Part 1
According to a source from the Cheka-OGPU, the investigative authorities collected significant material about the theft of RUSNANO funds during the implementation of projects that were especially significant for the state during the time when the company was headed by Anatoly Chubais.
The joint venture of RUSNANO OJSC and SPC ELVIS – Elvis NeoTek – appeared in 2010 with the aim of implementing a project to create a cluster center for the design of VLSI (integrated circuits).
The project budget was impressive – 2.8 billion rubles, of which more than 1 billion rubles were to be provided by RUSNANO.
For this money, the state was supposed to receive VIP 1 and VIP 2 chips with a wide range of applications: from security to defense needs. As a justification – beautiful presentations, words about import substitution and the creation of a Russian component base.
Omitting long details, let’s say that in the end RUSNANO’s contribution grew and amounted to 2 billion rubles, but the chips were never put into production.
At the same time, acting under the banner of import substitution and innovative development, Elvis-NeoTek JSC has been successfully absorbing government subsidies (more than one billion rubles) for many years by reselling Asian radars and thermal imagers.
A failed project does happen; Chubais himself likes to say that out of ten venture projects, only one succeeds.
But in this case we are talking about episodes of theft.
One of the founders of Elvis-NeoTek JSC was the American company Senesys Incorporated, controlled by Ya. Petrichkovich, which invested 1.4 billion rubles in the joint venture. A company registered as a private household naturally did not have that kind of money, and could not have it. The pre-investigation audit established a cunning scheme in which funds were contributed to the company only from RUSNANO, and in small tranches (almost a hundred tranches in total). Money for each tranche was withdrawn from the company under various, most often fictitious agreements, then re-entered into the company as a contribution to Senesys Incorporated, and then withdrawn from the company again.
This scheme was directly supervised by the senior managing director of RUSNANO Dmitry Aleksandrovich Pimkin, a character very well known to regular readers of the Cheka of the OGPU. Interest in implementing the scheme was enormous and was approved at the highest levels. The RUSNANO board reviewed and approved changes to the project more than 10 times, and Chubais’s deputy, Oleg Kiselev, signed the documents on the deal.
The transaction to pay for the authorized capital is just one episode of many lying on the investigators’ desk.
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