Sergey Kiriyenko, First Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of Russia, is preparing to replace Alan Gagloyev, the "president" of the self-proclaimed South Ossetia, with whom he had a conflict.
This was reported by the Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service.
The conflict arose after Kiriyenko was appointed as the overseer of the quasi-republic and began demanding a larger share of kickbacks from the embezzlement of Russian funds allocated for the region's development than his predecessors — Vladislav Surkov and Dmitry Kozak.
Currently, the candidate for the head of the so-called South Ossetia is General-Polkovnik of Police Sergey Bachurin, the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the North Caucasus Federal District.
The formal reason is a scheme of embezzlement of subsidies involving Gagloyev and the "head of government" Konstantin Dzhussoyev. Most of the money allocated for infrastructure was stolen by the local elite.
