The Basmanny Court of Moscow, at the request of the Investigative Committee of Russia, on Thursday, May 8, arrested the thirteenth defendant in the case of abuse of power by employees of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation - now the former head of the GUEBiPK, retired police lieutenant general Denis Sugrobova. The tasks of the Main Directorate directly include combating corruption in Russia, preventing and suppressing corruption-related crimes. The First Anti-Corruption Media has compiled a list of anti-corruption agency employees under investigation.
Starting from mid-February 2014, the Investigative Committee opened several criminal cases, combined into one proceeding. Employees of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia are charged with organizing a provocation of a bribe (Article 304 of the Criminal Code), abuse of office (Part 3 of Article 286) and creating a criminal community (Part 3 of Article 210 of the Criminal Code). At the moment, the investigation includes at least 10 episodes.
Of the 13 arrested persons involved in the GUEBiPK case 10 former or current officials of internal affairs bodies and 3 "agents" working "undercover".
All police officers, and these are 7 leaders, including the first person of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and his deputy, have been arrested, one civilian is also in custody, the remaining two are under house arrest.
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Rank — Lieutenant General of Police, pensioner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Position held – Head of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Preventive measure – arrest.
On June 28, 2011, the President of the Russian Federation (then this post was held by Dmitry Medvedev) appointed Sugrobov as head of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
After searches took place on February 14, 2014 in the offices and apartments of several employees of department “B” of the GUEBiPK, the general submitted his resignation, and on February 21 Vladimir Putin relieved him of his position.
On May 7, returning from vacation with his son and wife, the general was detained at a traffic police post in the Volgograd region, then flown to Moscow and on May 8 by the Basmanny Court into custody until July 7.
Sugrobov is accused of creating a criminal community on the basis of the department he heads (Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) “for the purpose of committing serious crimes in order to present the appearance of successful fulfillment of the tasks assigned to the GUEBiPK - combating corruption in Russia, identifying crimes of an economic nature.”
The general does not consider himself guilty, calls the position of the investigation far-fetched and is convinced that he clearly fulfilled the tasks assigned to him by President Putin to ensure the anti-corruption and economic security of the country, and his subordinates “also fought honestly, with dignity and uncompromisingly against corruption.”
According to rumors in the press, Sugrobov, considered a close person of Putin’s chief anti-corruption assistant Evgenia Shkolova, predicted the post of head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Moscow.
2. Boris Kolesnikov
Rank — Major General of Police.
Position held – Deputy Head of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Preventive measure – arrest.
In August 2012, Kolesnikov received the position of deputy head of the GUEBiPK. In November 2013, he was awarded the rank of police major general for his success in service.
A week and a half after the scandal that erupted around the activities of the anti-corruption headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Kolesnikov was summoned to the Investigative Committee for questioning as a witness in the case of provoking a bribe of an FSB employee, and in the investigator’s office Sergei Novikov.
By decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, the period of detention of General Kolesnikov was extended until August 14.
On March 10, Putin dismissed Kolesnikov from his post. He is suspected of abuse of power, provoking bribes and organizing a criminal community. He does not consider himself guilty of the crimes charged.
A few days before Sugrobov’s arrest, Kolesnikov received a traumatic brain injury in the Lefortovo prison; the circumstances of the incident are currently unknown.
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Rank — police colonel.
Position held – Head of Department “B” (detection and suppression of crimes in the public sector) of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Preventive measure – arrest.
February 26. The Investigative Committee suspects Mullayarov of exceeding his authority, provoking a bribe, and organizing a criminal community.
On April 10, after the Basmanny District Court extended the colonel’s arrest until August 14, they say that he was taken by FSB officers to “a certain building,” where, through threats, the security officers forced Mullayarov to write something like a sincere confession, in which, according to PAMI, he repented and expressed readiness to “expose” GUEBiPK officers. However, after a lawyer visited him in prison, Mullayarov renounced this testimony and stated that he wrote it “while in a depressed psycho-emotional state.”
The Investigative Committee considers Mullayarov to be the organizer of the provocation of a bribe against the deputy head of the 6th service of the 9th directorate of the FSB Igor Demin.
