WHO IS BEHIND THE PROPOSALS FOR THE LIQUIDATION OF THE FMS AND THE FSKN

Talk about the imminent liquidation of independent law enforcement agencies of the Federal migration service(FMS) and the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) have been walking in the highest political circles for several months, but they have never been so close to a real reorganization. The Ministry of Internal Affairs also falls into the orbit of forced reforms. Against the backdrop of widespread cuts in budgets, a general reduction in staff, discussions in the ranks of the special services came to the fore about the alleged resignation of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the subsequent merger of three or more law enforcement agencies into a single one.

Indeed, there has not been such a mass cleansing for a long time. And according to some data, this is really connected with the difficult economic situation in the country. Otherwise, the authorities would not encroach on the security forces, considering them their faithful support. According to other sources, financial problems in the country have become a good reason for changes in the most powerful clan of security officials, accompanied by another "war of compromising evidence." In any case, massive layoffs will result in as many as 100,000 people trained to handle weapons on the streets. Correspondents of "Top Secret" decided to understand the true background of the upcoming changes.

A high-ranking source in the Federal Drug Control Service, on condition of anonymity, told Sovershenno Sekretno that at the end of December 2014, two letters appeared on the desk of President Vladimir Putin proposing the liquidation of the Federal Drug Control Service and the Federal Migration Service and the transfer of their powers to the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

“The author of the first letter was the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Anton Siluanov, the second was signed by Vladimir Kolokoltsev, the Minister of Internal Affairs, our interlocutor says. - The rationale for such proposals was the reduction, the so-called optimization of budgetary funds. Between January 20 and 25 of this year, an operational one-hour meeting was held with the president, but no decision was made. In my opinion, both of these letters could have been initiated by someone, both characters are “forced people”, Kolokoltsev could have been promised something, some new position, maybe even a place in the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

On the other hand, the Ministry of Finance could be guided by the decree of the president himself dated July 10, 2014 on “optimizing financial support, increasing the efficiency of spending budget funds,” but the budget for this year has already been approved. Economic benefits may come only in 2017. And the Ministry of Internal Affairs could be guided by the fact that if drug control and the Federal Migration Service are reduced, then their ministry will not be touched, the money saved will help them avoid reductions. In general, there is a lot of obscurity in this story.

Take, for example, recent publications in the media that databases of drug addicts from the Federal Drug Control Service appeared on free sale - the operatives then went through the points of sale and did not find anything, and even if such databases are collected, then only the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Drug Control Service is busy collecting data on drug trafficking, large drug cartels, organized criminal groups and drug dens, individual street drug addicts and traffickers are engaged in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Then there were publications about the suicides of cancer patients, also with a reference to the Federal Drug Control Service, although drug-containing drugs were not their business - it became clear that the publications were also initiated by someone ... Everything was arranged so that negative reviews on the Federal Drug Control Service would pass before the meeting.

The assertion of our source about the “servitude” of the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is confirmed by other facts. According to some reports, Kolokoltsev's resignation report was written shortly after the arrest of his subordinate, the head of the Department for Combating Economic Crimes and Combating Corruption, General Denis Sugrobov, and lies in the depths of the Presidential Administration, waiting in the wings.

According to our sources, without waiting for real help from his leader, Sugrobov revealed to the representatives of the FSB the entire mechanism of the shadow activities of his unit and the attitude of the minister to this. We are talking about large-scale banking offers related to the legalization and laundering of large Money. The answer to the question why the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs advocated the liquidation of the FMS in particular may lie in the long-standing and well-known dislike of the Internal Security Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs towards their former colleagues who went to work in the Migration Service. However, first things first.

FSKN VS FSB

The activities of the Federal Drug Control Service, it should be noted, for many - "a secret behind seven seals." Formed in 2003 on the basis of the disbanded Tax Police, the service was officially supposed to fight drug crime. The main task of the State Drug Control Service, as the Federal Drug Control Service is also called, was to block large channels for the supply of drugs to Russia and combat the legalization of criminal proceeds.

