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Former head of Rosgranitsa Bezdelov denies guilt in the theft of 490 million rubles of budget fundsContext
MOSCOW, February 15 - RAPSI, Oleg Sivozhelezov.
Today, at a hearing in the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow, an indictment was heard in the framework of a joint criminal case of theft in Rosgranitsa.
“In the wording in which the document was read by the prosecutor, it caused the disagreement of all the defendants,” said Boris Khaitovich’s lawyer Alexey Semenov.
Earlier, in July 2016, the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation approved an indictment in the case of fraudulent theft of budget funds in the amount of about 490 million rubles allocated for the improvement of the state border in the Adler region. The defendants in this criminal case are Boris Khaitovich, Alexander Kazartsev, Sergei Kozlenkov, Evgeniy Chaika, Nikolai Anfinogenov, Zurab Katamadze and Sergei Sazonov. The criminal case against Oleg Senkevich, who was put on the wanted list, was separated into separate proceedings and suspended.
“Depending on the role of each, they are accused of participation in a criminal community, fraud, legalization of funds or other property acquired by a person as a result of committing a crime,” the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office previously reported.
The indictment in the criminal case against the former head of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Bezdelov, was approved by the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in November last year. Bezdelov is accused of committing crimes under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud) and Part 3 of Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of a criminal community). According to the preliminary investigation, in 2009, Bezdelov, together with the head of the Federal State Institution “Directorate for the Construction and Operation of Rosgranitsa Facilities” Oleg Senkevich and the head of the Directorate for the Development of State Border Facilities and the Administration of Checkpoints of the Rosgranitsa Danila Vavilov, created a criminal community. Bezdelov’s deputy, Khaitovich, as well as a number of senior employees of Rosgranstroi and general directors of controlled commercial organizations were also involved in its activities. Law enforcement agencies believe that between September 2009 and May 2013, alleged members of a criminal community committed the theft of budget funds in the amount of 490 million rubles, allocated by the state for the design, reconstruction, construction, equipment and other arrangement of checkpoints across the state border, and subsequent legalization of the specified amount.
The ex-head of Rosgranitsa denies his guilt, his lawyer Boris Kozhemyakin previously explained that work on the arrangement of the border crossing in the Adler area was completed, and as a result of proceedings in arbitration courts initiated by Bezdelov, about 823 million rubles were returned to the treasury from unscrupulous contractors at the initial price of the contract is about 1 billion 100 million rubles.
Criminal cases against Bezdelov and others accused of embezzlement of funds during border development on January 31 were combined by the court into one proceeding without returning the materials to the prosecutor's office.
In addition, in the spring of 2016, the Tagansky Court of Moscow handed down sentences against two other defendants in the case - the former head of the capital construction and operation department of Rosgranitsa, Daniil Vavilov, as well as the general director and co-owner of RSU No. 5 LLC, Georgiy Belousov. Both convicts admitted guilt and entered into a pre-trial agreement with the investigation; Vavilov received 4 years in prison for fraud on an especially large scale, and Belousov was sentenced to 3 years.
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The former head of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Bezdelov, did not admit his guilt in organizing a criminal community for the purpose of fraudulently stealing budget funds in the amount of about 490 million rubles allocated for the development of the state border of the Russian Federation, the lawyer of the accused, Boris Kozhemyakin, told RAPSI.
After the real verdict against the former minister and friend of Gaidar Ulyukaev, criminal cases and court decisions against high-ranking officials are proceeding almost twice a week. So the Meshchansky Court of Moscow issued another gift and on December 29, 2017 found the former head of Rosgranitsa Dmitry Bezdelov guilty of fraud in the development of the state border and sentenced him to 9 years in prison in a general regime colony.
Bezdelov’s case is the second corruption case in the last week in which a federal-level official appears: earlier on December 25, the head of Voentelecom, Alexander Davydov, and his accomplices were detained on suspicion of large thefts. They are suspected of having stolen half a billion rubles from the state as part of government contracts with the Ministry of Defense for the supply of routers and supervision of satellite communications.
