The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow received a petition from the investigation to arrest the ex-director…

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow received a petition from the investigation to arrest the ex-director of the capital’s Department of Culture, Alexei Kibovsky, accused of attempted large-scale fraud and eight counts of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. A criminal case about kickbacks in the Department of Culture was opened on December 22, 2023 by the third investigative department of the second department for the investigation of particularly important cases (crimes against state power and in the economic sphere) of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Moscow, at the same time the first defendants were sent to pre-trial detention center.

This is the director of Eurokom LLC Andrei Nerdenkov (he is the son-in-law of the first head of Russian customs, dollar multimillionaire Anatoly Kruglov) and his deputy Konstantin Yakovlev, ex-adviser of Kibovsky, and previously the head of the Mosrestavratsiya State Institution Sergei Balyasnikov (retired at the time of his arrest) and entrepreneur Andrey Galyaev. According to the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the accused took kickbacks for the victories of commercial structures at auctions, in particular, for the supply of furniture. The amount of bribes received exceeds 100 million rubles.

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Kibovsky was fired from the Moscow City Hall on September 27, 2023 without explanation. His resignation became part of a minimal reshuffle in the capital’s government in connection with the re-election of Sergei Sobyanin to the post of mayor. Kibovsky has worked in the Moscow government since 2010 – first as director of the department of cultural heritage, and in 2015 he headed the department of culture.