4. Alexey Bodnar
Rank — Police Lieutenant Colonel.
Position held – .
Preventive measure – arrest.
5. Ivan Kosourov
Rank — police Major.
Position held – Deputy Head of Directorate “B” of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Preventive measure –arrest.
Both are among the first officers arrested in the case of provoking a bribe to the deputy head of the FSB Internal Security Service (arrested on February 17). Suspected of abuse of power, provoking bribes and participation in an organized criminal community.
6. Evgeny Shermanov
Rank — police Major.
Position held – Deputy Head of Directorate “B” of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Preventive measure – arrest.
Shermanov on March 20 on suspicion of abuse of power. According to investigators, he and Kosourov put pressure on the daughter of the director of the Moscow Herzen Oncology Research Institute Elena Bogoslovskaya and falsified evidence against the deputy director of the institute Sergei Bezyaev.
The official was captured by GUEBiPK employees after receiving 29 million rubles for a guaranteed conclusion of a state contract with Grand Medicine LLC for the supply of expensive medical equipment to the institute. Subsequently, Bezyaev was sentenced to three years by the Savyolovsky Court in Moscow and sent to a colony.
7. Sergey Ponomarev
Rank — Police Lieutenant Colonel.
Position held –.
Preventive measure – arrest.
On March 26, as part of a criminal case that was initiated against Kolesnikov, Kosourov and Klyushkin, Ponomarev was summoned to the Investigative Committee for questioning, where he was detained.
This criminal case was initiated at the request of I. O. Head of the Moscow Region Department of the Federal Registration Service Olga Zhdanova and former employee of Rosreestr Alexey Akchurin, who in June last year were detained by employees of department “B” of the GUEBiPK while receiving 1.3 million rubles for assistance in registering land and real estate in elite areas of the Moscow region.
8. Vitaly Cherednichenko
Rank — police Major.
Position held— Deputy Head of the 15th Department of the Directorate “K” (detection and suppression of corruption crimes) of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Preventive measure – arrest.
Cherednichenko (together with Kolesnikov, Kosourov and Nazarov) is on trial for abuse of power against a member of the Federation Council from the Novgorod region Alexandra Korovnikova and director of the Accounts Chamber department Alexandra Mikhailika(Mikhailik was detained in September 2013, when he received 3 million rubles from Korovnikov for an unscheduled inspection of the FSUE Sport Engineering).
Subsequently, these officials accused the GUEBiPK employees of provoking a bribe and wrote a statement against them.
Also, Cherednichenko, according to investigators, committed illegal actions against a certain entrepreneur Chesnokov, suspected of fraud.
9. Mikhail Nazarov
Rank — police Major.
Position held — Senior Investigative Officer for Particularly Important Cases of Directorate “B” of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Preventive measure — arrest.
He is also involved in a case of inciting a bribe, falsifying evidence and exceeding official authority, leading to grave consequences.
On April 17, he was invited for questioning at the Investigative Committee, where he was detained.
One episode that Nazarov is involved in is related to the case of the former city manager of Smolensk Konstantin Lazarev, who was detained in 2011 on charges of receiving kickbacks for contracts for the improvement of Smolensk for the celebration of the 1150th anniversary of the city. Lazarev was first released on bail, and then acquitted by the court.
Another episode is related to the alleged falsification of evidence against the deputy director of the Herzen Research Institute, Sergei Bezyaev.
10. Sergey Borisovsky
Rank — police captain.
Position held — Senior Investigative Officer for Particularly Important Cases of Directorate “B” of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Preventive measure – arrest.
He is a defendant in a case of abuse of power, initiated at the request of Mikhailik and Korovnikov.
11. Alexey Klyushkin
Job title — agent" GUEBiPK.
Preventive measure – arrest.
According to investigators, Klyushkin is a member of a criminal community organized by General Kolesnikov and specializes in provoking bribes from officials and businessmen. Klyushkin is involved in a case of abuse of power against the head of the Rosreestr department of the Moscow region, Olga Zhdanova. A preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen for him.
12. Sergey Pirozhkov
Job title — "agent" of GUEBiPK.
Preventive measure – House arrest.
