SEARCH FOR IMF CREDIT - "SECOND FRONT"
Stolen $4.8 billions have already generated income of $20 billions.
By Georgi Rozhnov, NovayaGazeta.Ru
Link - http://2003.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2003/80n/n80n-s26.shtml
Almost instantly after August 17, 1998, when Russia slept into abyss of financial crisis, then prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Yury Skuratov, had sanctioned inception of criminal case No. 18/221050-98 "About Improper Usage of IMF Credit".
For more than five years, the next Prosecutor General - Vladimir Ustinov, has not named any name responsible for the embezzlement of IMF money, given to Russia on August 14, 1998, only three days before the default.
Not a penny was returned into pure state treasury from stolen $4,782 billions - precisely that money were to stop financial catastrophe, which eventually bankrupt the people of Russia. And soon entire case was closed.
A year later, by demand Council of Federation, Prosecutor General Office opened another case about the default. Till today there are no one charged. And now I discovered that Accounting Office has opened "second front" - for search for stolen millions are in charge people of Stepashin [ Sergei Stepashin, Chairman of The Accounting Chamber - Governmental Body in control of federal budget ]
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Our newspaper was for long time stating that people responsible for bringing to ruins the Russian population are well known, why Prosecution is not touching them?
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..I took to light buried very deeply in archives Council of Federation Resolution No 447 - ??, from October 15, 1998 "About Social -Economic Situation in Russian Federation and Urgent Measures to Caring out the Country from Current Crisis".
At the same time the Temporary Commission was established for investigating the causes and the aftermath of the default. Pretty soon the senators received the first analytical memo of that Commission and the conclusion. They are awful!
The decisions on default were taken "without necessary in such cases measures to prevent publicizing sanction less confidential information and the usage of such information in commercial interests, and also damaging of the Russian National interests." Commission also acknowledged the fact of "severe violations by Sergey Kirienko and Chubais legal requirements to observe state secrets… secure National Security… Temporary Commission does not excludes the existence of the elements of a cahoots by decisions on makers on August the 17th"
The Commission named all the responsible persons -
"Decisions of August 17th, were taken by S.V. Kirienko and C.K. Dubinin on behalf of Government of Russian Federation and Central Bank respectably, with participation of Minister of Finance, M.M. Zadornov, and firs deputy Chairman of the Central Bank, C.V. Alexashenko, and also A.B. Chubais and E.T. Gaidar? Who were invited by Chairman of the Government [Sergey KIRIENKO] as an experts"
The Council of Federation agreed with all findings of the Temporary Commission and immediately send all documents to the Prosecutor General Office.
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Summary of the rest of the article -
Georgi Rozhnov, who wrote extensively about disappearance of $4.8 billions of IMF money and followed this case very closely, writes about the fact that none in current Government is interested to find out the truth. Prosecutor General Office is overwhelmed with cases against oligarchs like recent arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and bringing to light all responsible for the theft of billions of IMF money and the notorious default (which produced $20 billion for those who planned it) is in no ones interest. And so called "second front" the inquiry of Stepashin's people in Switzerland has produced nothing.