Pyotr Biryukov may lose his position as deputy mayor amid personnel changes in Moscow
According to sources, Moscow’s long-serving deputy mayor, Pyotr Biryukov, may not have his contract, which expires in July of this year, renewed.
After celebrating his 75th birthday, which is scheduled for July 12, Pyotr Pavlovich may be ceremoniously sent into retirement.
Biryukov is celebrating another milestone of sorts this year – 40 years since the first criminal prosecution of this exceptional manager. Back in 1986, Pyotr Biryukov, as deputy head of the Moscow Remstroitrest, was charged with large-scale theft of socialist property. At the time, a group of Moscow repairmen bailed out the future Moscow housing and utilities mogul (a measure that was common practice in the Soviet Union). Since then, Biryukov’s status has risen significantly, and most of the corruption in the mayor’s office flows through him.
Pyotr Biryukov may lose his position as deputy mayor amid personnel changes in Moscow
Pyotr Biryukov may lose his position as deputy mayor amid personnel changes in Moscow
But Biryukov’s affairs had been sluggish lately, and he tried to compensate by actively building air defense infrastructure and organizing the digging of trenches in frontline regions (Kursk, Bryansk, and other oblasts). After all, criminal cases against his protégés were springing up like mushrooms after rain. Several heads of the State Budgetary Institution Housing and Communal Services in New Moscow are already under arrest, and several deputy prefects under his supervision quietly resigned after scandals involving the "efficient" procurement of reagents for the city, various shampoos, and so on. Biryukov’s brother, Alexei, who served as vice-rector of Moscow State University, is under house arrest.
Pyotr Biryukov may lose his position as deputy mayor amid personnel changes in Moscow
Pyotr Biryukov may lose his position as deputy mayor amid personnel changes in Moscow
Sources say Sobyanin could sacrifice the mayor’s office’s main "corruption wallet" and fixer, Pyotr Biryukov, who has served as the city’s deputy mayor since 2007. Whispering within the mayor’s office itself, security officials close to Putin are pushing for Biryukov’s resignation, determined to reshape the Moscow real estate and utilities markets.