As it became known to the Cheka-OGPU, the ex-director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Federal Center for Analysis and Assessment…

As the Cheka-OGPU learned, the former director of the Federal Center for Analysis and Assessment of Technogenic Impact (FCAO) Vladislav Novikov, who was arrested in early May on charges of abuse of office in 2016 (Part 3 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) , according to the tradition that has developed in recent years, he was hiding from investigation in the zone of the so-called special operation. He was there from August 24, 2023 to April 28, 2024, and on May 2 he was detained and charged on the same day.

When considering the appeal against Novikov’s arrest in court, the defense insisted that while at war, the accused “was not hiding and could not have known about the initiation of a criminal case against him.” Specifically regarding the ex-head of the FCAO, the material was actually opened on April 22, a few days before his return from Ukraine. However, on the fact of the theft of 370 million rubles during the implementation of a state contract for the development of software and hardware for accounting for waste with a negative impact on the environment, the material was discovered back in September 2020.

In September 2023, Novikov’s former deputy Andrei Kudryavtsev, who now holds the post of senior researcher at the Institute of Applied Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, came under investigation – he was charged with receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In the same month, Novikov’s friend, general director of Adikom Systems LLC Igor Teperin, was detained, and investigators charged him with fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Both were sent to jail. A few days before their arrest, the ex-head of the Federal Central Administrative District fled to fight in Ukraine.

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