The Gorelovo pre-trial detention center has been replete with verdicts from the district courts of St. Petersburg for the last three years. But don’t be surprised, this is a shameful echo of a long criminal saga about extorting money from prisoners and their relatives. Today in the dock is the head of the operational department of the PKU SIZO-6 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, Evgeniy Degtyarev. The size of the bribe collected from poor relatives is amazing.
Prison manna
Last year, as we already wrote, the public was stirred up by the story of extortion of money in the Gorelovo pre-trial detention center. A profitable “business” was put on stream. As a result, Mikhail Filimonov, an associate of the crime boss “Besprizornik” Andrei Khloev, and the senior detective of the operational department of the PKU SIZO-6 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Timur Vodopyanov, ended up in the dock. The clever Filimonov and the FSI men quickly collaborated in the field of regular milking of prisoners and their relatives.
But retribution caught up with them. Vodopyanov for getting rich 1.7 million rubles received 6 years of imprisonment to be served in a maximum security penal colony, Filimonov got off with a suspended sentence of 4 years.
But even then, in the criminal case there was an alarming line – “unidentified persons.” That is, not only these two were involved in the case. Then Vodopyanov’s boss, Evgeniy Degterev, was detained. In January 2022, he was sentenced to 7 years in prison in a maximum security colony for accepting bribes. The investigation established that in 2018-2020, Dekterev received money from relatives of prisoners. For this, he created more comfortable conditions for the prisoners. Namely, as the investigation reports:
creation of favorable conditions for persons held in pre-trial detention centers, expressed in the possibility of the latter using mobile communications, obtaining food products prohibited by internal regulations, non-application of disciplinary measures to the latter, as well as non-use of physical violence and torture by other prisoners collaborating with the administration of the institution.
Even in our previous material, we wrote that those 2 million rubles The bribes that the investigation gave him were not the entire volume of the loot. As a result, the investigation nevertheless established that the Ufsinovite built an entire criminal scheme for extorting money, which for many years fed the operatives and their boss well.
Millions for well-being
As a result, the continuation of the criminal history of bribery was completed in the Nevsky District Court the other day. The investigation was able to prove that Degtyarev, with unidentified (yet) persons, received from persons detained in pre-trial detention center-6 and their relatives – 10 million rubles.
Money was transferred to bank cards with subsequent cashing, or transfer to an intermediary card. They caught Degtyarev as well as Vodopyanov in an operational combination with a “doll” in 400 thousand rubles.
Today Degtyarev was charged with 7 criminal episodes, provided for in paragraph 5 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
The court concluded that since June 2013, Degtyabrev decided to receive monthly bribes on a large scale from prisoners detained in cell room 1/1 of pre-trial detention center-6. For a “small” share, inmates were allowed to use mobile phones, receive the desired food products, and wash in the shower at any convenient time, and not during the time allotted for water procedures according to the internal regulations of the institution. The list of amenities provided also included:
– watching TV
– providing a more comfortable sleeping place
– no cell cleaning
– turning a blind eye to violations of discipline and not applying disciplinary measures
– other concessions and violations of the internal regulations of the pre-trial detention center
In order for everything to go smoothly, the head of the operational department of the FKU SIZO-6 brought in intermediaries. They became, as the court established, investigative arrestees who were in a dependent position on him. The average monthly salary across cells for a minimum set of “services” was 20 thousand rubles. For other “services” you had to pay extra. The money was transferred to the bank accounts of the intermediaries’ relatives and then cashed out. As a result, from one person under investigation, the head of the operational department received an average of 170 to 275 thousand rubles annually. Sometimes this amount reached 506 thousand rubles.
As a result, the total amount of bribes received by Degtyarev amounted to about 1 million 750 thousand rubles. The major admitted his guilt and was sentenced by the court to 6.5 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony. However, as our sources joke, the bribe-taker won’t have to get used to it much; the conditions, as they say, are familiar. And he generally knows the rules of the routine.
However, according to insiders, although the amount does not look stunning, these are only those tranches that the investigation was able to prove. In fact, the major earned much more from the inmates. But this is not what is interesting, but the fact that it was possible to open the abscess of bribery only thanks to the natural greed of Mikhail Filimonov, a criminal from the brain to the bones, who, as we have already written, got off the easiest in this situation. According to our sources, in fact, the investigation has not yet been completed. Among those same “unidentified persons” there are probably others very interesting people. It is possible that the criminal bribe-drama of the Gorelovo pre-trial detention center will be supplemented by someone from the authorities. After all, the bosses, as you know, love to live a satisfying and good life.
