The Investigative Committee has completed the investigation of a criminal case on taking bribes against former top managers of the Pension Fund of Russia.
The charges in the final version were brought against Alexander Rudnev, head of the Procurement Department of the PFR, Dmitry Kuznetsov, head of the information technology department, Ruben Efianjyan, head of the automated information system infrastructure management department, Evgeny Nikitin, head of the information security department, Evgeny Turchak, head of the department for organizing public services, and head of the Interregional PFR information center to Konstantin Yankin, Kommersant reports. Also, unidentified persons from among the top management of the fund and employees of the public procurement department allegedly participated in the fraud.
According to investigators, on the 15th, PFR managers received from 200 thousand to 1.5 million rubles a month from the structures of the ex-co-owner of Promsvyazbank Alexei Ananiev. For this, the companies negotiated the parameters of large-scale government procurement of computer equipment for the needs of the fund, which helped them win the relevant tenders. The total amount of bribes is estimated by investigators at 250.7 million rubles, and government contracts received at 10 billion rubles.
All the defendants, except Yankin, deny guilt. Yankin’s lawyer, Yevgeny Martynov, notes that his client admits receiving money from Ananyev’s structures, but claims that he did not spend it on himself, but on the salaries of MIC employees. They were allegedly below the market, because of which the center could be left without workers.
