"And destroy the basket"

Alexei Ulyukaev was sentenced to 8 years in a maximum security colony

... 10 minutes before the judge of the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow called the deadlines, the corridor brought the hall to barrier with himself. This was the first sign that the defendant would be taken into custody in the courtroom, although in the idea of ​​where the convoy could know the final decision that was not yet read out ... Nevertheless, the convoy was preparing a peculiar one more “corridor” in the corridor (so that the journalists did not interfere) to accompany Ulyukaev already in handcuffs to the car carrier. After 10 minutes, the ex-minister will really put on handcuffs and put in a cage, where he will listen to the sentence regarding the fine, property and receive the traditional question from the judge: “The defendant, the verdict is clear?”

The defendant is understandable. There was a shock and confusion in his eyes, although he tried to stay calmly. All the same, but colder, already answered from a cage to numerous (sometimes tactless) questions of journalists, thanked for his attention, talked with his confused lawyers.

Through the "corridor" of the convoy they will be drawn quickly and without unnecessary problems.

In the morning he was inspired and active. Joking. The beginning of the announcement was delayed for an hour. “Let's, like at school: we are waiting for a teacher and leave for 15 minutes,” he suggested to reporters. Those taking advantage of the case, brought down the questions to the ex-minister-about the possible period and about Sechin. Ulyukaev said that he was hoping for an excuse, and Sechin was joking again, obviously not knowing how to answer the question whether the head of Rosneft experiences his personal hostility:

- Remember how in Mimino? “I feel such hostility that I can’t eat!”

The politician Leonid Gozman came to support Ulyukaev (though he did not get to the main hall, remaining in the hall with video broadcasting). No one came from the inner circle anymore. A bouquet of white roses was handed over from the corridor unknown. “They said that from a fan,” the ex-minister ironized. Then, from another unknown, introduced by the obedient of the Holy Alekseevsky monastery, they transferred a book about this monastery. Ulyukaev was on the rise.

Finally, judge Larisa Semenova entered the hall, accompanied by security. She read her sentence for two hours. The verdict was a mirror reflection of the performance of prosecutors in the debate, with the exception of except that emotional passages such as “rode like cheese in oil” and “undermines the authority of power with its actions”.

From the first lines in the verdict, Ulyukaev was found guilty.

- The court found that Ulyukaev committed a crime under paragraph 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, namely, he received a bribe, being an official, for the action in favor of the bribe giver, on an especially large scale, - the judge read quickly and quietly.

At first, Semenova went through the authority of Ulyukaev to the Ministry of Economic Development, making it clear that he could not help but influence the Rosneft deal to privatize the Bashneft, then moved to duplication of the version that, occupying such a position, the defendant “raised criminal intent” to receive a bribe from the head of Rosneft Igor Setchin in exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange for exchange Positive conclusion of the Ministry of Economic Development on the privatization of Bashneft. The bribe was extorted at the Summit of the BRICS countries in India, and then in November 2016 he went to the Rosneft office ...

At the same time, the verdict read, Ulyukaev "recognized the social danger of his actions."

The defendant listened concentratedly, looking all the time at the judge. That voice sometimes broke into wheezing, then she drank water. The prosecutor Boris Nasily-the most active of the prosecutors-at times looked at the ceiling, as if looking for something there, then returned his gaze to Ulyukaev and protection.

The testimony of witnesses all as one “in aggregate” confirmed the guilt of Ulyukaev and his “criminal intent”, and the verdict read. First of all, like the prosecution of the debate, the example of the former head of the Rosneft Security Service, General of the FSB retired, Oleg Feoktistov, Feoktistov knew that Ulyukaev demanded a bribe of $ 2 million from Sechin, showing two fingers a victory sign during the Brix summit on Goa. True, the verdict did not specify that he himself did not see all this Feoktistov, but only he heard from the words of Sechin, he himself was not on Goa. Judge Semenov and testimonies in the investigation of Igor Sechin himself did not lead in her sentence. These testimonies, recall, were not investigated by the parties in court. Personally, Sechin did not come to the court despite repeated summons.

“The wine of Ulyukaev is also confirmed by Sechin’s statement to the FSB about the extortion of a bribe,” the judge said, without adding that the statement to the FSB, as it turned out, wrote Feoktistov, not Sichin in court.

The strange fact of the absence in the case of testimony (both in the investigation and in court) of the head of VTB Andrei Kostin, who played with Sechin in billiards at the moment when Ulyukaev allegedly exhausted his money, the judge in the verdict simply bypassed, although Kostin is like a real witness.

Like the prosecutors, she also referred to the “evidence” guilt to the testimony of employees of the Ministry of Economic Development, Rosneft and the Federal Property Management Agency, who in court talked about the details and the course of the transaction, that Ulyukaev edited the report of the Ministry of the transaction (the report, by the way, gave the kind to the deal), but did not know anything about Ulyukaev, did not know anything, did not know anything. Recognizing that they heard about this only from the media.

