In the Central District Court of Kemerovo on Wednesday, December 7, a meeting was held at which the issue of choosing a preventive measure for the former chairman of the government of Kuzbass Vyacheslav Telegin, who was accused of 30 episodes of committing a crime under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud). Gathered the main thing that both sides said during the trial.
The prosecution demanded that Telegin be sent to pre-trial detention center No. 2 in Novokuznetsk. According to the prosecution, from there the defendant could not influence the investigation and the trial or destroy evidence and other evidence.
– Telegin was charged with 30 episodes of Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The accused did not cooperate with the investigation and did not testify yet. According to the prosecution, he has great authority and an extensive circle of acquaintances among law enforcement officers, government agencies, municipalities and court employees. And it can put pressure on the investigation and the court, so another measure of restraint, except for taking into custody, is impossible,” the investigator announced.
Proving these conclusions, the investigation reported that the current head of Leninsk-Kuznetsk, Konstantin Tikhonov, several times abandoned a civil claim for compensation for more than 72 million rubles of damage caused to the city budget, since Tikhonov had been directly subordinated to Telegin for a long time. However, in the end, the mayor of Leninsk-Kuznetsky filed a lawsuit.
– Now Telegin does not occupy a high-ranking position, but has extensive connections. The investigation suggests that he may also threaten witnesses. For example, other defendants – members of the organized criminal group, when giving evidence, citing Telegin’s involvement in crimes, said that they fear for their lives and health, – said the representative of the Investigative Committee.
Lawyers during the meeting argued that the arguments of the investigation were illegal, since no facts about threats or bribery of witnesses and participants in the court were found.
– The conclusions of the investigation are illogical and far-fetched statements. I believe that the detention of my client, as required by the investigators, is a clear and undisguised form of psychological and physical pressure. Frankly forcing him to confess, – answered one of Telegin’s lawyers.
The defense of the former official asked that copies of various diplomas, awards, including a positive reference on behalf of the governor, be attached to the case Sergei Tsivilev. According to lawyers, this proves that Telegin would not put pressure on the investigation or the court. At the same time, the defense drew attention to the work of the investigation.
– The investigator’s blatant confession about his pressure on the head of Leninsk-Kuznetsky with a demand to file a lawsuit under the threat of initiating a criminal case. The investigation has demonstrated how it can break the will of the witnesses and achieve the desired result, the lawyer announced.
During the meeting, the lawyers read out a statement from the wife of the former official, in which she stated that she was ready to make a bail in the amount of 15 million rubles for her husband.
“In confirmation of the reality of the use by the court of a measure of restraint in the form of bail, I provide an extract from my bank account showing that I have 15 million rubles,” Svetlana Telegina writes in her petition.
Later, the judge read out the indictment, which was put forward by the investigation into the fraud case, for which the official faces up to 10 years in prison.
– From 2014 to 2018, Telegin, being the head of the administration of the Leninsk-Kuznetsk urban district, acted in collusion with the employees of the construction company Ekostroy LK. The defendant entered into a knowingly illegal contract to perform work on the improvement and installation of engineering networks of residential buildings in the city in order to embezzle budgetary funds in the interests of Ekostroy LK. As a result, the budget of the administration of the Leninsk-Kuznetsk city district suffered damage in the amount of at least 72 million 935 thousand rubles. In addition, it was established that in 2018, at the direction of Telegin, the purchase of a Toyota Land Cruiser 200 car in the amount of 4.2 million rubles was paid from the accounts of Ekostroy LK. The car is currently in his personal use, the judge read.
Kommersant.Ru, 07.12.2022, “Thirty episodes for one premiere”: In addition to Vyacheslav Telegin, four people appear in the case, two are in a pre-trial detention center, and two more are under travel restrictions. […]
The former official said that the allegations were unfounded. According to him, if he wanted to hide, he would have done it long ago, since the criminal case was initiated several months ago. In addition, the man noted that he was banned from traveling abroad for two years, since, while working in the government of the region, he had access to secret documents. — Inset K.ru
@mafia_7ru, 05.12.2022 16:22: Telegin’s former deputy Rashid Badertdinov and his son Alexander, the former director of Ekostroy LK LLC, are already waiting in the pre-trial detention center for Telegin. This company was previously registered to Telegin’s mother-in-law Valentina Golubovskaya. The former official is suspected of fraud during his work in Leninsk-Kuznetsk (from 2010 to 2018). His family owns dozens of real estate in the Kemerovo region (including shopping centers and garages) worth billions of rubles, and his namesake appears in Offshore Leaks, leaked to the network back in 2013. It is unlikely that such a powerful cash flow passed Tsivilev and his predecessor Amana Tuleeva. But the investigators will not be able to get Tuleev. […]
Registered for the mother-in-law of an official, Ekostroy LK LLC, which was headed by Badertdinov Jr., only from 2010 to 2014 easily received land in Leninsk-Kuznetsk and rebuilt a dozen apartment buildings and a kindergarten. Then the company was transferred to an old friend and partner of the family, Yevgeny Reinik, to whom KuznetskStroy LLC was also registered – Alexander Badertdinov was the director of this company. His company Economic House (previously owned by the mayor’s wife Svetlana Telegina) produced foam concrete, from which they built apartment buildings in Leninsk-Kuznetsk.