According to an unspoken order, the purpose of the FSKN is to duplicate some of the functions of the FSB, and in certain cases, to be a deterrent for the "chekists" who have received broad powers.

The ideologist for the creation of the service was the closest associate of Vladimir Putin at that time, a personnel security officer, deputy director of the FSB and a confidant in the 2000 presidential election, Viktor Cherkesov. Knowing Vladimir Putin from the Leningrad department of the KGB, Cherkesov enjoyed his serious confidence. However, four years after the creation of the Federal Drug Control Service, according to observers close to the special services, the head of Gosnarkontrol did not notice how his professional tasks shifted exclusively towards fighting his former colleagues, high-ranking employees from Lubyanka.

A fatal role in the fate of Cherkesov was played not so much by the operational support of a high-profile criminal case on the facts of smuggling furniture from Europe into Russia, better known as "Three Whales". And not even the fact that FSB generals were involved in the case, but the fact that Viktor Cherkesov violated the main commandment of the "office" - under no circumstances "do not wash dirty linen in public."

After the arrest of his subordinate General Alexander Bulbov, who led the operational support of the Three Whales case, Viktor Cherkesov criticized the FSB on the pages of the federal media and for the first time publicly announced the war between the clans of the Russian security forces. In this whirlpool of events, both conflicting parties suffered. Together with Cherkesov, the then director of the FSB, Nikolai Patrushev, and the Prosecutor General of Russia, Vladimir Ustinov, lost their posts.

Alexander Bortnikov in the FSB, Viktor Ivanov in the Federal Drug Control Service, and Yury Chaika in the Prosecutor General's Office, who came to replace them, were supposed to mitigate inter-clan differences. The new director of Gosnarkokontrol almost managed to do it.

HU FROM MR. IVANOV?

A native of the KGB of the USSR, who went through the war in Afghanistan and rose to the rank of deputy head of the FSB of Russia for economic security, Viktor Ivanov for a long time remained the chief personnel officer of the Kremlin (he held the position of assistant to the president for personnel policy).

In the photo: VICTOR IVANOV, DIRECTOR of the Federal Drug Control Service

At the beginning of the 2000s, everyone was firmly convinced that Ivanov was Putin's man, he often spoke on his behalf at various public events. There was an unconfirmed, but also undeniable legend that it was Viktor Petrovich who recruited the young Vladimir Vladimirovich to the KGB. A person of an analytical mindset, tenacious, able to collect information, and often too meticulously, and select the right shots.

After Putin was appointed head of the FSB, he first headed the Internal Security Directorate there as deputy director. Since 2000, deputy head of the presidential administration, responsible for personnel. In 2002, he headed the board of directors of the newly created Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern, which produces S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems, and also oversees the Main Directorate for CIS Affairs of the presidential administration.

It was on Ivanov's initiative that the actively operating Pardon Commission under the President of the Russian Federation was liquidated, after which the number of convicts pardoned by the President significantly decreased. Some political scientists believe that "according to the views of Viktor Ivanov, he is a statesman of the Latin American type." Viktor Ivanov is considered the actual author of the law "On Citizenship of the Russian Federation".

According to Sergei Markov, director of the Institute for Political Studies, the law is not liberal enough and contains numerous opportunities for abuse by officials and law enforcement agencies. They say that he opposed the Surkov-Voloshin group in business and did not emerge victorious.

His appearance in the building at Maroseyka, 12 (the central building of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia. - Ed.), Many observers at first regarded it as a downgrading of status. His capabilities have become incomparable with those he possessed while working in the Kremlin. And the area of ​​responsibility is much more modest and specialized. However, over the past years, the structure of the Federal Drug Control Service under Ivanov has undergone serious qualitative and quantitative changes.

