When Seryosha returned to Moscow with a popular project, his officialdom was once again a topic of conversation.
The cooperation agreement signed with Volkswagen this time not only gave Gorbachev face, but also made a lot of money for the Ministry of Automobile Industry, which has always had a good relationship with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, and, most importantly, the Soviet Foreign Trade Bank also reached into the newly established joint venture.
Now in Soviet officialdom, rich is the boss.
As the top leader of a department, if you can only bring a basic salary to your subordinates, then you will definitely be despised by your subordinates.
A leader like Seryosha who eats meat himself and gives his subordinates some soup is definitely the leader in Moscow officialdom who wants people to follow the most.
Over the past few years, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Communist Youth League system have always been the best-treated departments in Moscow.
Many cadres from other departments want to come in.
Because as long as you work in this department for a year or two, you basically have a house and a car.
Of course, these benefits are not issued directly to the people below, but in the form of personal loans.
However, the internal staff of these two departments know that in addition to their salaries, there will be some subsidies and benefits every month, and this money is just enough to repay these loans, so basically, as long as they enter these two departments, they can wait for retirement without worry.
Compared with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Communist Youth League system, some departments are too inadequate.
For example, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Justice and other institutions that listen to Ligachev the most have basically no income other than the basic salary.
In this era of skyrocketing prices, this amount of money is really not enough.
Ligachev knew the reason for this, that is, the power of the lower departments was too great.
So big that even he, the secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, has to look up to people.
This made Ligachev very angry, so after a deep conversation with Gorbachev, Ligachev planned to carry on the unfinished business of Secretary Andropov.
So, without warning, the Uzbek corruption case, which had been suspended for many years, was restarted.
Ligachev wanted to take over the opportunity to rectify the atmosphere of Soviet officialdom, and at the same time to take back the excessive power in the hands of the ministries and commissions below.
But go directly to the ministries and commissions below, and if you don't know what kind of Ukrainian soap incident will happen.
Therefore, to restart those cases that have not been resolved in the past, one can knock on the mountain and suppress the tiger, and the other can pull out the radish and bring out the mud, and clean up the cadre team well.
So not long after Seryosha returned to Moscow, news came from within the KGB that the judicial department under the control of Ligachev had taken all the files of the Brezhnev era from the KGB, such as the Uzbek case and the maritime case, and wanted to reopen the investigation of the case.
Seryosha did not expect Ligachev to do this, considering that many officials were implicated in the Uzbek case back then, and most of them have now left important jobs.
Gromyko, the last to remain in the Politburo during the Brezhnev era, had just announced his resignation and returned home to live out his old age.
Those involved in the case are now either placed in idle jobs waiting for retirement or have retired.
They are now veritable soft persimmons, and only occasionally when there are some important activities, these people will come out as old comrades, and Ligachev actually wants to move these people, what do they want to do Although Seryosha was wary of Ligachev's plan, he didn't have any good plans for a while, so he could only take one step at a time.
However, Seryosha did contact his old friend Chubanov and asked him to restrain a little lately.
Having left the post of First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Chubanov's official fortunes ended there.
However, with the money that Seryosha helped him invest in the past, Chubanov lived a comfortable life, and he is now separated from Brezhnev's daughter Galina and lives happily as a bachelor, living in a resort like Sochi all year round.
Occasionally, I will go abroad to play, and my small life is also moisturizing.
After receiving a call from Seryosha, although Chubanov promised well, he didn't take it to heart.
How many years have passed since the Uzbek case, besides, Chubanov did not take a penny in Uzbekistan at the beginning, and all his money was earned by Seryosha for his investment, at most, it was embezzled from the funds of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and then Chubanov quickly made up for it.
Since he met Seryosha, Churbanov's vision has been high, when he just married Galina, he would happily accept a high-end carpet when others gave him, until later, Seryosha helped him earn millions of dollars in one day, he knew what it meant to be rich, and now Chubanov's view of money has long changed.
He could afford to buy anything he liked, so why should he be afraid to take bribes Chubanov felt that if anyone really investigated him, they should find nothing.
Except for a few small gifts he received in the early years, there was nothing unpleasant.
At that time, Andropov's campaign to rectify the atmosphere of officialdom was so fierce, and he Churbanov was just demoted, what else could he do.
After Chubanov ended his phone call with Seryosha, he continued to live his own life.
In Sochi, Chubanov lived a drunken life every day, drank small wines, played small cards, and when he was bored, he drove his yacht to the sea to fish, and occasionally went skiing.
Until one day, the prosecutor from Moscow suddenly came here to visit him.
"Comrade Chubanov, we were sent by the Moscow procuratorate, and we want to ask you for some information" A group of uninvited guests knocked on the door of Chubanov's villa, and then as soon as they entered the door, they first glanced at the furnishings in the villa, and then unceremoniously raised the camera in their hands and began to take pictures.
"What are you doing, this is my home," Chulbanov asked, a little angrily after waking up from a hangover and still dizzy.
"Don't be nervous, Comrade Chulbanov, we just want to come to you to find out some of the circumstances of your investigation and handling of the Uzbek case back then," said a forty-year-old prosecutor headed by him.
Only then did Chubanov remember Seryosha's warning, and the wine woke up almost immediately.
He looked at the prosecutors who were taking pictures back and forth in the room, and then said in an atmospheric manner: "What are you doing here, investigating me?"
"Chulbanov, is this villa your private property?"
the prosecutor suddenly asked.
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"Of course," Chubanov replied with a sense of confidence.
"But how can your pension afford such a luxurious villa," the prosecutor asked again.
"You are not investigating the Uzbek case, why did you ask me about it, okay, then I will tell you, I responded to the call of General Secretary Gorbachev, voluntarily resigned from my job and joined the business world, all this money was earned back by myself, now you guys get out of here" Chubanov reprimanded unceremoniously. t1706231537: