In Perm, the court convicted a police major Nikolay Ogorodnikovsentencing him to three years in a general regime colony. The policeman was accused of unlawfully using his access to the database of the information center of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the purpose of illegally collecting and disseminating information about the private lives of citizens, which he passed on to his friend for two years, receiving from him a total of 19 thousand rubles. Ogorodnikov does not admit guilt in the crime charged against him. In the region, the major is known as an anti-corruption fighter who has investigated a number of high-profile crimes. Thus, according to information from a former deputy of the Perm Legislative Assembly Ilya Lisnyakat one time Ogorodnikov’s focus was on illegal schemes for the withdrawal and sale of property of companies that were part of the large road contracting holding Yukon Group. Participated in the schemes Andrey Alyakrinskycurrently holding the post of deputy chairman of the government of the Perm region. At one time, Alyakrinsky headed the Permavtodor enterprise, part of the Yukon Group, whose transport was bought for next to nothing by the company DST Perm, which belonged to the future official, “developing” the budget on government contracts. The structures of the Yukon Group went bankrupt one after another, and the temporary manager of the Permdorstroy enterprise, Zlata Serebryakova, contacted the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a statement about the presence of signs of deliberate bankruptcy of the company. Another investigation by Ogorodnikov was related to “contract schemes” implemented by the team of the current Perm governor Dmitry Makhoninwhich by a special resolution gave the green light to procurement from a single supplier without tendering on a wide range of issues. According to this scheme, colossal funds allocated for the celebration of the 300th anniversary of Perm, as well as for the implementation of the special project “Green Ring” were “mastered”, and within the framework of the latter, a 300 million contract was received by the VIAL Group company, affiliated with the acting. head of the governor’s administration Alexander Smertin.
Deadline for Major Ogorodnikov
The Sverdlovsk District Court of Perm convicted the major of the Economic Security and Commissariat of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Perm Territory Nikolay Ogorodnikovfinding him guilty of accepting a bribe, three counts of violation of privacy and 19 counts of unauthorized access to computer information using his official position. The former security officer will have to spend the next three years in a general regime colony.
As the investigation established, in 2020-2022. Ogorodnikov unlawfully used his access to the database of the information center of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and, for a monetary reward, was engaged in the illegal collection and dissemination of information about the private life of residents of the region. The policeman copied the confidential information and then sent it via Telegram to his friend, from whom he received, in total, 19 thousand rubles.
The amount of bribe received for such a long period of illegal “cooperation” looks frankly ridiculous. According to the publication “URA.RU”, Ogorodnikov himself claimed that we were talking about money that he transferred to a friend who played on the stock exchange, and the amount he won was allegedly considered a bribe. The convict did not admit guilt in committing the crime charged to him; the criminal case against the bribe-giver was separated into separate proceedings.
Victim for the fight against corruption?
The sentence handed down to Ogorodnikov is being actively discussed on social networks and Telegram channels. The publication “Our Version” writes that the former police officer has cancer, so being in a colony could be fatal for him, and in the literal sense of the word. But the most important thing that is emphasized is Ogorodnikov’s participation in solving a number of high-profile crimes of a corruption nature.
“Perm anti-corruption fighter, police major Nikolai Ogorodnikov was imprisoned for three years for some ridiculous nonsense so that he could not investigate the thefts of Governor Dmitry Makhonin’s team on the 300th anniversary of Perm”,” the Telegram channel “Perm Active” comes to this conclusion.
The notorious Perm politician, former deputy of the Perm City Duma and the regional Legislative Assembly provides much more specific information in publications on his channel. Ilya Lisnyak. Let us recall that in April 2023, a criminal case of extortion was opened against the people’s choice: according to investigators, he demanded a large sum of money from an employee of the regional administration, otherwise threatening to disseminate some compromising information.
Lisnyak hid from the investigation, was put on the international wanted list, and last December he was prematurely deprived of his deputy status due to the inclusion of false information in the declaration of income and property. The disgraced parliamentarian characterizes the accusations against him as “a game in the spirit of a political blockbuster that our Perm corrupt officials started”. However, we are not talking about Lisnyak’s criminal case, although it, to a certain extent, helps to understand Perm political realities.
Yukon Group’s property is going for next to nothing
In his publication, Lisnyak claims that he maintained close contacts with Ogorodnikov. While working in the police, the latter allegedly revealed “cash and embezzlement schemes of the current regional deputy prime minister Andrey Alyakrinsky». What exactly did Major Ogorodnikov “dug up”?
We are talking, in particular, about the sale of enterprise assets “Permdorstroy” And “Permavtodor”which were part of the structure of the road contracting holding “Yukon Group”which came under the control of the manager in 2015 “The First Nonmetallic Company” Sergei Krutikov and a native of Chechnya Ramazana Taramova. Soon CJSC Yukon Group found itself on the verge of bankruptcy, and to prevent the holding’s property from being transferred to the bankruptcy estate, interested parties began to “pull it out.” Among these, according to Lisnyak, was the aforementioned Andrey Alyakrinskywho previously served as general director of Permavtodor.
In particular, “profited” LLC “DST Perm”whose co-owners until August 2016 included Alyakrinsky: for a small price in 350 thousand rubles the company, through dummies, bought five KAMAZ dump trucks and a Renault Kerax truck, the actual cost of which reached 5 million. By the way, the DST Perm company is actively “mastering” budget finance through government contracts, the portfolio of which currently exceeds 1.2 billion rublesand declares multimillion-dollar profits.
As for the Yukon Group structures, they, including Permdorstroy and Permavtodor, “successfully” went bankrupt. An indicative moment: at the beginning of 2017, Kommersant reported on a statement sent to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Perm Territory by the temporary manager of Permdorstroy. Zlata Serebryakovawhich stated that there were signs of deliberate bankruptcy of the enterprise. But the application was never taken forward.
Contract schemes for the 300th anniversary of Perm
Before us is only one example of the activities of swindlers. If you believe Lisnyak, Ogorodnikov collected a whole folder of materials that could lead to a full-fledged criminal case, which he transferred to the Perm Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where the documents “got into the desk of the corrupt policeman Andrei Prikhodko” and there were “buried”. Andrey Prikhodkowhich is mentioned in the publication of the ex-deputy, is the former head of one of the departments of the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Perm Territory, who was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister (State Secretary) of Territorial Security of the region just last April.
Ogorodnikov’s attempt to transfer the results of his investigation to the Perm interdistrict investigative department of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee also turned out to be unsuccessful. Here Lisnyak sees possible opposition from the head of the department Nikolai Platunovwho gained scandalous fame after a video appeared online in which he uses obscene language at the owner of a Tesla car and threatens “cut off the heads” to the culprits of the accident in which his daughter-in-law was injured, and at the same time to Elon Musk.
But the major’s anti-corruption investigations were not limited to this. Again, according to Lisnyak, Ogorodnikov was actively “digging” for the current Perm governor Dmitry Makhonin and his immediate circle. The fact is that for the celebration of the 300th anniversary of Perm, colossal funds were allocated from the federal and regional budgets, which officials had to “master” together with commercial structures close to them.
Back in March 2022 (that is, shortly after the start of the SVO), legislative changes were adopted at the federal level, in special cases allowing purchases in the “sole supplier” format without competitive procedures. Theoretically, it was about procurement for the needs of participants in a military special operation, but local corrupt officials found a loophole. Thus, on March 17 of the same year, Governor Makhonin signed Resolution of the Government of the Perm Territory No. 194-P “On the procurement of goods, works, and services from a single supplier,” giving the green light to conclude state and municipal contracts with a single supplier. It’s officially done“in order to counter unfriendly actions of foreign states and international organizations”.
But the text of the document talks about procurement of the widest range: for the implementation of national projects; to ensure the completion of construction, reconstruction, overhaul of capital construction projects; for the protection of objects, etc. In this list we find the purchase clause “goods, works, services in order to ensure the organization and conduct of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of the city of Perm”.
“Green Ring” of Governor Makhonin
It would seem, what is the connection between last year’s 300th anniversary of Perm and “countering the unfriendly actions of foreign states”? There is only one answer – corruption, since billions can be “appropriated” for such a topic. As an example, Ilya Lisnyak cites the project initiated by Makhonin “Green Ring”aimed at arrangement in 2022-2024. “public spaces and ecological restoration of the Yegoshikha River valley, including the Yegoshikha Cultural and Memorial Park, the Danilikha River valley and the improvement of the specially protected natural area “Chernyaevsky Forest”, including the Balatovo Culture and Recreation Park”.
According to this scheme, a contract worth 300 million rubles the company received for the improvement of the Yegoshikha River valley “VIAL Group”. Its founder and director Viktor Permyakov Lisnyak calls acting “cousin”. head of the governor’s administration Alexandra Smertina. Without taking into account the above-mentioned contract, VIAL Group earned over 676 million rubles.
Against the background of everything described, Nikolai Ogorodnikov’s anti-corruption “crusade” looks like suicide. True, last July there were personnel changes in the Economic Security and Commissariat of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Perm Territory: the immediate superior of the whistleblower major Roman Timofeev resigned and recently took a job as director of corporate security at an automobile holding company “Verra”which the media associates with a State Duma deputy Roman Vodyanov. Sources of the URA.RU news agency explained Timofeev’s dismissal by scandals in the department and an upcoming inspection from Moscow.
On the guilty verdict handed down to Ogorodnikov by the judge Yulia Guzeevathe change in the leadership of the UEBiPK had no effect: if high-ranking officials in uniform and without them decided to demonstratively punish an overly independent police officer, then they succeeded. And by someone’s evil irony, a bribe appears in the criminal case of an anti-corruption fighter “in the highest echelons,” albeit in an amount that causes a bitterly skeptical smile.