Now, not everyone will remember how, at the dawn of its activity, the FSKN managed to make enough enemies in a short time, not only in other "power" and civilian government agencies, but also among human rights activists. Already in the first year of its work, drug control was at the center of a scandal due to attempts to prosecute veterinarians who were accused of drug trafficking (by this drug police understood injections of anesthetics to cats and dogs).

Then the Federal Drug Control Service came under fire because of attempts to "expose" doctors (surgeons, gynecologists), representatives of the chemical industry. With the advent of Viktor Ivanov, such stories have become much less. The number of service employees reached 34.5 thousand people. This included combat anti-terrorist units and an analytical service, including on the Internet, to search for drug dealers using electronic transfer of funds. So-called electronic wallets. And the average time for the development of criminal groups to initiate a criminal case was three to five months.

Yes, on the ground, now in Moscow, now in the regions, employees of the State Drug Control Service continue to get into scandalous situations with suspicious constancy. What is the story even worth, when in the summer of 2009 two bodies of employees who, according to some reports, died from a drug overdose, were found in an office in the department of the Federal Drug Control Service for the Western District of Moscow. And in the fall of 2013, again in Moscow, in the north of the capital, two more unconscious employees of the State Drug Control Service were found in a car with a 100-kilogram bag of hydroponics, the same bag of Afghan hashish and a bag of amphetamines.

This seriously damaged the reputation and image of the entire service, but Ivanov's strong administrative position allowed him to maintain balance for a while.

Everything changed with the appointment to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the former head of the Presidential Security Service, Viktor Zolotov, now the first deputy minister - commander of the Internal Troops. As our anonymous interlocutor noted, the presentation in the media of the facts that Zolotov has a hand in the closure of the State Drug Control Service is an “activist” (in the language of the special services, special events aimed at exerting a beneficial influence on the policy of the executive and legislative authorities to solve the tasks facing the economic entity ) and is intended to shape public opinion.

Recall that this version was voiced by one of the leading Russian news agencies - "the transfer of powers to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Federal Drug Control Service and the Federal Migration Service is being discussed in the Kremlin on the initiative of Viktor Zolotov." In the 1990s, Viktor Zolotov was the bodyguard of the mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak. Vladimir Putin at that time served as deputy mayor of the city. From 2000 to 2013, he headed the Presidential Security Service, and was also the deputy head of the FSO. In 2013, Zolotov was transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

It is believed that Zolotov is included in the narrow trusted circle of Vladimir Putin and claims to be the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He wants to lead a strengthened ministry that would take over the functions of two federal services.

Dmitry Vashkin, chief physician of one of the capital's anti-drug clinics, believes that in recent years the FSKN has confirmed its right to exist: “The FSKN is a structure that has been operating for 12 years and performs a very important function. These are 30,000 people who every day fight against illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors. It does so both locally and internationally. This is what the FSKN was created for. Even if a new sub-division is formed on the basis of any other power structure, it will take time. And while bureaucratic delays are being resolved, people will begin to take office, the mechanism will work, a huge number of drugs will enter the market, which will lead to an increase in the incidence. Why break something that works well enough anyway?

Not so long ago, the Federal Drug Control Service expanded its powers and took control of the rehabilitation of drug addicts. When the Federal Drug Control Service began to develop rules and regulations, they asked for help from practitioners - narcologists and rehabilitation specialists. For example, our clinic was invited to the expert council under the Department of the Federal Drug Control Service for the Moscow Region. Not only we go there, but a number of heads of rehabilitation centers and doctors from several clinics. This is the right approach - to ask the opinion of experts!”

State Duma deputy, communist Valery Rashkin, in an interview with Top Secret, on the contrary, advocates the liquidation of the Federal Drug Control Service: “When back in 2003 the issue of a new structure that would take effective measures against drug addiction and drug trafficking was considered, I was only in favor. But every year the statistics of drug crimes did not decrease, but increased. Over the past years, drug trafficking has increased by about 2.3 times, there has been an increase in drug users. At the same time, parallel duties of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Drug Control Service, the Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Drug Control Service, the Investigative Committee and the Federal Drug Control Service arose - it turns out that the Federal Drug Control Service cannot cope?