The court also substantiated the guilt of Ulyukaev with the testimony of an employee of the Life online publication, who had shot down at the Brix summit as Sechin and the head of VTB Andrei Kostin play billiards. According to the investigation, it was during this game that Ulyukaev demanded a “reward” for his conclusion. However, the verdict is noted, the Life correspondent himself did not see how the minister showed two fingers of the head of Rosneft.

Finally, Judge Semenova referred to the testimony of the Rosneft security officer-he also did not see a gesture of two fingers, but saw how Ulyukaev approached Sichin during the game of billiards and about something (which specifically-I didn’t hear) with the head of Rosneft.

As evidence of the fault of ex-minister Semenov interpreted the negotiations of Ulyukaev and Sechin, both by phone on November 14, 2016, and in the Rosneft office in the evening of the same day. Moreover, such evidence of Ulyukaev’s guilt in the sentence was called in the sentence the fact that the minister and head of Rosneft agreed on the meeting.

The conviction was based on the sanction of the court to wiretapping the telephone conversations of Ulyukaev and the audio recording of calls.

The results of the psychological linguistic examination of the conversations of Sechin and Ulyukaev on the phone (when they agreed on the meeting), at the time of transferring the bag on the street at the Rosneft office and in the office itself, were expected to be sent out. Experts involved in the investigation - from the Volgograd non -profit organization "South Expert Center" "did not see" signs of provocation in the actions of Sechin.

According to the court, the conclusions of these experts “also testify to the guilt” of the ex-minister, since Ulyukaev “demonstrates the understanding of the unsaid statements of Sechin”.

But the testimony of the professor attracted by the defense of the professor, the head of the forensic examination MGUA named after Kutafina Elena Galyashina, who analyzed the conclusions of experts from the investigation and discovered violations in their work (in particular, the analysis of the conversations was carried out, despite the noise interference on the record) and incompetence (were not based on linguistic evidence), the judge sent to util. Including Galyashina’s conclusion that, judging by the notes, it was Sechin who initiated a meeting with Ulyukaev, and then the transfer of the bag.

“All evidence is sufficient to conclude the guilt of the defendant. All violations are eliminated. There are no contradictions. The court does not see the artificial creation by the FSB of a picture of a crime. Ulyukaev was an official, personally received a bribe, ”the judge summed up. All the arguments of the defense, according to her, are not based on the law and on the case file. And Ulyukaev is trying to avoid punishment with his testimony.

- The court believes that the fault of Ulyukaeva found her full confirmation. The set of evidence is enough to conclude about guilt ...

“Consied” Semenov Pravda “mitigating circumstances”-diseases, positive characteristics, the presence of minor children and elderly disabled parents, state awards, orders, gratitude, scientific degree ...

However, Semenova decided: "The goals of the restoration of justice can be achieved only in the form of imprisonment."

- Recognize Ulyukaev Aleksey Valentinovich guilty of committing a crime under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and sentenced a sentence of imprisonment for a period of 8 years with a colony of strict regime with a fine of 130,433,400 rubles ... - the judge read, and at that time the convoy that entered the defendable and turned it into the cell. The judge continued. -... with the deprivation of the right to occupy positions related to the exercise of the functions of a representative of the authorities, or the performance of organizational, administrative and administrative functions in government agencies, local authorities, state, municipal institutions and state corporations for a period of 8 years ... to preserve the arrest imposed by the decision of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow dated May 18, 2017, on Property before the verdict in the form of a fine: land plots, private household, car, residential building, funds on accounts in PJSC Sberbank of Russia, VTB 24 PJSCs, funds seized during searches, coins from precious metals, wristwatch, silver ingot, decorative laying of silver alloy ...

As for the $ 2 million, which were in the Sichin bag transferred, their fate will be allowed after the sentence entered into legal force.

The remaining material evidence is the bag itself, in which there was money, compact disks, flash cards, details of the compounds, documents seized during the recesses, a mascara-7 tool, dry wash with the palms and fingers of Ulyukaev and its driver, presentation of PJSC NK Rosneft, a wicker basket, a transparent film from it and a ribbon of yellow color with it The inscription "Rosneft", lying in the basket Filled bottles of wine "The Divmor Divnomorskoye Divnomorskoye Manor" (2 pieces of 2012) and the "Divnimorskoye Speech Manor" (2 pieces of 2013) - the court decided to "destroy". Previously, a sausage from a basket was destroyed. Here is actually everything that we should know about the Sichin VS Ulyukaev case.

- Thank you all. This is an unfair sentence. But I continue to hope, ”61-year-old Ulyukaev told reporters from the cage. The defense has already stated that she would appeal the verdict.