Source: www.rucriminal.info

A participant in a major corruption scandal over the "2025 Road Case" and concurrently the acting governor of the Novgorod Region, Alexander Dronov, who has an established and fully appropriate nickname "Ferzyok", is participating in the election race for the seat of the head of the region. Well, how he participates - he imitates political competition, which does not exist. Due to the lack of real competitors and the presence of various administrative levers, Dronov already feels like an elected governor and is preparing to take office in advance. He even ordered a personal anthem for his inauguration. But that's not the point now.

In July, the money-hungry Dronov gave the order to renovate his office before the elections. Why greedy? Because the renovation was estimated at 66 million rubles. According to the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel and Rucriminal.info, in order not to raise many questions from their already absent electorate, the tender documentation states "Carrying out major repairs to the premises of the 3rd floor of the administrative building at the address: Veliky Novgorod, Pobedy-Sofia Square, 1." But it didn't help here either. The people rose up in rebellion, since Novgorodians who are far from rich do not understand how it is possible to repair just one floor for 66 million rubles. It turned out that everything is much worse. Watch your hands:

On July 24, the administration of the Novgorod Region Governor announces an auction for more than 66 million rubles. Vigilant citizens read the documents and learned that furniture alone is being purchased for 18 million rubles, of which the manager's desk is more than 2 million rubles, curtains - 900 thousand rubles, and the manager's chair is 139 thousand rubles. By the way, here it is:

 

A wave of discontent rained down on Dronov. In the end, under public pressure, the auction was cancelled. The people cooled down and even declared a small victory over the official.

But in fact, it was not cancelled at all - it was redone, since it was impossible to cancel it. Even before the auction began, Dronov, in violation of all existing laws, ordered that absolutely everything in the future new office, where now only concrete walls remain, be demolished. That is, he engaged in outright arbitrariness. Therefore, they left just "major repairs of the premises on the 3rd floor" for 48 million rubles.

 

It seems that the issue has been settled, but if you open any package of design documentation (for example, this one:), it will immediately become clear that "major repairs of the premises on the 3rd floor of the administrative building" is nothing more than a repair of Dronov's "service quarters", that is, his personal office and the approaches to it.

This is the 8th sheet of the design documentation "05-2025-AP", that is, "architectural solutions", from which it is absolutely clear that they are not renovating the offices of ordinary clerks and officials who have been sitting at broken desks for years, walking on torn linoleum and visiting the crumbling toilets of the regional administration, but specifically the office of the head of the Novgorod region.

 

According to a source of the VChK-OGPU, not only does Dronov, who is accustomed to multi-million kickbacks, want to live very expensively and very richly, but he also needs to approach his "office" (which is essentially a multi-room apartment in the government building) exclusively in "luxury" conditions - the corridor is also subject to complete renovation. But only the corridor that leads to his reception room and personal conference room.

It is worth noting that the current repairs (already the previous one, since Dronov ordered to break everything before the end of the auction) were very good, which can be seen in many stories on local TV. Here, for example, is September 2024.

 

A decent and sustained renovation, which, however, has already been torn down by Dronov.

The bottom line is that we have a potential governor of the Novgorod region in the person of Alexander Dronov, who is absolutely incomprehensible why he is not in office, since all of his "leaders" from Avtodor and subordinates were previously imprisoned. Not having been elected yet, Alexander Dronov is already sucking out the already meager regional budget for a "luxury" renovation of his office (read - a service apartment with an office).

Dronov's greed and commercialism have already manifested themselves not only in the renovation. In March, Dronov was appointed acting governor. In fact, he has time to sit in the chair of the head of the region (which will soon cost 139 thousand rubles - this is two salaries of the average Novgorodian) for the entire second quarter. And now we will reveal the size of the bonuses that Dronov wrote out for himself and his entourage. So, for just one quarter of 2025, the bonuses were as follows: Dronov - 4,549,733 rubles, the head of the governor's administration Andrei Danilov - 3,213,857.94 rubles, deputy governor Stanislav Shultsev (Dronov's right hand in the "road case"), who is in pre-trial detention - 2,434,363 rubles, the minister of transport Konstantin Kuranov (Dronov's left hand in the "road case"), who is in pre-trial detention - 1,237,143.80 rubles. Not bad, right? Considering that just five years ago these were almost their annual salaries (in 2020, Dronov received 6.17 million rubles per year, Danilov - 5.89 million rubles). The official income of the corrupt official Dronov in 2024 is estimated at about 11 million rubles. That is, at to absolute power in the Novgorod region, Alexander Dronov wrote out almost 11.5 million rubles for himself and three of his friends, two of whom are in prison, in just one quarter, which is 14 annual salaries of a successful Novgorodian.

It is noteworthy that after the arrest of his old friend Shultsev, whom he dragged to the region, he cut off absolutely all contacts with his family and even lawyers. He really wants to get into a new office, and even with a new chair. Friendship is friendship, but career and earnings are more important.

It is very important to say that these bonuses were paid from the "stimulation fund". That is, this is money that is intended to raise the salaries of doctors, police officers, teachers and anyone else, just so that people stay in the region (the outflow of population in the region is very noticeable, people are fleeing to neighboring cities). For example, with 11.5 million you can pay 100 doctors 38 thousand rubles more for three months. But, no. Alexander Dronov decided that he and his "team" worked better than all other residents of the Novgorod region, so he should be the one receiving millions.

In general, the further, the worse. Dronov, accustomed to living in grand style, switched to official theft at the expense of his powers. What will happen if he is elected governor, one can only guess.

Roman Trushkin

Source: www.rucriminal.info