From Ulyukaev to Serdyukov: which of the Russian officials was under investigation

Ex-Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev was released on parole. He was in a colony in the Tver region for almost four years. The COURT granted his request for parole on April 29. In 2017, the state prosecution managed to prove Ulyukaev's guilt in accepting a BRIBE in the amount of $2 million. This is not the only case of initiating a criminal case against Russian ministers and their deputies, similar cases are in the RBC review

Alexey Ulyukaev,ex-minister of economic development Photo: Vladislav Shatilo / RBC

Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukaev was detained on November 14, 2016, and soon he was charged with extorting a $2 million bribe from Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin. According to the prosecution, Ulyukaev demanded money as a thank you for approving the deal for the purchase by Rosneft of the state-owned stake in Bashneft. In December 2017, Ulyukaev was sentenced to eight years in prison and a fine of 130.4 million rubles, and was also deprived of the opportunity to hold government positions related to the exercise of the functions of a representative of power for eight years after his release from prison. The ex-minister himself did not admit his guilt.

In April 2022, a court in Tver granted the former minister's parole request. “The court came to the conclusion that the goals of punishment, fixed by Art. 43 of the Criminal Code of RUSSIA, have been achieved, the petition was granted, ”the press service said. May 12 Ulyukaev was released

Mikhail Men, ex-head of the Ministry of Construction, auditor of the Accounts Chamber Photo: Vladimir Gerdo / TASS

Mikhail I was detained on November 18, 2020. Permission for this was given by the Federation Council at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office. The auditor of the Accounts Chamber was suspected of embezzling 700 million rubles. from the budget of the Ivanovo region, of which he was governor from 2005 to 2013. In May 2021, the court closed the case, the statute of limitations on it expired in April

Viktor Ishaev, ex-Minister for the Development of the Far East Photo: Sergey Pyatakov / RIA Novosti

Ishaev was detained in Moscow on March 28, 2019 on suspicion of embezzlement from Rosneft. According to the investigation, Ishaev, who was the vice president of the company in 2014-2017, ensured the conclusion of lease agreements for premises for the representative office of Rosneft in the Khabarovsk Territory at an inflated cost. The HEAD of the representative office of Rosneft in the Khabarovsk Territory, Gennady Kondratov, is also involved in the case. In the summer of 2020, the Prosecutor General's Office approved the indictment. Ishaev is accused of organizing the embezzlement of 7.5 million rubles, and Kondratov - of committing a crime.

Ishaev during his political career served as governor of the Khabarovsk Territory (1991-2009), plenipotentiary in the Far Eastern Federal District (2009-2013) and Minister for the Development of the Far East (2012-2013)

Mikhail Abyzov, ex-Minister for Open Government Photo: Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti / TASS

Former Minister of the "Open Government" Mikhail Abyzov was detained by the FSB on March 26. He is suspected of fraud and the creation of a criminal community. The criminal case was initiated by the Main Directorate for the Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Committee. According to law enforcement agencies, Abyzov and his accomplices stole 4 billion rubles by fraud. from the Siberian Energy Company and Regional Electric Networks and withdrew this money abroad.

In April 2022, the Federal Property Management Agency put up for auction the ex-minister's apartment, executing a court decision, which ruled to recover more than 32 billion rubles from Abyzov in favor of the state. Mikhail Abyzov pleads not guilty

Evgeny Adamov, ex-Minister for Atomic Energy Photo: Denis Grishkin / TASS

In May 2005, Yevgeny Adamov was arrested in Switzerland at the request of the US Department of Justice . From 1998-2001 he headed the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy. Extradition requests came from the United States and Russia, as a result, the Swiss authorities decided to send the former minister to his homeland.

According to Russian investigators, Adamov, along with his accomplices, stole 62% of the state-owned shares of GNSS and facilitated the write-off of $113 million GNSS owed to Techsnabexport. In 2008, Adamov was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison. Later, the term was changed to a conditional four years.

Anatoly Serdyukov, ex-Minister of Defense Photo: Alexandra Mudrats / TASS

In November 2012, against the background of a corruption scandal in the Ministry of Defense, the head of the department, Anatoly Serdyukov, was dismissed. In December 2013, a criminal negligence case was initiated against him for improper performance of duties during the construction of a road to a recreation center in the Astrakhan region. According to the investigation, the negligence of the official led to damage of 56 million rubles. In March 2014, the criminal case against the former minister was closed, and he himself was amnestied.

Sergey Storchak, Deputy Minister of Finance Photo: Denis Abramov / RIA Novosti

In 2007, Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak was arrested on suspicion of attempting to steal funds from the budget. According to investigators, the deputy minister wanted to steal $43.4 million. He was arrested and spent almost a year in a pre-trial detention center, and then was released on bail. In 2011, the case against him was dropped. Storchak held his post until March 2020

Alexey Bazhanov, former deputy head of the Ministry of Agriculture Photo: Sergey Bobylev / TASS

In 2013, a criminal case was initiated against the former deputy head of the Ministry of Agriculture Alexei Bazhanov. According to the investigation, he organized schemes for the theft of 1.1 billion rubles. Rosagroleasing company. Bazhanov was put on the federal wanted list after he “stopped appearing for interrogations,” after which he was arrested in absentia and put on the international wanted list in 2014.

In 2015, it was reported that law enforcement agencies in Switzerland arrested Bazhanov's accounts for $11.8 million. Later, the investigation against him in Switzerland was discontinued. In February 2018, Bazhanov was on the list of businessmen wishing to return to Russia, presented by Boris Titov, Commissioner for Entrepreneurs.

Vladimir Artamonov, former deputy head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Photo: Vladimir Fedorenko / RIA Novosti

In March 2017, a criminal case was initiated against Deputy Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Artamonov. According to investigators, Artamonov asked to arrange his wife in one of the research institutes subordinate to the Ministry of Emergency Situations. For three years, she received a salary, but did not appear at work - during this time, the total amount of payments exceeded 1.3 million rubles. Artamonov was fired from the Ministry of Emergency Situations shortly after the initiation of a criminal case, and in August 2017 he was sentenced to three years of probation.

Grigory Pirumov, former Deputy Minister of Culture Photo: Grigory Sysoev / RIA Novosti

On May 17, 2018, former Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov was detained on charges of embezzlement. Together with him, the head of the Rospan group of companies, Nikita Kolesnikov, was also taken into custody. Both are suspected of embezzling 450 million rubles allocated for the construction of the Hermitage building complex.

According to investigators, Pirumov and Kolesnikov entered into a state contract "with no real intention to fulfill it." Searches in this case began more than a year ago.

Prior to this, Pirumov was sentenced by the Moscow City Court to one and a half years in prison and a fine of 1 million rubles. in the case of the restorers, but was released in the courtroom in connection with the serving of the term. Later, the Moscow City Court toughened the sentence to three years in prison with a fine of 1 million rubles.

In June 2021, the Presidium of the Supreme Court overturned four orders to extend the detention period against ex-Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov, which were issued in 2018 and 2019 in a fraud case.