Went interstructural disassembly. And then in September I wrote a letter to the president with a request to consider the situation in which the Federal Drug Control Service did not justify its duties, and there are many officials in it, these are the personnel who could not ensure the proper functioning of the structure, and we regularly pay them salaries, allocate a budget. FSKN employees discredit the state and special services with endless scandals related to corruption, drug use and racketeering.”

FOR THE SAME RAKE?

Viktor Ivanov does not agree with such a formulation of the question, but, without noticing it himself, he can repeat the fate of his predecessor Viktor Cherkesov. He openly calls the idea of ​​​​the possible accession of the State Drug Control Service to the Ministry of Internal Affairs "wrong", the activities of his structure - "underestimated", the methods of work - "exclusive", the affairs - "complicated", confirming with facts and figures that his department since its inception "has achieved considerable success in the fight against large drug groups, including transnational ones. Ivanov believes that his department is changing structurally, successfully testing new methods of work along with the growing "synthetic tsunami" that threatened to further increase the number of drug addicts, increase crime and terrorism in the country.

Suppliers went online, and his employees began to catch them there. There are constantly new chemical formulas of drugs - his specialists track them, and on January 30, 2015, the upper house of the Federal Assembly Russian Federation adopted a federal law that gives the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia the right to ban new psychoactive substances. There are already 700 new names of synthetics. The law came into force on February 14.

And in February, three major joint operations of the State Drug Control Service with foreign colleagues were carried out - "Shanghai Web", "Carpathians" and "Black Banker". During the latter, an online store and a warehouse of ready-to-sell spices supervised by Ukrainian citizens, who, in their own words, were recruited during the Maidan, were destroyed, and they kept the proceeds from criminal activities in the bank of Ukrainian businessman and official Igor Kolomoisky. And this is not just narcotic, but also political affairs.

In addition to Privatbank Kolomoisky, the American bank Wachovia, American Express Bank and HSBC bank appear in the operational materials. An interesting detail, as soon as these financial structures appeared in the information space in the context of money laundering from the drug trade, according to our information, the FSKN received deputy requests from about 30 Russian deputies asking them to stop the investigation. As they say - draw your own conclusions.

GOLDEN GUEST WORKER

In the spring of 2011, a serious scandal erupted in the Federal Migration Service of Russia. FMS spokesman Konstantin Poltoranin made a revolutionary statement in an interview with the English BBC: “The future of the white race is under threat. Its survival is at stake, and in Russia this issue is palpable.” Just a few minutes after these words, the long-term boss of Poltoranin, Konstantin Romodanovsky, signed an order to dismiss a subordinate who was inaccurate in his statements.

And a year later, the long-term press secretary of Romodanovsky revealed "Top Secret" many secret threads that control migration flows in Russia. Let's say right away: four years after these revelations, the situation has changed only in details, but not in essence. Here are some of the highlights from Konstantin Poltoranin's story.

In the photo: KONSTANTIN ROMODANOVSKY, HEAD OF THE FMS

“In my opinion, the main and hidden task of the FMS was to create certain conditions for collecting shadow funds. Only about 5,000 employees are directly involved in migration control in Russia. And in Moscow and the Moscow region, through which one third of the total migratory flow, serve less than a thousand people!

Naturally, they cannot control this flow of migrants and do not control it. But such a number of FMS employees is quite enough to collect shadow funds, with which this structure copes well. According to some experts, at least about $10 billion is spent annually. The shadow funds of the migration market consist of fees for obtaining a visa, for issuing foreign passports and citizenship, for work and temporary residence permits, residence permits and, of course, fines for illegally working migrants - all this is a lot of money that is extracted from the "throats » in the FMS paperwork.

