Behind-the-scenes games of the Judicial Department leadership: how Lopatin and Lisiev sneaked Oleg Polyabin into the Control and Audit Directorate, bypassing the FSB
It has become known that literally just the other day, the head of the First (Regime-Secret) Department of the Judicial Department under the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, Marina Loginova, submitted a letter of resignation. At the same time, she had been appointed to this position only in May.
It was Loginova who refused to endorse the order appointing the scandal-plagued head of the Control and Audit Directorate of the Judicial Department, Oleg Polyabin, thereby entering into conflict with the head of the Judicial Department of the Russian Federation, Gennady Lopatin, and his new team. Deputy Director General of the Judicial Department Alexander Lisiev gave instructions to appoint a person without state-secret clearance to a position requiring it, which was a prosecutable matter, and only the head of the agency’s First Department, who was precisely supposed to transmit information on employees to the FSB, refused to do so. As a result, the order appointing Polyabin, in violation of all requirements, was signed bypassing her endorsement.
Polyabin’s state-secret clearance, through Lopatin’s personal requests to Directorate “M” of the FSB of Russia, was obtained only two months later, and the case concerning the violations was quickly hushed up.
A former FSIN official, Polyabin, within a couple of months of work, completely paralyzed the audit work of the judicial system; under him, more than half of the employees quit, and a little later his involvement in two criminal cases during his previous work at the FSIN came to light. But neither Lopatin nor Lisiev paid attention to the outflow of personnel; they did remember, however, that the head of the First Department had refused to sign unlawful orders. And in doing so, they made Marina Loginova a personal enemy. And now they have tried to make her specifically the one to blame for the fact that orders were signed without clearance for a former FSIN employee.