Bezdelov, like Davydov - this “promising young man” - was appointed deputy director of Rosoboronzakaz in 2005; in August 2008, with the accession of Dmitry Medvedev to the presidency, Bezdelov headed Rosgranitsa. He worked there happily until October 2012, when, in the midst of the Rosoboronservice affair, he “got burned” by missing the deadlines for the delivery of facilities that were supposed to be opened for the 2012 APEC summit in Vladivostok. At a meeting of the board of Rosgranitsa, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin promised the official “fun days.” And in 2013, an audit commission began working in Rosgranitsa, which revealed “serious violations in its activities.” Based on the results of the inspection in September 2013, the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Fraud on an especially large scale”) in connection with the theft of budget funds during the reconstruction of the Adler railway checkpoint in the Krasnodar Territory in 2009-2010. According to investigators, from September 2009 to May 2013, members of the criminal community stole and legalized budget funds in the amount of 1 billion 176 million rubles, allocated for the design, reconstruction, construction, equipment and other arrangement of checkpoints across the state border.
Later, the amount of damage was reduced to 490 million rubles. Some of them, according to investigative authorities, ended up in the accounts of the Agrosoyuz bank, one of the co-owners of which (19% of the authorized capital) in 2010 was the father of the head of Rosgranitsa, Alexander Bezdelov (he left the board of directors of the bank in 2014). According to investigators, Bezdelov, together with the head of the Federal State Institution “Directorate for the Construction and Operation of Rosgranitsa Facilities” Oleg Senkevich and the head of the Department for the Development of State Border Facilities and Administration of the Rosgranitsa Checkpoints Danila Vavilov, created a criminal community with the aim of stealing budget funds. Persons involved in the case are also the former deputy head of Rosgranitsa Boris Khaitovich, ex-head of the Federal State Institution “Directorate for the Construction and Operation of Rosgranitsa Facilities” Sergei Sazonov, his deputy Sergei Kozlenkov, director of CJSC “Valuable Council” Evgeniy Chaika, former director of CJSC “Terminal” Zurab Katamadze, entrepreneur Nikolai Afinogenov, as well as Alexander Kazartsev.
Things took an ugly turn, but then, as we remember from Serdyukov and Vasilyeva, the “bloody regime” was not too bloody and on October 21, 2013, Bezdelov Jr. quickly scribbled a statement “of his own free will,” immediately rushing to Italy for “rest and treatment."
There, on December 9 of the same year, he was caught by a resolution of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia to bring Bezdelov as a defendant under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Later, the ex-official was additionally charged under Art. 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Participation in a criminal community”), and in the fall of 2014, an episode of theft during the reconstruction of the Pogranichny automobile checkpoint in the Primorsky Territory was added to the case.
Of course, he denied all the accusations against him and stated that he was not going to hide from law enforcement agencies and was ready to contact representatives of the investigation, but from Italy and by phone. The investigation was not satisfied with this case, and on December 13, 2013, due to another failure to appear for questioning, he was put on the federal wanted list, and on May 7, 2014, on the international wanted list. On June 24, 2014, the Tver court chose a preventive measure in the form of detention against the former official.
Despite tensions with the West, the Italians did not cover up the accused, and on October 26, 2014, Dmitry Bezdelov was detained by local police at the Palladium Palace Hotel in Rome. A year later - on October 2, 2015 - the Court of Appeal of Rome granted the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and decided to extradite the former head of Rosgranitsa to Russia. On April 5, 2016, Italian authorities extradited Bezdelov to the Russian Federation.
After revealing all the circumstances of the case, on February 2, 2016, Vladimir Putin signed a decree “On the abolition of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border of the Russian Federation,” and the Tagansky Court of Moscow passed sentences against Vavilov and Belousov, who admitted their guilt and entered into a pre-trial agreement with the investigation. Danila Vavilov was sentenced to 4 years in prison for fraud on an especially large scale, Belousov - to 3 years in prison. In relation to Sergei Sazonov, Boris Khaitovich, Zurab Katamadze and Evgeniy Chaika, the court chose a preventive measure in the form of detention, Nikolai Anfinogenov, Sergei Kozlenkov and Alexander Kazartsev - under recognizance not to leave.
In July 2016, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation approved an indictment against the defendants in the case. Of these, only Alexander Kazartsev admitted his partial guilt; the rest, including Dmitry Bezdelov, declared non-involvement in the crimes charged against them. According to the lawyer of the former head of Rosgranitsa, work on the arrangement of the border crossing in the Adler area was completed, following the results of proceedings in arbitration courts initiated by Bezdelov, about 823 million rubles were returned to the treasury from unscrupulous contractors. with an initial contract price of about 1 billion 100 million rubles.
