The case of the heads of Metroproekt and Spetsmetroproekt, accused of embezzling 8.8 billion rubles, was closed due to the statute of limitations
On March 2, the Moscow City Court stopped the criminal case against Artur Mints, co-owner of Metroproekt, and Sergey Krokhin, director of Spetsmetroproekt LLC, due to the statute of limitations. They were accused of large-scale fraud by pretending that research from the 1980s was their own during the expansion of the Central Ring Road and misusing 8.8 billion rubles of allocated budget funds by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. RUB 8.8 billion allocated budget funds.
The Moscow City Court held preliminary hearings on Wednesday regarding the case, and the lawyers requested to end the prosecution of Mints and Krokhin because of the statute of limitations, which is ten years. On Thursday, the court reported that the petition was granted, the case was dismissed, and the preventive measures for Mints and Krokhin were canceled. However, the decision is not yet final – it is being reviewed at the Prosecutor General’s Office.
According to Kommersant, the case investigation started after a colleague testified against the defendants – a specialist from the department of geoecological surveys of Spetsmetroproekt LLC named Petr Khomyakov Petr Khomyakov. Before this, Khomyakov was involved in a criminal case related to the extremist group Northern Brotherhood, which aimed to overthrow the authorities in Russia.
After being arrested, Khomyakov cooperated with the Prosecutor General’s Office and provided details about the embezzlement involved in the Central Ring Road construction to lessen his punishment. He revealed that about 8.8 billion rubles were misused during the survey work, utilizing data from Soviet specialists from the 1980s.
Despite receiving the billions, the OGEI employees did not conduct the survey work and instead used the old data.
Since Pyotr Khomyakov provided new information to the investigation about fund embezzlement and upheld his agreement with the Prosecutor General’s Office, he was sentenced to four years in prison for extremism in 2012. However, he was never released and passed away from a heart attack. four years in prison
On November 30, 2011, the FSB Investigative Department started a criminal case for embezzlement of 8.8 billion rubles. During the investigation, the accounts of several companies, including Spetsmetroproekt and OAO TsKAD, were frozen, as the management was believed to be aware of the fraudulent survey work scheme.
Artur Mints, co-owner of Metroproekt company, and Sergey Krokhin, general director of Spetsmetroproekt LLC, were both charged with a large-scale fraud. The Moscow City Court, due to the secrecy stamp, stopped the criminal prosecution. Their lawyers did not comment on the court decision.
vchkogpu, 04.03.2022 01:21: The partner of Mints, the second co-owner of Metrogiprotrans, Valery Abramson, also appeared in the case, but he avoided being charged as a defendant. — Inset K.ru
Valery Abramson
Rucriminal.info, 06/28/2019, “How Abramovich’s partners received 8.8 billion rubles from the budget for imitation”: At one time, Khomyakov was the head of one of the directions of Spetsmetroproekt LLC, which participated in the Central Ring Road project. He was the first to talk about large-scale thefts and called them organizers of people from the inner circle. Roman Abramovich. Khomyakov did not live up to the end of his term – he died in a colony under strange circumstances.
Rucriminal.info publishes the testimony of Peter Khomyakov.
“From November 17, 2008, I began to participate in production meetings held in the building of JSC “Metrogiprotrans”, which is located next to the metro station “Paveletskaya”. Workshops were held by Yudin M.A., and large meetings were held by Mints A.M. .. .Meetings were held every 3-4 days, at which our department Mints and Yudin … were tasked with simulating the results of survey work that had allegedly been carried out since the summer of 2008 (despite the fact that these works had not been carried out), and allegedly on their Based on the report on the work done, in this report on all positions of the survey, as directed by Mints A.M., we had to include the available archival data, personal materials (or purchase materials for their inclusion), as well as conduct an imitation of work, to close all positions in order to receive the first payment for the work according to the schedule”.
According to Khomyakov’s testimony in Rucriminal.info, Mints and Co. ordered their subordinates to “simulate work by photographing the area from the car window” and then claim it as conducting route surveys.
As a result, Khomyakov prepared an estimate “on the financial costs of allegedly done work at the direction of Mintz” for 1 billion rubles, while the department actually spent 24 million rubles.
“In January 2009, during a meeting at OAO Soyuzdorproekt, Mints told me that the task for 2009 would be to write off the estimated amount of 2.5 billion rubles, and we need to prepare for this now. I asked, and how much real money will be given to the department of Spetsmetroproekt LLC, to which he answered me: “170 million rubles” … I asked him: “Is this not dangerous at all?” He told me that this was not my concern, all higher structures in the know. I asked who, for example, what he told me: for example, our President Abramson. I represented the level of Abramson’s connections and did not specify anything further.” — Inset K.ru
