Small terms, small amounts of fines, other shoals - yes. There is a lot to criticize in this process.
But for me, the most important jamb is the well-known way to send everyone and everything. How? Yes, like this …
Here's a fresh example
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has put Sergei Slastikhin on the international wanted list. He is the head of a contractor company for the state corporation Roscosmos.
According to the investigation, at the moment Slastikhin is in the United States of America. He was accused of fraudulent activities worth hundreds of millions of rubles.
Today the company, the head of which is Sergey Slastikhin, is bankrupt. On her official website there is information that she worked on several projects at once for Roscosmos. Note that the company even had access to state secrets.
At Roskosmos, an anonymous source told the Russian media that the state corporation had stopped working with Slastikhin's companies several years ago. However, this did not prevent the businessman from stealing millions of state rubles.
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It is curious that, despite the fact that the investigation has information about where Sergei Slastikhin may be today, even his lawyer cannot contact him.
Although Roscosmos is not to blame for what happened, this story will not benefit its image.
Why is that?
Similar precedents have happened many times before. There is some kind of person who stole a billion. The RF IC learns some facts, starts an investigation. However, so far the facts are not enough - no one is being detained, but this is already spreading in the media or word of mouth. The person collects money and escapes to Israel, England or the USA. All! Sits there and spends our money on a luxurious life. No one will ever give it away, especially at a modern international stop.
Is that okay? Is there some kind of world practice in preventing this, or is it just extradition that they save? Nothing shines for us here unambiguously.
Here's another fresh example for you
A few hours before the arrest, the former head of Rosalkogolregulirovanie Igor Chuyan left Russia, who was dismissed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on July 11. Chuyan flew to Israel, having previously said goodbye to his bodyguards and letting them know that he did not intend to return from the Promised Land.
Chuyan's emigration can be easily explained - according to PASMI, President Vladimir Putin personally ordered the dismissal of the head of the alcohol department, to whom the FSB presented materials where Igor Chuyan appears as a hardened corrupt official who laundered hundreds of billions of rubles in the trade in vodka, wine and beer.
Mikhail Yurevich: long treatment
For some time in Israel, the former governor of the Chelyabinsk region, Mikhail Yurevich, was hiding from Russian investigators - in Russia he was accused of taking bribes in the amount of 26 million rubles from the regional health minister, who paid for promotion, as well as incitement to libel.
A criminal case against Yurevich was opened in March 2017, when he was being treated in Israel. The ex-governor denies his guilt, but he is in no hurry to return to his native land - it is known that Yurevich moved to the UK, where he continued his treatment. Also, the media got information about Yurevich's request for political asylum allegedly received by the British authorities, but he himself hastily denied this information.
For about a year, there has been no significant progress in the Yurevich case: the accused was arrested in absentia and put on the international wanted list, while he himself is still abroad.
Alexey Kuznetsov: awaiting extradition
In 2010, a major criminal case began to be investigated in the Moscow region, the main person involved in which was the former Minister of Finance of the Moscow Region, Alexei Kuznetsov. Together with Kuznetsov, his ex-wife Zhanna Bulakh, deputy Valery Nosov and ex-head of the Moscow Investment Trust Company Vladislav Telepnev received the status of the accused. The investigation found that from 2005 to 2008, the accomplices stole more than 14 billion rubles from the regional budget using various fraudulent schemes.
The fraudsters managed to withdraw a significant part of their funds abroad. Kuznetsov himself took refuge in France, where several expensive real estate objects were registered in his name. In 2012, the ex-minister was put on the international wanted list, after which the French authorities detained the official, and also at the request of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office arrested his property, starting extradition. The process has been going on for five years already - French law enforcement officers previously reported that they had no claims against Kuznetsov and detained him only to execute an Interpol order.
In April last year, the Investigative Committee of Russia published a message in which it expressed outrage at the delay in extradition, seeing this as a political motive, but the case did not get off the ground. Meanwhile, in Russia, ex-wife of Kuznetsov, Zhanna Bulakh, was convicted in absentia, who also left the country and lives in the United States, where she has citizenship and remains inaccessible to the law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation.
Alexey Mitrofanov: did not dare to return
State Duma deputy from United Russia Alexei Mitrofanov came to the attention of the siloviki in 2012, when he was suspected of fraud - the parliamentarian promised a capital businessman for $ 200 thousand to resolve the issue in the Arbitration Court, where the "client" was suing Solntsevskaya gangs. Later, a pensioner complained about Mitrofanov, who accused the deputy of a bribe of 2 million rubles.
