FSB uncovered kickback scheme at Russian Railways
Four former top managers of Russian Railways were sentenced to prison terms of up to 12.5 years for bribery
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- The FSB of Russia stopped a corruption scheme in Russian Railways.
- Four former top managers received from 8.5 to 12.5 years in prison for bribes and kickbacks when concluding contracts with contractors.
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Why It Matters
The FSB and the Investigative Committee investigated corruption crimes in the field of procurement of the Russian Railways company.
The FSB of Russia has uncovered a corruption scheme of kickbacks when concluding contracts in the administrative and economic department of the Russian Railways company with the participation of four former top managers. The department reported this to TASS.
The kickback amounts reached 10 percent of each payment and 7 percent of the contract value. Officials received remuneration from representatives of contracting organizations for concluding contracts on favorable terms and loyalty. So-called “competitive negotiations” were conducted with the bribe-payers, providing for a simplified procurement procedure.
Participants in the scheme were detained in Moscow. The capital's Basmanny Court sentenced them, clarified the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Svetlana Petrenko. Alexey Savchenko, Oleg Kirillov, Denis Streltsov and Denis Andreev, who held positions in RZhK related to procurement, supply, finance and transport, were found guilty of accepting bribes worth 7 million rubles. They were sentenced to 8.5 to 12.5 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony with fines ranging from 36.8 to 73.6 million rubles.
The verdict came into force.
Open Questions
- Who exactly were the bribe-payers on the part of the contractors?
