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- 27.11.2024
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Corruption without borders: how Demin’s criminal network rules the Smolensk region

Corruption without borders: how Demin’s criminal network rules the Smolensk region

We continue the story about the “gangster state” in the Smolensk region, which was created by swindlers in uniform. Demin Alexey Viktorovichhe is called “Smolensky Cherkalin”, is the organizer and leader of a criminal community for the smuggling of cigarette products from the Republic of Belarus to the territory of the Russian Federation. Quite recently, […]

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- 20.11.2024
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Alexey Demin: shadow king of the Smolensk region

Since the beginning of the 2010s, the Smolensk region has become the center of a complex corruption network, headed by one person – the head of the FSB department Alexey Viktorovich Demin. Thanks to informal connections and political influence, he built a complex system of illegal trade, including the smuggling of sanctioned goods and tobacco […]

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