In general, “Ekostroy LK” mastered at least 4.7 billion rubles on government contracts in the city, the mayor of which was the son-in-law of the owner of the company. In addition to this company, four more companies were registered for Telegin’s mother-in-law: Avtotrans LLC (showed revenue of 15-20 million rubles), Econom + LLC (150-165 million rubles), Polygraph LLC (zero reporting) and LLC “Hunting. Fishing” also with zero accounting. Another partner of the Telegins is Oleg Kravchenko, he has 32 companies registered in the Kemerovo, Novosibirsk regions and Altai. On Svetlana Telegina herself, only real estate remained, which she manages as an individual entrepreneur, and previously she owned the Aksioma company, which received a contract for the construction of an apartment building, as well as a plot of land. This company was liquidated in 2016 and owed the state about 50 thousand rubles in taxes – in 2015, bailiffs, no matter how hard they tried, could not find either the mayor’s wife or her property in Leninsk-Kuznetsk. — Inset K.ru
Vyacheslav Telegin himself, in his speech before the judge, did not agree with the arguments of the prosecution, noting that he needed house arrest because of his concern for two minor children: a son and a daughter.
“Your honor, I did not commit any offenses either during my work in Leninsk-Kuznetsky or in Kemerovo. I did not exert pressure on the witnesses and the accused, and even more so, I did not try to hide or run away. I have two minor children, I need to be with them, help them in their studies,” Telegin said during a speech.
Our correspondent, who was in the courthouse throughout the meeting, said that the former chairman of the government of Kuzbass, accused of fraud, was placed under house arrest for two months – until February 3, 2023. Telegin was forbidden to leave his place of residence, with the exception of visits to medical institutions, he was not allowed to use the telephone, the Internet, correspondence, communicate with other defendants in the case and journalists. The judge allowed only his minor children to be in the house with the former official, although the lawyers asked not to restrict communication with his wife, mother and mother-in-law.
Telegin’s lawyer Yevgeny Khairulin told reporters that the defense was satisfied with the decision.
– If a [решение] correlate with the position of the investigation and with those arguments, demands, petitions that were presented before the court, [то] it most closely matches the case. We saw that the court heard our arguments. <...> We said that Telegin received the indictment on a significant number of pages in small print when he [текст] will be studied, properly assessed, then Telegin may be ready to testify in the framework of the case and express his attitude to the charges, the lawyer said.
As a reminder, on Monday, December 5, NGS42.RU sources reported on the detention of Telegin as part of a criminal investigation. According to the interlocutors of our portal, he faces up to 10 years in prison. On the same day, the court failed to make a decision to restrict the freedom of the former chairman of the government of Kuzbass.
Kommersant.Ru, 07.12.2022, “Court Places Vyacheslav Telegin, Former Head of the Government of Kuzbass under House Arrest”: Vyacheslav Telegin was born in 1969 in Leninsk-Kuznetsk, he has three higher educations: in 2007 he graduated from Kemerovo State University with a degree in finance and credit, in 2010 – Tomsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering with a degree in industrial and civil engineering “. In 2014, he graduated from the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation with a degree in management. Vyacheslav Telegin began his career in 1987 as a surface miner, then as a student of an underground electrician at the mine named after E. Yaroslavsky.
In 2009 he entered the municipal service. From 2010 to 2018, Vyacheslav Telegin was the head of the Leninsk-Kuznetsk urban district. In 2018, the official was appointed deputy governor for the housing and communal and road complex of the Kemerovo region, in 2020 he took the post of chairman of the regional government. On August 5, 2022, Vyacheslav Telegin resigned of his own free will due to deteriorating health. — Inset K.ru
ngs42.ru, 04/20/2022, “The wife of the first deputy governor of Kuzbass declared 33 million income and more than 100 real estate objects”: First Deputy Governor – Chairman of the Government of Kuzbass Vyacheslav Telegin reported on his income for 2021. According to the declaration published on the APK website, the total income for the last year turned out to be more than 600 thousand rubles more than in 2020.
So, Vyacheslav Telegin declared 6,467,795 rubles for 2021. In the previous declaration, he reported on income of 5,778,235 rubles. He owns three land plots, each with an area of 1020 square meters, a residential building of 308.1 square meters and an apartment of 80.8 square meters. He also declared a BMW X7 car, a Harbercraft motorboat, two snowmobiles (Skandic WT600 and Ski-Doo Skandic WT 900) and three trailers. It is worth noting that in the declaration for 2020, Telegin had two motor boats.
But the declaration of the wife of the first deputy governor looks much more interesting and impressive. Over the past year, she earned 33,515,392 rubles. This is 5 million more than in 2020, when the annual income amounted to 28,453,731 rubles. Telegin’s wife owns a Toyota Land Cruiser 200 and more than 100 properties. Namely: 98 garages, an apartment of 72 square meters, a residential building with an area of 444.2 square meters, 10 land plots (4473; 155; 4204; 1655.8; 7347; 2000; 693 188; 4429; 2729.3 and 3728 squares ) and 15 points of “other real estate” (with an area from 102.4 to 3,580.5 squares). It is worth noting that in 2020, the declaration of the wife of the deputy governor did not include an apartment and a land plot of 3,728 square meters. But there was one “other real estate” more. — Inset K.ru
ngs.ru, 12/05/2022, “The ex-chairman of the government of Kuzbass was detained in a corruption case – they want to send him to a pre-trial detention center”: Kuzbass social activist Maxim Uchvatov previously wrote on the Open City portal that since 2009, Telegin’s wife and his mother-in-law have received state contracts for 17 million rubles. In subsequent years, the company, which subsequently changed founders, continued to receive orders from the city, in 2017 they were about 2.5 billion rubles. — Inset K.ru