On January 31 of this year, the matter reached Bezdelov himself. The Moscow Meshchansky Court combined the criminal cases against him and his accomplices into one proceeding. As a result, all defendants received real sentences ranging from 2 to 9 years.
The second case that has yet to be brought to court is the case of the general director of Voentelecom JSC Alexander Davydov. According to the investigation materials, the leaders of Voentelecom, when concluding contracts with the Ministry of Defense, used various schemes to significantly inflate the cost of products, as well as receive double payment for the provision of services. For example, the military department paid a million rubles for one router, while its market value did not exceed 350 thousand. By tradition, the business was a family one - the software supplier was Emzior LLC, controlled by the defendants, and the intellectual owner of these developments was the Emzior Technology company, headed by Alexander Davydov’s sister. According to preliminary estimates, Voentelecom top managers stole more than 460 million rubles in just two contracts.
In early December, the first deputy general director of Voentelecom JSC, Oleg Savitsky, and the company’s financial director, Evgeny Zhilkov, were arrested on similar charges. In addition, former adviser to the general director of the joint-stock company Dmitry Semiletov was detained in his apartment in the capital. The searches took place in the office of the head of the Voentelecom support department, Denis Starovoitov. As a result of investigative actions, law enforcement officers seized documents from the Voentelecom office.
It is difficult to say how much longer this trend of defeating corrupt organized crime groups in the ranks of federal officials will last. Let's hope that this will become not only a New Year's tradition, but also the harsh everyday life of our investigative agencies, because nothing has a greater effect on crime prevention than the inevitability of punishment. And until recently, we weren’t doing very well with this, to put it mildly. Moreover, Vasilyeva’s suspended sentences or less than a month in prison gave rise to the rise in popularity of political crooks like Navalny. What is also noteworthy is that in the Rosgranitsa case, most of the stolen property was returned to the state. I would like to believe that such stories will delight us in 2018.
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New Year's verdict: the case of Rosgranitsa December 29th, 2017
The Moscow Meshchansky Court sentenced the former head of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border of the Russian Federation (Rosgranitsa) Dmitry Bezdelov to 9 years in prison.
"Find Bezdelov guilty of committing the crime charged and sentence him to imprisonment for a term of nine years with a fine of one million rubles", summed up judge Olesya Mendeleeva.
The investigation provided indisputable evidence that Bezdelov deliberately embezzled budget funds allocated for the construction of checkpoints across the state border of the Russian Federation. According to investigators, the criminal group he organized also included: Deputy Head of Rosgranitsa Boris Khaitovich, Director of the Federal State Institution “Directorate for Construction and Operation of Rosgranitsa Facilities” Oleg Senkevich, Head of the Department of Capital Construction and Operation of Rosgranitsa, Bezdelov’s close friend Danila Vavilov, Head of the “Directorate for construction and operation of Rosgranitsa facilities" (Rosgranstroy) Sergei Sazonov, his deputy Sergei Kozlenkov, director of the Valuable Council company Evgeniy Chaika, head of the Terminal company Zurab Katamadze, businessmen Nikolai Afinogenov, Alexander Kazartsev.
From September 2009 to May 2013, accomplices stole and legalized budget funds totaling more than 490 million rubles. At first, the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs accused Bezdelov of embezzling 1.1 billion rubles.
Bezdelov's accomplices received from two to eight years in prison. His deputy Khaitovich was sentenced to eight years in a general regime colony and a fine of 750 thousand rubles. Vavilov, who was arrested first, entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement and was sentenced to four years in prison back in March 2016. Senkevich is on the federal wanted list.
Dmitry Aleksandrovich Bezdelov was born on September 11, 1970 in the town of Belinsky, Penza region. Graduated from the Russian Economic Academy named after. G. V. Plekhanova, Candidate of Economic Sciences. Worked as a business consultant in various commercial structures. In 2002, he became director of the department and advisor to the general director of Gazkomplektimpex LLC. In 2003, he was appointed advisor to the general director of OJSC Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern Vladislav Menshchikov. In 2005, he moved to the civil service and became deputy director of the Federal Service for Defense Procurement (Rosoboronzakaz) Andrei Belyaninov. In 2008, he was appointed head of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border of the Russian Federation (Rosgranitsa).
