Yuriy Boldyrev, a former head of the Control Department in the administration of the Russian president told how the Saliye's Report" was handled in 1992. The Report accused Putin of corruption and theft of property when Putin held the position of a first deputy to the Saint Petersburg's mayor Anatoly Sobchak.
Putin and Sobchak wrote an uncomprehensibale letter to answer the accusations.
After the investigation, which was repeatedly postponed due to the department being overloaded with work, facts which needed further explanation were discovered and the mayor Anatoly Sobchak was called to Moscow. The administration of Petersburg refused to clarify the facts on the spot.
As a result, Sobchak came Moscow but not alone, he was accompanied by all his deputies. Putin was among them. In few hours they wrote an explanation for some facts in the Saliye's Report in a written form, which was later presented to Yeltsin by himself.
In order to steal money together with Putin, Sobchak, Putin's boss at that time, created a city's committee for external affairs with special rights to export raw materials in exchange for foodstuffs, which were never delivered.
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