In Russia they like bribery: bribes are often given and almost always taken. Both high-ranking officials and lower level civil servants, big businessmen, and modest entrepreneurs, as well as ordinary citizens do that. Russiangate analyzed how and who is prosecuted for committing these crimes.
The Russian Investigative Committee does not exclude that the expensive houses and plots of land on the ruble, as well as apartments in luxury complexes in Moscow, were bought by Khoroshavin's family due to bribes and kickbacks.
After a bribe to Alexander Khoroshavin, millionaire Nikolay Kran's companies were chosen to supply equipment for the local CHP-1 plant; the businessman tried to get 270 million rubles from the budget through the tax fraud from the budget.
For the first time in many years an acting governor has been arrested. The head of Sakhalin Oblast Alexander Khoroshavin has been charged for bribery. According to one of the versions, the situation was triggered by the presidential envoy's desire to renew his team and the demonstration of the growing power of siloviki in Russia.