Bezdelov was recommended to Rosgranitsa (and before that to the Almaz-Antey concern to his friend Menshchikov and to the Federal Defense Order Service) by his patron Belyaninov, who by that time had replaced the office of the head of Rosoboronzakaz to the chair of the head of the Federal Customs Service. Belyaninov is an old acquaintance of Alexander Bezdelov, father of Dmitry Bezdelov and co-founder of Commercial Bank Agrosoyuz LLC, through which government funds allocated for the improvement of the border were then channeled.
Block Bezdelov's appointment to Rosgranitsa as " a completely incompetent person in this field"Victor Ivanov, director of the Federal Drug Control Service, tried, but to no avail. Subsequently, Ivanov repeatedly criticized Bezdelov’s activities. On October 21, 2013, the latter was relieved of his post “at his own request” (in fact, it was Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin who achieved the dismissal, also in 2012, publicly stated that Rosgranitsa uses opaque schemes for financing work involving dubious structures) and immediately fled abroad due to gathering clouds.
In December 2013, Bezdelov was put on the federal wanted list, and in May 2014, he was put on the international wanted list. On the night of October 25-26, 2014, he was arrested in Rome, at the Palladium Palace Hotel on Via Gioberti. In April 2016, Italian authorities extradited him to Russia.
On February 2, 2016, Vladimir Putin signed a decree “On the abolition of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border of the Russian Federation.”
Former head of the Federal Agency for State Border Development (Rosgranitsa)
Bezdelov Dmitry Alexandrovich
BiographyBorn September 11, 1970; in 1995 he graduated from the Russian Economic Academy named after. G.V. Plekhanov with a degree in Social and Economic Planning; in 1998 received an academic degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences; co-authored several textbooks on personnel management;
in 2002-2003 worked as the chief advisor to the service of Gazkomplektimpex LLC;
in 2003-2005 served as advisor to the general director of OJSC Air Defense Concern Almaz-Antey;
in 2005-2008 worked as deputy director of the Federal Service for Defense Procurement; By order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated August 5, 2008, he was appointed head of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border of the Russian Federation (resignation on October 21, 2013).
The Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border of the Russian Federation (Rosgranitsa) was created by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of October 11, 2007. The functions of Rosgranitsa include the determination and implementation of state policy for the development of the state border of the Russian Federation, the creation, development and maintenance of checkpoints across the state border Russian Federation and its intersections, as well as the functions of the state customer in this area.
The activities of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border of the Russian Federation are managed by the Government of the Russian Federation.
Compromising evidenceThe ex-head of Rosgranitsa tried to sell a meter of the state border
The Court of Appeal of Rome decided to extradite to the Russian Federation the former head of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border (Rosgranitsa) Dmitry Bezdelov. This decision will be officially announced in the next few days, but the Russian authorities have already been notified of it. In his homeland, Bezdelov is accused by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs of embezzling budget funds and organizing a criminal community. The consideration of the Russian Federation's request for the extradition of Dmitry Bezdelov began in the Italian courts back in February 2015 and lasted for seven months due to the fact that the servants of Themis, who thoroughly examined this issue, asked both the defense and the prosecution to provide the maximum number of documents. The decisive meeting took place in September, and an investigator from the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, which is in charge of the theft case in Rosgranitsa, even arrived from Moscow.
The Italian prosecutor's office has agreed to extradite the former head of Rosgranitsa
Dmitry Bezdelov is accused of embezzling 1 billion rubles. The Italian prosecutor's office in the appeal court in Rome supported the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation for the extradition of the former head of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border (Rosgranitsa) Dmitry Bezdelov, accused of embezzling 1 billion rubles, Kommersant reports. “According to a representative of the Italian prosecutor’s office, the Russian side’s request for the extradition of Mr. Bezdelov must be satisfied,” the publication writes. According to the investigation, Bezdelov, together with his accomplices, is suspected of stealing almost 1 billion rubles from the target program “Development of the State Border of the Russian Federation for 2003-2011” with a total volume of about 150 billion rubles. In 2009, this money was allocated from the budget for the construction of a border checkpoint on the border with Abkhazia, but ultimately ended up in the accounts of Agrosoyuz Bank, the largest beneficiary of which was Bezdelov’s father.
