SK announced the continuation of the investigation in a number of corruption cases - against the White, Zakharchenko and Ulyukaev

The Investigative Committee of Russia on December 9, on the International Corruption Day, reported on the work of the department to counteract corruption this year, announcing the continuation of the investigation of a number of high -profile corruption cases.

Thus, according to the SK website , active work on investigating criminal cases of corruption in relation to the former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev , the former vice-governor of St. Petersburg Marat Oganesyan, the mayor of Pereslavl-Zalesky Denis Koshurnikov, the former senior officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dmitry Zakharchenko , the governor, and the governor, continues. Kirov region Nikita Belykh .

In addition, at the final stage there is an investigation into criminal cases against the ex-governor of the Sakhalin RegionAlexander Khoroshavin and his accomplices, against members of the criminal community headed by the head of the Republic of Komi Vyacheslav Gaiser , in relation to the former employees of the Moscow Metropolitan State Unitary Enterprise Gleb Borkhovsky, Dmitry Borisenko and businessman Alexander Ishchenko.

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A number of criminal cases related to violations of legislation were sent to the court during the construction of the facilities of the Vostochny Cosmodrome; in relation to the former director of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, Alexander Reimer, his former deputy Nikolai Krivolapov and director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Center for Information and Technical Support and Communications" of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia Viktor Imenovov; former deputy governor of the Chelyabinsk region Nikolai Sandakov.

"The measures taken by the investigating authorities made it possible to realize the principle of inevitability of punishment for committing corruption crimes," the UK noted. So, by four years in prison with a sentence in a penal colony, as well as a fine, the general director of NPO Mostovik LLC Oleg Shishov , found the guilty of money in the amount of more than 1.1 billion rubles allocated for the construction of the Primorsky Oceanarium scientific and educational complex in the city of Vladivostok, was sentenced.

The criminal case against his accomplice, director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Directorate for Construction in the Far Eastern Federal District" Andrei Poplavsky is currently being considered in court. The verdict was sentenced to the mayor of Yaroslavl Evgeny Urlashov in the form of 12.5 years in prison with a maximum security colony and a fine of 60 million rubles.

The former head of the municipality, the city of Tula, Alexander Prokopuku and the deputy director of the municipal state -owned enterprise of the municipality of the city of Tula "Special Economy" Alexander Zhiltsov, who is the chairman of the precinct election commission, was sentenced to seven years and five years of imprisonment of 1 million rubles for a waste of about 30 million rubles.

The former general director of Slavyanka OJSC and the founder of CJSC Safety and Communication CJSC (BIS CJSC) Alexander Yelkin, General Director of BIS CJSC Alexander Lugansk, head of the Department of Maintenance of Slavyanka OJSC Konstantin Lapshin, and also temporarily held the position of head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Ryabykh and actually acting as assistant general director of the Zaul of CJSC CJSC "BIS" Julia Rotanova.

The former deputy Minister of Finance of the Government of the Moscow Region Valery Nosov was sentenced to fraudulent theft of budget funds in the amount of 1 billion rubles and sentenced in the form of 14 years and nine months in prison.

For the nine months of 2016, more than 24.7 thousand criminal cases of corruption crimes were in the production of investigators of the Investigative Committee, among which are prevailing cases of giving and receiving a bribe, fraud, assignment, embezzlement and abuse of authority.

According to the Investigative Committee, criminal cases were sent to the court against 427 persons with special legal status, including 13 deputies of legislative bodies, three judges, 11 prosecutors, 56 members of election commissions, 130 deputies of local self -government, 116 heads of municipalities, 27 internal affairs bodies, four drug control officers and 42 lawyers.

The fight against corruption in the Russian Federation

Recall that the topic of the fight against corruption was recently affected by Russian President Vladimir Putin. So, addressing December 1 with the annual message to the Federal Assembly, he noticed that recently there had been a tendency to raise the noise around resonance affairs about corruption, and urged officials to be more serious about this problem, since "the fight against corruption is not a show."

In addition, in December, the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, speaking of problems in the fight against corruption, called on "focusing on really corruption-hazardous directions, and not arrange a parade of sparrows."

In April 2016, the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika announced almost a thousand criminal cases of corruption, instituted in 2015 against Russian high -ranking officials, whom "many considered untouchable." He also reported an increase in the number of bribes, "including those committed by organized groups, in large and especially large -scale." At the same time, the Prosecutor General announced an increase in the number of courts over corrupt officials. However, the media noted, referring to the statistics of the prosecutor's office, that in Russia the defendants in cases of corruption are justified more often than other criminals.

In 2015, in Russia there was a series of arrests and resignations of governors in connection with corruption.

In December 2015, commenting on the scandalous investigation of the FBK on the connections of the families of the highest ranks of the Prosecutor General’s Office with crime, the secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said that there should be no “untouchables” in anti -corruption investigations in Russia.

At the same time, the Russian leadership repeatedly indicated the negative aspects of anti -corruption policy. So, in February 2015, when the expert working group in the government discussed the initiative of the opposition Alexei Navalny on the introduction of liability for illegal enrichment, the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Igor Zubov, said that "all the" color revolutions "in all countries began under the slogan of the fight against corruption."

Also, an employee of the department claimed that corruption is far from a number one problem for the population. He assured that, according to sociologists, she takes only 13th place in the list of 25 positions.

In October 2015, the head of the administration of the President of the Russian Federation, Sergei Ivanov, urged not to turn the fight against corruption into "witch hunt".

In October 2016, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, during a performance at the Valdai forum in Sochi, criticized the head of government Dmitry Medvedev for the fact that, as president, he “exaggerated the topic of corruption” and attracted too much attention to it.

In 2015, a survey conducted by VTsIOM showed that a third of Russians do not see the real results of the fight against corruption in the country.

In 2016, during the new survey, about half of Russians (46%) noted the results of the work of the authorities in the fight against corruption, but only 13%called them significant, and 33%considered it rather insignificant. 47% adhere to the opposite point of view, including 25% of Russians who do not see any changes, and 22% of respondents who believe that the situation with bribery in the country is worse, corruption intensifies.