Former Russian Deputy Energy Minister Anatoly Tikhonov received a 227 million ruble bribe in exchange for assistance in concluding government contracts, TASS reports on January 7, citing law enforcement agencies.
“The preliminary investigation established that Tikhonov received a bribe in the amount of about 227 million rubles through intermediaries for assistance in concluding government contracts. At the same time, foreign bank accounts were used in the plan.said the source.
Recall that in the fall of 2022, the head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev announced a joint event with the FSB of Russia, within the framework of which the fact of bribing the former Deputy Minister of Energy was revealed. When and to whom the bribe was given, he did not say. Later it became known that it was Anatoly Tikhomirov, who was detained and arrested in 2020 for the embezzlement case.
According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, during the investigation the involvement in the case of the former head of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “REA”, Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia Anatoly Tikhomirov and his adviser Roman Ryzhkov was established. In addition to those listed, the deputy chairman of Lanit JSC Vladimir Makarov and Victoria Serebryakova participated in the case. All of the above carried out a robbery in the amount of at least 603 million rubles, which was allocated to create an information system. Investigators accused them of fraud, after which they were all arrested in September 2020.
Tikhomirov was appointed to the post of deputy head of the Ministry of Energy in the summer of 2019 and was relieved of his post in April 2021, six months after his arrest.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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