The collapse of this bureaucratic machine would be inevitable with so many employees and zero infrastructure development. The system will break down if you try to properly “register” even a million migrants. Therefore, there is only some appearance of activity, but in fact the FMS serves large syndicates in the gas sector, oil industry, trade, and so on. The workers of these syndicates work more or less legally, but the average business does not have the opportunity to legalize its workers.

I think they had about 15-20 million dollars in cash every month from Moscow alone. This is how the hierarchy of requisitions is built. It is clear that officials from the Migration Service cannot create a system similar in scale to the Russian Post or Sberbank and install a document acceptance point on every corner. Small intermediary firms approach a large operator directly connected with the Federal Migration Service. They do all the dirty work, getting less than a tenth of the cost of the "service". Without intermediaries, the FMS can work with large construction companies that employ tens of thousands of guest workers. Diasporas are also the main intermediary operators.

The leadership of the Federal Migration Service has created a system that allows you to directly take out representatives of Tajik, Uzbek and Kyrgyz guest workers. There are no firm rules in the market of migration services. Another director's order was issued to "tighten" - the price of a passport or work permit has doubled. The next general is building a dacha - we still have to chip in.

Meanwhile, according to our sources, the FMS, headed by Konstantin Romodanovsky, in contrast to Viktor Ivanov's FSKN, is unlikely to be disbanded. But even if this happens, the losses will not be painful.

Having come to the KGB from the 1st Medical Institute, after graduating from the highest KGB courses in Minsk, Romodanovsky first worked in the 5th Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, and since 1992 - in the Internal Security Directorate of the FSB. According to some reports, in the late 1990s, Romodanovsky was in danger of being fired, but the St. Petersburg team that came to the FSB came to the rescue. Interesting fact, at that very time, it was Viktor Ivanov who made a bet on Romodanovsky, appointing Konstantin Olegovich as the first deputy head of the FSB CSS. His real career take-off will occur after meeting the head of the Presidential Security Service, Viktor Zolotov, who we already know.

It was then, in May 2001, that Romodanovsky was assigned to head the Internal Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to operational data, Romodanovsky did a disservice to his business ties, in particular with the infamous owner of the Cherkizovsky market, Telman Ismailov. The creation of the FMS in 2005 and the appointment of Romodanovsky as its head was actually a lifeline for the general. Our sources claim that Romodanovsky has maintained good relations with Zolotov, and even if his service is transferred back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he has every chance to remain at the helm of migration flows.

Romodanovsky's former deputy in the FMS, Vyacheslav Postavnin, in a conversation with Top Secret, supported the idea of ​​liquidating the service and transferring its powers back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs: “According to statistics, illegal migration is only increasing. Corruption among FMS officials is rampant. The FMS failed to cope with the functions assigned to it. A normal system for managing migration processes has not been created, for the sake of which this service was created. New law“On Patents for Foreign Workers” Moscow has now taken over, since at the regional level the distribution of patents would be based solely on financial considerations, and not on the basis of necessity and necessity. Instead of specialists, there are now policemen, traffic cops, and security officers. And they do not know how and do not want to deal with social problems.

Instead, the Ministry of Internal Affairs can easily deal with passports and visas. People in the FMS have ceased to understand the subject of their service. It is a pity that migration as a phenomenon, as a process, will remain ownerless when the Federal Migration Service is liquidated, but even now it is ownerless. And migration is a mass phenomenon, socially dangerous and unpredictable, if it is not controlled.”

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FSKN building, August 2013 (Photo: RIA Novosti)

President's decision

Russian President Vladimir Putin subordinated the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) and the Federal Migration Service (FMS) to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. He stated this at a meeting with the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Viktor Kolokoltsev, the head of the Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Ivanov, the commander of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Viktor Zolotov and the deputy head of the FMS Ekaterina Egorova, RIA Novosti reports.

