Deputy Minister of Finance was arrested on charges of embezzlement

The Investigative Committee under the prosecutor’s office of the Russian Federation officially confirmed the detention of the Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Sergey Storchak and two more entrepreneurs.

"Sergey Storchak, as well as the general director of Sodexim V. Zakharov and the president of one of the Moscow banks V. Volkov (apparently, we are talking about an interregional investment bank , the president of which is Vadim Volkov) on suspicion of" assassination to theft by fraud of funds from the State Budget of the Russian Federation organized by an organized group on an especially large scale, "said on Saturday in Saturday," said Saturday in Saturday Interfax, official representative of the SCP of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin.

According to him, this group was detained on November 15 as part of an initiated criminal case by the Main Investigative Department of the SCP of the Russian Federation. The next day, November 16, the Basmanny Court of Moscow issued a sanction for their arrest.

The day before, the Ministry of Finance confirmed the detention of Deputy Head of the Ministry of Finance Sergei Storchak. "According to the information available in the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, the Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Sergey Storchak was detained. The detention was held outside the ministry building. It may be associated with the initiation of a criminal case against third parties that are not employees of the Ministry of Finance," the ministry said in an information message widespread on Friday evening.

The press service of the Ministry of Finance noted that "no official documents related to this detention from the investigative authorities were received by the Ministry of Finance."

"The Ministry of Finance of Russia hopes that the course of the investigation will be as objective as possible," the report said.

According to some reports, the current arrests are in no way connected with the case of Denis Mikhailov, the deputy Storchak, who in 2006 was convicted that the Mercedes car worth 110 thousand dollars and allowed a leak of secret documents as a gift.

“This is a new business, this is not what was about Mikhailov,” a source close to the leadership of the Ministry of Finance told Reuters that he is incriminated is very incomprehensible. There is no what Mikhailov had, there were no bribes and cars. ”

At the same time, the sources of this agency do not exclude that the actions of law enforcement agencies may indicate a campaign against Kudrin himself in connection with the expansion of his powers.

On Friday, Storchak was supposed to be attended by a “financial twenty” meeting in South Africa along with the head of the Ministry of Finance Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin.

The head of the Ministry of Finance does not intend to interrupt the visit to South Africa in connection with the arrest in Moscow of his deputy Sergei Storchak. This was announced by the press secretary of the minister Pavel Kuznetsov.

Sergey Storchak

According to the website of the Ministry of Finance, Sergey Storchak was born on June 08, 1954 in the city of Olevsk Zhitomirsk region of the Ukrainian SSR. He graduated from MGIMO Foreign Ministry of the USSR. From 1988 to 1992 he worked in the structures of the Foreign Ministry. The candidate of economic sciences worked for a long time in domestic representatives at the UN and other international organizations and only in 1994 came to work at the Ministry of Finance, the Department of Credits and External debt, which was headed by Mikhail Kasyanov at that time.

From December 1988 to 1992 he worked at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the second secretary of the USSR permanent representation at the UN branch and other international organizations.

Since 1998, for six years, Storchak has been Deputy Chairman of Vnesheconombank, from where he again went to the Ministry of Finance to the post of director of the Department of International Financial Relations, State Long and State Financial Assets. Subsequently, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance.

From November 2005 to the present - Deputy Minister of Finance. In 2000, he was awarded the medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree.