The general director of the energy company is suspected of billions

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of abuse of powers against the former general director of IDGC of the Center of Evgeny Makarov, Kommersant reports . According to investigators, he inflicted one of the largest domestic network energy companies, providing electricity of 11 regions of Russia, damage worth more than a billion rubles.

The investigation was conducted by the operatives of the counterintelligence department of the industry of the economic security service of the FSB. They found that in the period from 2004 to 2010, Makarov "for personal illegal enrichment" concluded a number of outsourcing agreements economically disadvantageous for his enterprise.

In particular, in 2005, Makarov transferred from the territorial branches of IDGC of the Center to Corssis, the main owner of which is his wife Tamara Makarov, more than a thousand IT specialists. They continued to engage in the maintenance of the information and technological systems of the energy company, and physically remained at their previous workplaces. At the same time, they were formally listed in Corssis, which entered into contracts with IDGC Center.

New defendants may be involved in the case. According to Kommersant, the TFR, together with the FSB, conducted searches in the apartments and houses of the former deputy leader of the company Dmitry Lagunin, former directors of Belgorodenergo, Viktor Filatov, Tverjenergo, as well as the Belgorodenergo top manager Alexei Zelensky and ex-head of the Cornsis company Stanislava Milkina. Only Milkin has been interrogated as a suspect.

Makarov himself is abroad. Sources in the investigating authorities informed the publication that Markov would be put on the international wanted list if he does not appear for interrogation. On the phone, Markov told the Kommersant that he was not hiding, but went abroad for a medical examination. He claims that he was still not assigned to initiate a criminal case, nevertheless, at the end of the treatment, he was ready to return to Russia and give testimony. He called the case as fabricated.

Other defendants are also said about the same. "All outsourcing transactions were absolutely legitimate and market, they were on the basis of decisions of the Board of Directors of the RAO UES of Russia, and the price of contracts was determined by an independent appraiser," Filatov said.