According to some reports, Pirozhkov is a former detective officer of the 6th department of the ORB-3 DEB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a retired police major.
He is involved in the case of provoking a bribe to FSB officer Demin. Remanded in custody.
13. Ruslan Chukhlib– “agent” of the GUEBiPK, preventive measure – house arrest.
Chukhlib is a “torpedo”, works undercover and poses as a businessman. He is involved in the case of provoking a bribe against the deputy head of the 6th service of the 9th directorate of the FSB, Igor Demin. It was Chukhlib who handed over the money to Demin, after which he was detained and a high-profile case began against the officers of the GUEBiPK.
Denis Balashov
Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (GUEBiPK MVD of Russia)- an independent structural unit of the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, providing and carrying out the functions of the Ministry for the development and implementation of state policy and legal regulation in the field of economic security of the state, as well as performing other functions in accordance with the Regulations on GUEBiPK, regulatory legal acts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
Until 2011 - Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (DEB MIA of Russia). In 2011, the DEB, in connection with the ongoing reform of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, was renamed the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption (GUEBiPK).
The current head of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is Police Major General Andrei Kurnosenko.
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The main tasks of the Main Directorate include:
- participation in the formation of the main directions of state policy in the field of economic security;
- participation in improving legal regulation in the field of economic security;
- taking, within the scope of their competence, measures to organize the fight against tax and economic crimes;
- organizational and methodological management of the activities of units for combating economic crimes and tax crimes of the main departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in federal districts, ministries of internal affairs, main departments, departments of internal affairs of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, units for combating economic crimes of departments (departments) of internal affairs in railway, water and air transport, departments (departments) of internal affairs in closed administrative-territorial entities, at particularly important and sensitive facilities.
In its activities, the Main Directorate is guided by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal constitutional laws, federal laws, decrees and orders of the President of the Russian Federation, decrees and orders of the Government of the Russian Federation, international treaties of the Russian Federation, regulatory legal acts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the Regulations on Main Directorate.
The Main Directorate is an operational unit of the police and carries out operational investigative activities in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
The work of the Main Directorate is organized on the basis of planning, a combination of unity of command in resolving issues of official activity and collegiality in their discussion, personal responsibility of each employee, federal civil servant and employee for the state of affairs in the assigned area and the implementation of individual instructions.
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This unit was created on March 16, 1937 as part of the Main Police Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR. The adopted regulations on the OBKhSS, in particular, stated that it was created to “ensure the fight against the theft of socialist property in organizations and institutions of state trade, as well as to combat profiteering.” Names in different years - BKhSS, GUBKhSS, GUEP, GUBEP, DEB. In 2008, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the Department was given the functions of combating corruption and organized crime in the economic sphere (the structure included ORB No. 3 (for combating corruption) and ORB No. 10 (for combating organized crime in the economic sphere).
As the central apparatus, it supervises the UBEP (department for combating economic crimes) and the UNP (department for tax crimes), which are structurally part of the regional internal affairs bodies.
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Acting head of the "T" department of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs Zakharchenko was arrested by the court until November 8
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MOSCOW, September 10 - RAPSI, Oleg Sivozhelezov. The Presnensky Court of Moscow chose a preventive measure in the form of detention in relation to the acting head of department "T" of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption (GUEBiPK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) of Russia, Dmitry Zakharchenko, accused of abuse of power, obstruction of a preliminary investigation and receiving a bribe on an especially large scale, a RAPSI correspondent reported from the courtroom on Saturday.
Thus, the court granted the investigator’s request to arrest Zakharchenko until November 8.
The defense of the accused objected to the choice of a preventive measure in the form of detention. Lawyer Yuri Novikov asked the court to choose alternative measures - house arrest at Zakharchenko’s actual place of residence, or bail in the amount of 70 million rubles. Novikov proposed his candidacy to the court as a pledgor. Also at the meeting, information about the identity of the accused was announced, according to which the acting head of the “T” department of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs has three higher educations and is a candidate of economic sciences. In addition, Zakharchenko is dependent on two young children.
As follows from the materials announced by the court, on September 8, a criminal case was opened against Zakharchenko on the grounds of committing crimes under Part 1 of Article 285 and Part 3 of Article 294 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - abuse of official powers and obstruction of the investigation of the case. A day later, on September 9, a criminal case was opened for receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), after which all three episodes were combined into one case.
