Kostin: I did not pass Sichin a request from Ulyukaev about money

VTB President Andrei Kostin denies that he handed over to President Rosneft Igor Sechin a request from the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev on bonuses to officials of his department and the Federal Property Management Agency for organizing the Bashneft privatization transaction. It is reported by "Rain".

Meanwhile, other sources told the rain that it was to Kostin, to his old friend, that Ulyukaev turned for help. The VTB Capital claimed, one of the VTB structures, received $ 30 million from the federal budget for preparing the privatization of Bashneft. Meanwhile, the minister considered this remuneration undeserved, since it was not required to organize a deal - Rosneft herself expressed a desire to buy "Bashneft".

“There was supposedly a conversation (between Ulyukaev and Kostin. - Ed.) That since you received a lot, provide support. Well, Andrei Leonidovich (Kostin - Ed.) Went to Igor Ivanovich (Sichin. - Ed.). I think that in one variation it is like the truth,” said one of the interlocutors of the television channel.

As a large official told "rain", Vladimir Putin is ready to "let Ulyukaev with the world" and hush up the case open against him. Another source does not exclude that the former minister is retrained from an article on bribery to less serious - on exceeding official powers. However, another interlocutor of the TV channel noted that while Putin is listening to the arguments of the FSB, who claims that the presence of a crime in the actions of the official has been proven.

In November last year, shortly after the opening of the case against Ulyukaev, Rosbalt already wrote with reference to a source in the FSB that there was an intermediary between Ulyukaev and Sechin. It was claimed that the official talked "with the president of a large state bank, who was in trusting relations both with the Minister himself and with Sechin" and the banker promised Ulyukaev to talk with the president of Rosneft.

Ulyukaev was detained on the evening of November 14, 2016. The next day he was sent under house arrest. Then Putin is illegal, without the necessary presentation of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, he fired the official "due to the loss of trust."

The former minister is charged with part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (receiving a bribe by civil servants on an especially large scale with extortion), which provides from 8 to 15 years of the colony. According to the plot of the case, Ulyukaev demanded from the representative of Rosneft Money for the legitimate issuance of a positive conclusion and evaluating "regarding the purchase by this company of the Bashneft state stake. Otherwise, they say in the TFR, the official threatened to create obstacles to the work of Rosneft.

On February 1 of this year, Reuters said that when transferring money to Ulyukaev in the Moscow office, Rosneft was personally attended by Sechin , who prepared the meeting "in cooperation with representatives of law enforcement agencies."

The media also wrote that the persecution of the official was initiated by Rosneft Vice President, General Oleg Feoktistov, formerly the first deputy head of the FSB economic security department. The other day it became known that Feoktistov left Rosneft . According to Sechin, he returned to "military service".