Former agency leaders have been sentenced.
The Moscow Meshchansky Court rendered a verdict in a high-profile case of the theft of about 500 million rubles allocated from the budget for the improvement of the border. The ex-head of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border of the Russian Federation (Rosgranitsy) Dmitry Bezdelov, his former subordinates and businessmen, according to investigators, inflated the volume of work and prices for them, and appropriated the difference. The court found all the defendants guilty. Bezdelov received 9 years in a general regime colony, his accomplices received from 2 to 8 years.
The Meshchansky Court completed the trial in the case of the former head of Rosgranitsa Dmitry Bezdelov, his deputy Boris Khaitovich, the head of the Federal State Institution “Directorate for the Construction and Operation of Rosgranitsa Facilities” (Rosgranstroy) Sergei Sazonov, his deputy Sergei Kozlenkov, the head of CJSC Rostransstroy Alexander Kazartsev, as well as businessmen Evgeny Chaika, Zurab Katamadze and Nikolai Anfinogenov. The criminal case was opened by the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in September 2013, and was based on the results of an operational inspection carried out by employees of the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Combating of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB.
According to investigators, from September 2009 to May 2013, the persons involved in the investigation stole and legalized 490 million rubles allocated from the budget for the construction and reconstruction of six road and railway checkpoints - “Adler” in the Krasnodar Territory, “Pogranichny” in the Primorsky Territory , “Kyakhta” in Buryatia, “Nizhneleninskoye” in the Jewish Autonomous Region, “Vyborg” and “Zabaikalsk”. To achieve this, prices for building materials and the volume of work performed were inflated.
It should be noted that the head of the capital construction and operation department of Rosgranitsa, Danila Vavilov, who entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement, was sentenced in March 2016 by the Tagansky District Court of Moscow to four years in prison for fraud. Another defendant, Oleg Senkevich, who also held a senior position in Rosgranstroi, did not come to the preliminary hearing in the case, and he was put on the wanted list.
Rosgranitsa was liquidated even before the investigation was completed - President Vladimir Putin transferred the functions of this agency to the Ministry of Transport.
Based on the results of the investigation, the investigation charged all defendants with Part 4 of Art. 259 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale). For three members of the group, another article was added to this article - participation in an organized criminal community (OCC) (Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
The investigation considers the former head of the agency, Dmitry Bezdelov, who was hiding abroad for a long time, to be the organizer of the criminal group. In this regard, his case was separated into separate proceedings. In April 2016, the former head of the department was extradited from Italy. Later, the court merged the cases of Bezdelov and his accomplices.
It was Dmitry Bezdelov, according to the investigation, who, wanting to steal money, together with Oleg Senkevich and Danila Vavilov, created a criminal community. After this, Bezdelov involved his deputy Boris Khaitovich in criminal activities, as well as a number of senior employees of Rosgranstroi and general directors of controlled commercial organizations.
During the debate between the parties, the prosecutor's office asked to sentence Dmitry Bezdelov to 10 years in prison, Boris Khaitovich to 9 years, and the rest of the defendants to 3 to 8 years. The defendants and their lawyers insisted on an acquittal.
As a result, the court found all the defendants in the case guilty and sentenced Dmitry Bezdelov to 9 years in a general regime colony, and for the other defendants in the case from 2 to 8 years in a general regime colony. It should be noted that the court dropped the charge of criminal association, since the prosecutor’s office abandoned it during the debate between the parties. And only Boris Khaitovich was charged with laundering stolen property - the rest of the defendants were acquitted under this article. At the same time, the court did not satisfy the civil claim of the injured party, leaving it for consideration in civil proceedings.
The defense said it would appeal the verdict.
How the case against the leaders of Rosgranitsa began
In March 2015, the Prosecutor General's Office accused the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border (Rosgranitsa) of wastefulness in organizing business trips, the lack of equal conditions of remuneration, and even the fact that the general geographical map of Russia does not contain marks of the borders of two constituent entities of the Russian Federation - Crimea and Sevastopol.