At first, Mitrofanov was held in criminal cases only as a witness, since he was protected from the harassment of the investigation by his deputy immunity. However, in 2014, the immunity was removed from the parliamentarian. Having lost his parliamentary immunity, Mitrofanov immediately left Russia, going to Croatia for treatment.
In 2016, Alexey Mitrofanov tried to return by offering the investigation a deal - a frank confession in exchange for a guarantee that he would not be locked up after stepping off the plane. The investigation supported the deal, but the ex-deputy (he was deprived of his mandate for absenteeism) did not have the courage. Now Mitrofanov is still hiding abroad, being on the international wanted list.
Ilya Ponomarev: political waste
The expulsion of opposition deputy Ilya Ponomarev from the State Duma, and then from Russia, dragged on for several years. At first, he was deprived of the right to vote in parliament because of the statement "crooks and thieves" addressed to his fellow deputies - this happened in September 2012. Then he was made a witness in the case of the riots on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow in May 2012 - his assistant Leonid Razvozzhaev confessed to preparing the riots.
In 2013, the investigating authorities discovered signs of embezzlement of funds from the Skolkovo Foundation, suspicion fell on the senior vice president of Skolkovo, Alexei Beltyukov. In 2014, Ponomarev became a defendant in the case, who was accused of complicity in the embezzlement of 22 million rubles of Skolkovo funds. According to the investigators, in 2010 the deputy signed an agreement with Skolkovo on carrying out some scientific work and giving a course of lectures, earning $ 750,000 on this. In April of the same year, the deputy was deprived of immunity.
When the immunity was lifted, Ponomarev was in the United States, from where he declared his innocence and the political overtones of the criminal case. In response, he was put on the international wanted list.
In 2016, Ponomarev, together with Alexei Mitrofanov, was deprived of his deputy's status. By that time, the ex-deputy had completely repaid the damage to Skolkovo, but the criminal case against him had not yet been closed. Now Ponomarev lives in Kiev, where he received a temporary residence permit.
The Glushkov Brothers: Inhospitable Georgia
The next deputies who fled from Russia (as it turned out, not for long) from charges of corruption, of a lower rank, are Vladimir Glushkov, a member of the Zemsky Assembly of the Balakhninsky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, and his brother Alexander Glushkov, with a mandate as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. Both brothers were detained in Georgia in early August. Earlier, they were put on the international wanted list by Interpol.
Upon their return to the Nizhny Novgorod region, the fugitives are expected to be arrested, investigated and tried. The Glushkovs are accused of taking a bribe worth 6 million rubles - Alexander received a bribe, and Vladimir acted as an intermediary - as well as in an episode of fraud with municipal property. According to the investigation, the deputies organized a false reconstruction of the bus station in Balakhna, demolished most of the buildings, destroying the transport hub, and built a shopping center on this site. The amount of damage to the municipality was about 100 million rubles.
Irina Baranova: a judge for the raiders
At the end of 2013, the judge of the Moscow Arbitration Court, Irina Baranova, flew to the United States for childbirth. A month later, in January 2014, the head of the TFR, Alexander Bastrykin, asked the Higher Qualification Collegium of Judges for consent to initiate a criminal case against Baranova on the fact of cooperation with the raiders.
Investigating the case of the raider seizure of house number 3 on Gogolevsky Boulevard in Moscow (920 sq. Meters, $ 50 million), law enforcement officers learned that it was judge Baranova who helped the former owners of the building by deceit to recover their property after the sale, advising them to bribe their colleague, the judge. which considered the case. For her services, Baranova received 100 thousand euros.
Bastrykin had been waiting almost two years for permission from the VKKS to initiate proceedings against Irina Baranova. During this time, the fugitive judge managed to give birth to a son in the United States. In 2016, the TFR announced its intention to put Baranova on the international wanted list. The judge is still at large.
Alexey Dushutin: from house arrest
On August 9, the metropolitan police asked the Tverskoy Court of Moscow to arrest in absentia the former general director of one of the companies of the notorious Oboronservis (now liquidated) Alexei Dushutin. Dushutin headed the Moscow Military Construction Department and was accused of attempted fraud - he tried to sell the VSUM construction base for 11 million rubles at a real cost of about 140 million rubles.
