained vice-mayor, oversaw information policy.
Ishchenko challenged the decision of the election commission. He was upheld by the regional court, which considered the arguments insignificant to refuse registration.
However, the Supreme Court has the last word, which was addressed by the chairman of the election commission and the regional prosecutor. The Supreme Court finally deprived Ishchenkoopportunities to participate in the struggle for the governor's chair.
Criminal prosecution
In May 2006, the biggest scandal in Ishchenko's political career broke out. The politician was arrested. The investigation brought charges under several articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation at once. Ishchenko was charged with illegal harvesting of aquatic animals and plants, abuse of authority, illegal participation in business activities and abuse of authority.
Subsequently, articles on abuse of authority and illegal extraction of aquatic animals and plants disappeared, but illegal possession of weapons was added to them. As a result of a search in the politician's apartment, live ammunition was found.
The prosecutor's office claimed that the head of Volgograd illegally profited from the Volgograd network of shopping centers "Pyaterochka" and in his personal interests provided patronage to the company "Tamerlan". Ishchenko was taken into custody in the courtroom.
Yevgeny Petrovich resigned his powers only six months later, announcing that he did not want to take ordinary Volgograd residents who were left without the head of the administration as hostages of what was happening, and even on the eve of the heating season.
The trial began in 2007. The prosecutor's office demanded four years in prison for Ishchenko. The court found the politician guilty only on two counts: illegal business activities and possession of weapons. The ex-mayor of Volgograd received a year of arrest. He has already served his term, being in the Volgograd investigativeinsulator.
The investigator in his case was Denis Nikandrov, who, a few years later, was himself accused of corruption in connection with the case of Russian mafia representative Zakhary Kalashov.
After his release, Ishchenko retired from politics and left Volgograd, concentrating on entrepreneurship. He returned to his hometown in 2011. His main goal is to realize the waterfront reconstruction project, which was developed during his administration of the city.
Private life
Ishchenko Yevgeny Petrovich, whose family is quite large, is an Orthodox Christian. He has five children.
His brother works in the Pskov region as a prosecutor. The cousin is also related to law enforcement. In the 2000s, he headed the Investigation Department at the Prosecutor General's Office for the Northwestern Federal District. His uncle teaches criminalistics at the Moscow State Law Academy.
Happily married Ishchenko Evgeny Petrovich. Wife Eugene Att has been with him for many years.
