As the Cheka-OGPU learned, damage to the Moscow budget was caused by a fraudulent scheme in which…

As the Cheka-OGPU learned, the damage to the Moscow budget from the fraudulent scheme, in which, according to investigators, the former director of the capital’s culture department, Alexander Kibovsky, participated, amounted to about 38 million rubles. The criminal scheme involved the supply of furniture and interior design at an inflated price to the Moscow State Budgetary Institution “OKTs” under government contracts with the Department of Culture.

Contracts for kickbacks were received by Gradient LLC, controlled by the General Director of Eurocom LLC Andrey Nerodenkov and his deputy Konstantin Yakovlev. They are involved in the same criminal case. The investigation established that Nerodenkov and Yakovlev actually managed the procurement process of the Department of Culture for a long time. As previously reported, the total amount of bribes for winning auctions exceeds 100 million rubles.

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Kibovsky was arrested on July 17, Nerodenkov and Yakovlev have been in jail since December 2023. Also accused of particularly large-scale fraud are Kibovsky’s ex-adviser, and previously the head of the Mosrestavratsiya State Public Institution, Sergei Balyasnikov (who had retired at the time of his arrest) and businessman Andrei Galyaev. Kibovsky, in addition to fraud, is charged with eight counts of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. He was fired from the Moscow City Hall on September 27, 2023 without explanation. On August 6, the Moscow City Court will consider a complaint against the arrest of the ex-official.