The investigations on a criminal case against former Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia Alexander Reimer, his former deputy Nikolay Krivolapov, director of the FSUE "Information technology support and communication centre" of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia Victor Opredelenov have been finished by the main Moscow investigation department of the Investigative committee. Depending on role involvement degree, they are accused of commission of crimes in violation of Article 159, part 4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud) and Article 285, part 3 (abuse of power).
According to the investigators, in 2010-2012 the accused stole more than 2,7 bln. rubles by false pretences which were allocated from the budget to the Federal Penitentiary Service for provision of the department with electronic control system of subordinate persons or so-called "e-bracelets". But procurement of these systems was exercised at prices overstated several times. For example, the stationary monitoring device valued at 19 thousand rubles was purchased at 108 thousand while mobile one was purchased at the price of 128 thousand instead of 19 thousand. So it is possible to say that bracelets for home prisoners cost budget of the state more expensively than some gold bijoux. Later, Alexander Reimer received more than 140 million rubles in cash from the accomplice Nikolay Martynov in his work study situated at Zhitnaya street in Moscow as a payment for his aid in embezzlement of public funds.
Investigation of this criminal case involved a certain difficulty conditioned by high volume of investigations and procedural actions, processing considerable quantity of judicial analyses such as accounting one, merchandising one, technical one, handwriting and the others.
Based on the results of investigation of the criminal case and plea agreement made with the accomplice Nikolay Martynov the criminal case against him was divided into separate proceedings for investigation completion.
Soon the accused and their counsel for the defence in accordance with art. 217 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation will take up reviewing materials of the criminal case, after which the criminal case will be directed for indictment resolution and the subsequent transfer to the court for consideration on the merits.
Head of Media Relations V.I. Markin
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