It's funny, but it was this criminal case that helped Dushutin escape, since he had already been sentenced to four years in prison for the illegal sale of 17 VSUM objects with damage of 400 million rubles, but released from jail in connection with a new investigation. For almost six years (the criminal prosecution of Dushutin began in 2011), the top manager of Oboronservis was in custody, and only in the summer of 2017 his lawyers were able to convince the court to change the measure of restraint to house arrest due to the presence of several diseases acquired in the pre-trial detention center.
After leaving the pre-trial detention center, Dushutin did not waste time and almost immediately escaped from house arrest. He was put on the federal wanted list, but unsuccessfully - according to operational data, the fugitive lives with his parents in Canada. If the Tverskoy court meets the police, then Dushutin will be put on the international wanted list.
Sergey Sapelnikov: disappeared without permission
In June 2013, the Accounts Chamber revealed serious violations in Rosreestr - the department spent more than 42 billion rubles to create a cadastral registration system, but almost half of the amount was spent in violation of the law, and the system was never completed. The main complaints of the inspectors were caused by IT projects, all work in the field of which was accepted by the deputy head of Rosreestr Sergey Sapelnikov.
In September of the same year, it became known that Sapelnikov had left the country without waiting for the anti-corruption check to turn into a criminal case. Without waiting for a summons for interrogation, the official drove to Belarus, and then to Ukraine. Note that Sapelnikov is a carrier of state secrets of the first category and had to obtain permission from the special services to leave. Since 2013, there has been no rumor or spirit from the fugitive.
Alexander Nistratov: the scapegoat
At the beginning of the year, Moscow completed a criminal case on real estate fraud of OJSC Kvant-N, which was of interest to Roscosmos, but with the help of corrupt officials in the Federal Property Management Agency and the Presidential Property Management Department, it turned out to be a shell company with offshore owners sold at a bargain price.
The court found ex-director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Center for Financial and Legal Support of the Administrative Department of the President of the Russian Federation Nikolai Skrypnikov, his deputy, ex-general director of OJSC Kvant-N Andrei Grishin and two businessmen guilty of fraud with billions of dollars in damage. The convicts were sentenced to a punishment ranging from three and a half to six and a half years in a general regime colony.
Three more people were involved in the fraud - the former head of the UDP, Vladimir Kozhin, the ex-head of the Federal Property Management Agency, Yuri Petrov, and Petrov's assistant, Alexander Nistratov. The signatures of the first and second were on all documents, with the help of which the property of "Kvant-N" was taken out of the control of Roscosmos and the Federal Property Management Agency and sold, but both remained only in the status of witnesses, shifting all the blame onto Skrypnikov and Nistratov.
Alexander Nistratov is considered the organizer of the entire fraudulent scheme, but it was not possible to punish him, since the official left Russia in the summer of 2015 before the criminal case was initiated and lives in the United States.
Dagestani fugitives: emirates are more reliable than Chechnya
Most of the Dagestani officials, who fell under the sweep as a result of a large-scale regional anti-corruption campaign, did not even try to hide from law enforcement officers, as they were confident in their own invulnerability or adequately assessed their capabilities. But there were also exceptions.
At the end of May, security officials came to search the house of Magomed Makhachev, head of the bureau of medical and social expertise in Dagestan, but the owner of the house was not found. The official, along with a group of accomplices from among his subordinates, was suspected of selling fake disability certificates to local residents who received benefits from the budget based on fake certificates. There are hundreds of bribes and forged documents.
At first, investigators suspected that Makhachev had fled abroad, presumably to Ukraine. Accusing the official in absentia of bribery, forgery and fraud, the investigation put him on the international wanted list. Then, at the end of July, law enforcement officers detained Makhachev's brother, Ashik, making him a defendant in the case of forged certificates and additionally threatening him with a serious charge of organizing a criminal community. Either the international search was triggered, or the brother helped, but on August 2, Magomed Makhachev was detained in Grozny.
The next fugitive - the son-in-law of the former Minister of Health of Dagestan Tanki Ibragimov - will be dragged out of the United Arab Emirates by the security forces. Tanka Ibragimov himself has already been arrested, accused of organizing large cartel purchases, embezzlement in the amount of more than 100 million rubles and the creation of an organized criminal group. His son-in-law is considered to be involved in the ex-minister's dark affairs.
I think this is not a complete list of famous officials who stole a lot of money and are feasting on it abroad now. Why shouldn't the investigation be planned in such a way that at least to put under house arrest suspects who stole billions and who have a lot of connections. Isn't it so difficult to assume that they will hide from the ends? They always explain to me - “it’s not allowed, everything is according to the law, the procedural norms work so slowly, nothing can be done, this is not 37”.
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