“As for the fight against organized crime in the sphere of drug trafficking, then, as we said, we are implementing one of the proposals: we are transferring the Federal Drug Control Service to the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs,” the agency quotes him. “The same goes for the migration service,” Putin added.

At the same meeting, the President

Information that the Ministry of Internal Affairs can transfer the powers of the Federal Drug Control Service and the FMS, . On January 30, 2015, RBC was told about this by two State Duma deputies and an interlocutor close to the Kremlin and Security Council of Russia . At the same time, a draft on the liquidation of the Federal Drug Control Service had already been prepared, but in the end Ivanov said that this issue was removed from the agenda..

The fate of the FMS

An RBC source close to the leadership of the FMS previously stressed that the head of the FMS, Konstantin, would also object. Romodanovsky . RBC's interlocutor in the Kremlin noted that no decisions had been made.

Later in the Kremlin . One of RBC's interlocutors in the law enforcement agencies specified that Putin instructed the Security Council to further develop a proposal to abolish the FMS. At the same time, the source said, Security CouncilRomodanovsky can count on the support of his colleague in the FSB’s own security department, the current director of the Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Ivanov, as well as a permanent member Security Council Boris Gryzlov.

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The competence of the FMS included issues of granting citizenship, issuing visas to enter Russia, issuing and issuing passports to citizens of the Russian Federation, deportation and a ban on entry for violators migration legislation. The leadership of the department consists of representatives of law enforcement agencies. Three of Romodanovsky's eight deputies come from the state security agencies, like himself, and three more come from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

President of the Migration XXI Century Foundation, former Deputy Director of the FMS Vyacheslav Postavnin, in a conversation with RBC, noted that the decision to merge departments had been suggested for a long time, since recently the Ministry of Internal Affairs received some of the functions of the migration service. “The FMS exhausted itself and fell like a ripe apple into the arms of the Ministry of Internal Affairs,” Postavnin said.

Secretary of State, First Deputy Head of the FMS Ekaterina Egorova, in a conversation with RBC, clarified that the decision to merge departments was predictable, since the issue had been discussed for some time. Egorova noted that it would be possible to discuss the technical details of the merger after the publication of the presidential decree, which would become "the starting point for organizing work."

Then it will be possible to talk about whether there will be reductions in the FMS staff, Egorova emphasized. The main direction of the merger, according to her, will be set by Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, and the details will be decided at the working level. The fate of the current head of the Federal Migration Service, Konstantin Romodanovsky, will be decided by Vladimir Putin, Yegorova is sure.

The fate of the FSKN

Question about merger of the Federal Drug Control Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs was also discussed for more than a year. As RBC, citing a source close to the presidential administration, the head of the department, Viktor Ivanov, was against the liquidation of the Federal Drug Control Service. The former deputy head of the presidential administration, Ivanov, for a long time tried to defend the right to exist for the service, trying to expand the agency's sphere of influence and expand the specifics of its work.

In particular, in recent years, the Federal Drug Control Service wanted to monopolize the sphere of rehabilitation and resocialization of drug addicts. The department insisted on allocating funds for the implementation of a program for the rehabilitation and resocialization of drug addicts. The program involves the unification under the auspices of the Federal Drug Control Service of about 500 rehabilitation centers existing in Russia, which, as planned, will be able to receive grants from the state to help drug addicts. In August 2014, the department received the authority to provide financial and organizational support to rehabilitation NGOs by decree of Vladimir Putin.

Before establishment in 2003 FSKN wrestling with drugs was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This was done by the Main Directorate for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (GUBNON). After the disbandment, an anti-drug department was created within the structure of the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation and special departments in the regions. As Kommersant wrote, after the liquidation of the Federal Drug Control Service, it is planned to transfer the drug police to the criminal investigation units. In addition, the possibility of recreating GUBNON is being discussed.