According to the FSB certificate presented in the case materials, an incomplete circle of persons in the case has currently been identified. As established by operational employees of the department, the acting head of the “T” department of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs patronized the heads of several commercial structures, receiving large bribes from them. At today's meeting, we were talking about illegal monetary reward in the amount of 7 million rubles, while the investigation allows for the identification of other episodes of bribery in the future.
Earlier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed the fact of a joint event between the FSB and the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as a result of which the acting head of Directorate “T” of the GUEBiPK was detained.
Based on the case materials, as a result of searches in the car and one of the apartments, a large amount of cash was found. At the meeting, the investigator announced the amount of money seized from the accused in the amount of about 9 billion rubles.
Zakharchenko himself denies any relation to the seized funds.
“There was no money in my hands, the fact that money was transferred to me was not recorded. The funds seized from the car belong to the owner of the car, who is an entrepreneur, and I had not been to the apartment of my married adult sister, where money was also found,” - the accused objected to the investigators' arguments.
Directorate “T” of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs, of which Zakharchenko is acting, oversees the fuel and energy unit
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The Presnensky Court of Moscow chose a preventive measure in the form of detention in relation to the acting head of department "T" of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption (GUEBiPK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) of Russia Dmitry Zakharchenko, accused of abuse of power, obstruction of a preliminary investigation and receiving a bribe on an especially large scale, a RAPSI correspondent reported from the courtroom on Saturday.
The detention of the acting head of the “T” department of the GUEBiPK of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Dmitry Zakharchenko, was carried out on Friday evening during a joint operation of several FSB units. The colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs set a record for the amount of money seized: during searches at Zakharchenko’s place. On September 10, the court arrested Zakharchenko until November 8. The deputy head of the anti-corruption headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is charged with receiving a bribe of 7 million rubles. (Article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), as well as creating obstacles to the preliminary investigation (Article 294 of the Criminal Code).
Zakharchenko heads the department that was involved in the fight against economic crime in the fuel and energy sector and the chemical industry. The detention of a high-ranking police officer is connected with several high-profile criminal cases, sources in law enforcement agencies told Novaya Gazeta. The police colonel was charged with abuse of power, obstruction of justice and the conduct of a preliminary investigation, and taking a bribe.
“About 30 operatives from different divisions of the FSB took part in the searches of Zakharchenko. We brought together people from different services so that no one would have the desire to take too much,” jokes Novaya Gazeta’s source in the FSB.
He noted that the most active participation in the development of Zakharchenko was taken by the “M” department of the FSB of Russia (it, among other things, supervises the Ministry of Internal Affairs), as well as the Internal Security Department of the FSB and the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Probably, when the intelligence officers went to search, they already had operational information about what money they would find on the police colonel.
The publication's interlocutors noted that Zakharchenko came to the attention of operatives in connection with the case against Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy). In August, the first deputy of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for Moscow, Denis Nikandrov, as well as the head of the internal security department of the Investigative Committee, Mikhail Maksimenko, together with deputy Alexander Lamonov, were already arrested in this case. The case against employees of the Investigative Committee was also supported by the “M” department of the FSB. At the same time, operatives began to work out all possible connections of Shakro Molodoy and put a number of high-ranking law enforcement officials on wiretapping.
Let us remind you that on September 9, searches were carried out in Zakharchenko’s office, car and apartment. “They found a large amount of cash in his car. Today, the FSB conducted a search in his apartment,” a source familiar with the investigation told RIA Novosti. The agency’s interlocutor explained that “Zakharchenko was detained in an old case.” He did not specify what kind of case he was talking about.
$170 thousand and €5 thousand were found in the colonel’s office. More than $120 million, as well as several hundred million rubles, were found in the apartment of the arrestee’s sister on Michurinsky Prospekt. The total amount of cash found is about 8 billion rubles. Photos of the found money, packed in dozens of checkered bags and boxes, appeared in the media. As the investigator said during the hearing in the Presnensky court, the colonel’s official income over the past few years did not exceed 3 million rubles.
