Businessman Alexander Monosov denies that he was trying to bribe the deputy head of the Ministry of Construction
As it became known to Kommersant, before the debt of the parties, the unusual version was set out in the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow, businessman Alexander Monosov, accused of giving the bribe of the ex-Zamglava of the Minzifra Maxim Penchina. Detained When transferring 3.75 million rubles to the official. The former head of LLC Budget and Financial Technologies said that before the meeting he confused the folder with documents on problems in the IT industry with cash, which he prepared to buy the wife of the Cartier bracelet.
According to Kommersant, the information about the confusion with the folders that arose, in one of which there was money, and in the other, documents, Alexander Monosov stated even at the final stage of the investigation and asked to inspect his office with a notary. This was done on July 25, 2024. Then the notary recorded the folder in the premises of a similar type.
Giving testimony in court, the entrepreneur accused of giving a bribe to the official said that he met Maxim Parshin more than ten years ago when he worked in the Ministry of Economic Development. “After the appointment of Mr. Parshin, he also became deputy chairman of the Expert Council for Software, while the ministry, the ministry, whose member at that time I was already,” said Alexander Monosov.
The defendant noted that he very often talked with Maxim Parshin on the development of the domestic software market. They met not only at meetings of the Expert Council, meetings, forums and conferences, but also in a non -working situation – in various cafes and restaurants.
So it was on July 12, 2023, when he went to meet Mr. Parshin at the Voronezh restaurant in the center of Moscow to give materials to the project to create a Russian open code, the Github analogue, the defendant said. However, as the entrepreneur said, he confused folders with documents and money.
According to the businessman, 3.75 million rubles. He postponed the purchase of a Cartier bracelet as a gift for his wife’s birthday.
The defendant claims that he wanted to make amends in front of his wife, since because of his work he began to devote less time to his family. This happened after he sold b in 2021OThe most part of his share in the BFT « Rostelecom » concluded an agreement to sell the remaining in 2024. According to the defendant, he previously promised his wife that his workload at work would decrease greatly, but everything went the opposite. “Including, therefore, I wanted to give my wife something significant,” said Mr. Monosov.
He explained that since the official representatives of trading houses of famous jewelry brands left Russia, he planned to buy a present from the so -called Bayer from Telegram, which had already brought a bracelet to Russia and did not accept cards.
“Since it is inconvenient to put seven packs of money in my pocket and in order not to attract the attention of others to such a large amount when transferring, I put it in a plastic document folder that my assistant brought me, and kept it in a closet in my rest room,” the defendant continued. He called himself a supporter of habits, saying that for documents he used the same folders for many years. “That’s why it turned out that both money and printed materials lay in the same folders in the same closet. And by coincidence, I brought the wrong folder to the meeting. Parshin did not open the folder, therefore, the fact of other contents was found only when it was opened by the operatives. It was a shock for him, and for me, and for the operatives too, ”summed up Alexander Monosov.
It is interesting that, according to Kommersant, during the first interrogation of the deputy head of the Ministry of Construction, Maxim Parshin admitted that the money found is his “salary” that the businessman paid to him, but later Refused From these indications, citing pressure from the investigation.
According to the Investigative Committee, in 2022, Mr. Parshin oversaw the activities of the Russian Fund for the development of information technology, to which the Ministry of Civil Academy allocated subsidies from the budget as part of the implementation of state support measures aimed at developing and introducing Russian software. The official, the investigation believes, ensured a predominant consideration of applications and the victory proposed by Mr. Monosov companies in competitions, according to which in November and December 2022, each of the five firms was allocated grants from 70 million to 100 million rubles, and in total more than 450 million rubles. The total amount of the official bribe, taking into account the received grants, was to amount to 31.5 million rubles.
In court, Alexander Monosov called the initial testimony of Maxim Parshin with a self -breeding. He did not deny that, “as a professional”, he really prepared for the Grant Committee a list of 14 companies, of which 5 were won from the competition. At the same time, from the proposed list he himself was related to only two – “Innovations in personnel management” (IUK), where he was a participant with a share of 18%, and LLC “Financial”, where he owned a share of 5%. However, not one of the two firms received Grant, and IUK for the third time, Mr. Monosov pointed out.
It is worth noting that during the investigation on the accounts of the businessman, a total of more than 560 million rubles were arrested, as well as 14 apartments.
The company « BFT Holding », which is the co-owner of which was Alexander Monosov, is now more than half belonging to the structure of Rostelecom. Its main customer was the social fund of Russia, the contracts with which the companies were provided by more than half of the revenue for 2022.
Initially, on July 13, 2023, gentlemen Parshin and monos were sent under house arrest, but a few days later the prosecutor’s office I achieved Their conclusions are in jail. In July 2024, Alexander Monosov I went under the subscription About the loss, and Maxim Parshin continues to be in custody.
It is expected that on March 31 the debt will be held in the court, during which the prosecutor’s office will request punishment for the defendants. Maxim Penchin is charged with receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), and Alexander Monosov – her cottage (part 5 of article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Both faces from 8 to 15 years of imprisonment.
