Investigation of the case of the former head of the Department of Culture of Moscow completed
As it became known to Kommersant, the Investigative Committee completed the investigation of the criminal case of the former head of the capital’s culture department of Alexander Kibovsky, accused of receipt of rollouts at the conclusion of state contracts. In the final version, the investigation charged him with seven episodes of receiving bribes totaling 114.5 million rubles, as well as an attempt to receive another in the amount of 19.7 million rubles. Mr. Kibovsky and two of his alleged accomplices did not admit their guilt.
The completion of the investigation of the case of Mr. Kibovsky became known at a meeting of the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow, which, at the request of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Moscow, extended the arrest of the ex-official until July 16. The investigation substantiated the request for the further content of the defendant in the pre -trial detention center, primarily the need to familiarize him with the other accused with the materials of the criminal case.
According to Kommersant, the accusation of the final editorial office Alexander Kibovsky, the ex-deputy director of the State Committee for Culture of the Department of Culture, now pensioner Sergei Balyasnikov and the director of Euromom LLC, Andrei Nepodenkov, was presented on May 13, after their case was allocated to separate production from the main one, and three days later the defendants began to get acquainted with him.
The investigation claims that, having taken the post of head of the capital’s department of culture in 2015, Mr. Kibovsky created an organized group, in which he involved Andrei Nepodenkov, his deputy Konstantin Yakovlev, as well as Sergey Balyasnikov and unidentified persons “from among the trapping and subordinate institutions”. According to the investigation, in 2017–2023, Konstantin Yakovlev received seven bribes from the entrepreneur Andrei Galyaev for Mr. Kibovsky (part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) for a total of 114.5 million rubles. The money was paid “for creating conditions”, under which the organizations “from 2016 to 2023, which were controlled by Andrei Galyaev, won trading with a depth and subordinate institutions for the conclusion of state contracts for the supply of furniture, interior and equipment”. At the same time, the amount of reward illegally received by Mr. Kibovsky, according to the TFR, was an average of 10% of the cost of state contracts.
It is interesting that another episode, which the investigation previously interpreted as an attempt on fraud (part 3 of article 30 and part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in the amount of 38 million rubles, was then re -qualified for them to attempt to receive a bribe (part 3 of article 30 and part 6 of article 290) already in the amount of 19.7 million rubles.
Initially, the investigation claimed that one of Mr. Galyaev’s firms, Gradent LLC (its founder is his wife), got the opportunity to conclude state contracts for the supply of equipment and furniture for the GBUK Unification of Cultural Centers at high prices. However, the examination conducted in the case did not confirm this. Now the investigation believes that Mr. Kibovsky was hoping to receive a “rollback” in the amount of 19 million 746 thousand rubles for state contracts, but he did not have time in connection with the detention of the defendants.
In addition to Mr. Kibovsky, there are seven episodes of receiving bribes on an especially large scale (part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and attempting to receive another (part 3 of article 30 and part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) are also incriminated to the gentlemen of Balyasnikov and Nerodenkov, who, like the main person, are arrested and denied guilt.
As for Konstantin Yakovlev, then As early wrote “Kommersant”he agreed with the prosecution, concluding a pre -trial agreement on cooperation with the prosecutor’s office. His example was followed by two more-bribeaders Andrei Galyaev and general director of Renaissance Restation JSC Ivan Selilo. Gentlemen Yakovlev and Galyaev are under house arrest, and Mr. Selilo is banned by certain actions. Another alleged bribe taker – CEO of RSK LLC Architectural Heritage ”Alexei Ivliev – is detained and does not admit guilt.
As previously reported by KommersantIn the spring of this year, the metropolitan head of the Investigative Committee established two more episodes of Mr. Kibovsky receiving bribes worth more than 100 million rubles, however, they never brought him an official charge on them. Perhaps this will be done later.
During the extension of Mr. Kibovsky on June 17, in court, the ex-official criticized the defendant charged him, saying that in his case there were no and no theft of budget funds, there was no loss of treasury and, on the contrary, a surplus was discovered. ”
He recalled that the criminal case was opened in December 2023 allegedly due to overstating prices for the purchase of furniture for city libraries. “But only a year later, the investigation was able to conduct a commodity forensic examination. As a result, this roughly concocted scam suffered a complete fiasco, ”the arrested said. Meanwhile, according to Mr. Kibovsky, it was this episode that launched the investigation when four other defendants were arrested. They, as Mr. Kibovsky insisted, “for half a year without any reason kept in a pre -trial detention center, demanding that in exchange for freedom testimony” against him.
The defendant also drew attention to the fact that from his accusation “completely disappeared” the director Victoria Khabalonova, director of the Joint Director for the Development of Culture and Rest of Moscow Cultural and Rest Parks. She, as the investigation claimed, transferred 20 million rubles for Mr. Kibovsky, so that Elite Group LLC Alexei Kapustin in 2021 won a bidding for the conclusion of state contracts for construction work. It was her testimony, according to the investigator, that allowed « artificially attract him to a criminal case and arrest him seven months after the first arrests. » Mr. Kibovsky called his case “ordina”, adding that all this time he was not hiding from the investigation, but went to Novorossia, as well as to Minsk to the Festival “Digital History” and always returned to Moscow. He added that the investigation did not find in him or his relatives of illegal income and real estate, in connection with which the courts « twice denied the investigation of his accounts and property. »
The lawyer of the former official Julia Potapova called on the court to reject and release the defendant from the custody, calling the arguments of the investigation that he could hide or prevent the investigation. The lawyer considered the prosecution to Mr. Kibovsky to be insolvent, noting that it does not indicate for what specific “actions or inaction” her client allegedly received money.
In turn, the representative of the Investigative Committee, insisting on the further finding the accused in jail, referred to the presence of “vast relations among state authorities and administrations”. As a result, having weighed the arguments of the parties, the court satisfied the application of the investigation, leaving Mr. Kibovsky in custody until July 16. Leaving the court, Mrs. Potapova told Kommersant that she would appeal the decision made.