During the trial, the Interior Ministry colonel denied his involvement in the money found in his sister’s apartment. He also called the wiretapping data on his phone, which is on file, a “joke.”
According to Novaya, the money found on Zakharchenko during the search has nothing to do with the world of thieves. People who participated in the searches said that when asked where the money came from, the policeman replied: “The bankers gave it for safekeeping.”
In court, when Zakharchenko was chosen as a preventive measure, he also stated that the money was not his, “neither in fact nor in theory.” “I was not in this apartment. I didn't take a bribe. I didn’t have any money in my hands,” he noted, writes Kommersant.
In Zakharchenko’s office, materials from a criminal case were found, in the investigation of which, according to the prosecution, the colonel tried to interfere. According to TASS, the colonel was found with documents related to the offshore Kamestra Enterprises Ltd. The details of the offshore beneficiary indicated in the documents completely coincide with the name and surname of the ex-owner of Svyaznoy Bank Maxim Nogotkov. The investigation is establishing the authenticity of the documents, the agency’s source clarified.
The money found during searches of Dmitry Zakharchenko is related to the case of theft at Nota Bank, whose license was revoked at the end of 2015. The bank's management is today accused of stealing 26 billion rubles from a credit institution. The bank's main corporate clients were enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex. However, for a long time, the bank's management issued non-repayable loans to affiliated companies. When the bank's financial situation worsened, but before the provisional administration of the Central Bank was introduced into it, the process of asset withdrawal became widespread. As one of the former top managers of Nota Bank told Novaya, shortly before the license was revoked, marginal individuals were observed near the bank’s ATMs, withdrawing money using “fraudulent” credit cards.” Probably, part of this cash was transferred to the storage of the acting head of the “T” department of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
According to Novaya Gazeta’s sources in the FSB, Dmitry Zakharchenko was well acquainted with the bank’s former financial director Galina Marchukova. It is possible that it was he who warned the bank’s management about the operational investigative measures being prepared against them. “My client knew Marchukov, but did not warn him about the searches and did not investigate the case,” Zakharchenko’s lawyer Yuri Novikov told TASS. The lawyer also told the court that a disk with the inscription “Banknote” and not “Nota Bank” was found in the colonel’s office. “It was found somewhere behind the bedside table, supposedly there were materials on it about the case. But imagine that a manager of this level kept something under the baseboard,” the lawyer explained.
According to Novaya, before heading the “T” department, Zakharchenko headed the 24th department, which belonged to the “M” department of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (the fight against economic crimes in the fields of mechanical engineering and metallurgy). This department specialized in crimes in the military-industrial complex, in sensitive facilities and closed administrative territories. That is, Zakharchenko had to know Nota Bank’s clients well and the bank itself, which worked with their money, sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs told the publication.
According to INTERFAX.RU, Zakharchenko is also investigating the former general director of VimpelCom, Mikhail Slobodin. As the investigation established, the colonel informed the top manager about the operational development in the bribery case in the Komi Republic. “After this, Slobodin hastily left the territory of Russia,” the agency quotes the interlocutor as saying.
According to Life, in connection with the bribery case, former Komi Governor Vyacheslav Gaizer and his subordinates at the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs received a request for information about Slobodin. “Zakharchenko was aware of all the operational activities carried out against major officials and businessmen, and used this for personal gain,” a source close to the investigation told INTERFAX.RU.
Zakharchenko also helped the escape of designer Fatima Misikova, in whom the investigation became interested after a shootout on Rochdelskaya Street, after which thief in law Shakro Molodoy was arrested, and then the head of the department of the RF IC, Mikhail Maksimenko, and the deputy head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the RF IC in Moscow, Denis Nikandrov. Misikova, according to a Rosbalt agency source in law enforcement agencies, had known Zakharchenko for a long time, and he told her about a possible detention. As a result, the designer fled the country, faking her death, and in July 2016, the investigation learned about the escape and put Misikova on the wanted list.
Zakharchenko did not admit his guilt and argued at the trial that he was more interested in establishing the truth than the investigation. However, the Presnensky Court of Moscow arrested the policeman on September 10, after which Zakharchenko’s defense promised to appeal the decision.