The Cheka-OGPU became aware of a pre-investigation check launched against former…

The Cheka-OGPU became aware of a pre-investigation investigation launched against the former heads of the Main Construction Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service. Sergei Tverdokhlebov and Beslan Gogokhiya are suspected of major fraud, we are talking about the loss of at least 7 million rubles. The scheme is not the newest, but it works: top prison builders wrote off money using fake invoices, adjusted cost estimates to suit themselves, inflated the cost of work and, as a result, sent all the profit into their pockets. And this is only what the investigators were able to find out; obviously, the amount of the stolen goods does not correspond either to the status of the main builders of the FSIN, or to the overall term of office. In 2.5 years, billion-dollar contracts for the construction and reconstruction of barracks and pre-trial detention centers can make a fabulous fortune.

Moreover, the suspects had serious experience. In 2018, Beslan Gogokhia was tried for embezzling 181 million rubles allocated for fire hoses and fire powder. Even before serving at the main construction site of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Gogokhia headed the entire Development Department of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. Surprisingly, his criminal case was returned from court to the prosecutor’s office, and then completely collapsed – only Svetlana Petrenko’s statements about how the Investigative Committee confidently conducted an investigation in relation to a whole gang of robbers in the rescue department. Already in April 2021, Gogokhia was rehabilitated and again received a high leadership position. The former accused became the acting director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise GSU FSIN of Russia, replacing Sergei Tverdokhlebov. In addition, there have already been complaints from the FAS; Tverdokhlebov was even fined for violating the terms of a government contract within the framework of a defense order. It is clear that everything is due to the failed modernization of pre-trial detention centers and colonies – deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Valery Maksimenko was arrested back in 2020 for disrupting the state program. Apparently, the tangle began to unwind further and, finally, solutions were found to those with whom he once worked.