Source A verdict was passed in the case of bribery in the execution of the state defense order. The Moscow garrison military court sentenced to five years in prison in a strict regime colony the former deputy head of the department of the Ministry of Defense for ensuring the state defense order, reserve colonel Leonid Kharlamov. The man was found guilty of systematically receiving bribes from the general director of the Voronezh JSC RIF Alexander Ivanov in the total amount of 6.52 million rubles. for providing the enterprise with state orders and general patronage. In addition to the term in the colony, the colonel of the reserve was deprived of his military rank, 3.9 million rubles found during the search, as well as property worth 2.3 million rubles received as a bribe.
At the final stage of the investigation of the criminal case on corruption, Leonid Kharlamov, the former deputy head of the department of the Ministry of Defense for ensuring the state defense order, realizing that otherwise he would face from 7 to 15 years in prison, began to actively cooperate with the investigation. He pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and filed a petition for the case to be considered by the court in a special manner.
At the same time, at the end of September of this year, during the next extension of the measure of restraint, the court took into account the complete repentance of the reserve colonel, recognizing it as a “legal way to mitigate responsibility”, and ordered Leonid Kharlamov a ban on certain actions, which was supported by the investigation and the prosecutor's office.
It took only two meetings for the presiding judge Vadim Korchagin to pass a special sentence on Leonid Kharlamov.
At the first hearing of the parties on November 22, the state prosecutor asked the court to sentence the defendant to imprisonment for a term of seven years in a strict regime colony and to fine him 18.6 million rubles. For the colonel and his defense, who asked for the maximum lenient sentence, taking into account both recognition and awards, this sounded somewhat unexpected.
It took Vadim Korchagin only 50 minutes to announce the verdict itself, for which Leonid Kharlamov arrived from home on his own. He recognized as fully proven guilt in committing a crime under Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (receiving a bribe on an especially large scale). Based on this, the court sent a retired colonel to a strict regime colony for five years, depriving him of his rank, and also forbade him, after serving his sentence, to hold administrative and economic positions in the civil service for three years.
3.9 million rubles, which the investigation confiscated from Mr. Kharlamov during a search of his apartment, the court turned in favor of the state. .3 million rubles Immediately after the words “Do you understand the verdict?” the man was handcuffed.
Leonid Kharlamov took up the position of Deputy Head of the Department of Armaments and Military Equipment of the General Forces and Interspecies Support – Head of the Department of Missile Weapons of the Ground Forces, Multiple Launch Rocket Systems and Anti-tank Missile Systems of the Department for Ensuring the State Defense Order of the Ministry of Defense in 2019. According to the GVSU of the ICR, almost immediately after that, he had the intent to receive bribes from businessmen who collaborated with the state defense order department for allocating them lucrative contracts.
One of such enterprises, as it turned out during the pre-investigation check, was the NPO RIF Corporation located in Voronezh, which specializes in the development and manufacture of products for railway transport, thermoelectric modules, thick-film heating elements, hybrid microelectronics, acoustoelectronics, photodetectors, low power electric motors, etc.
Colonel Kharlamov offered General Director Alexander Ivanov, for a monthly monetary reward, to provide “general patronage” to his enterprise, including the company among the executors of state contracts for the development and production of military products.
Entrepreneur from July 2019 to March 2022 through intermediaries handed over to Leonid Kharlamov in Moscow a total of 6 million 520 thousand rubles. contracts concluded on behalf of the Ministry of Defense with JSC RIF, about which the department of military counterintelligence of the FSB was informed. From there, the materials were sent to the GVSU of the ICR, which opened a criminal case against Leonid Kharlamov. The interrogated entrepreneur, in order not to become accused of giving bribes (part 4 of article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), wrote a frank confession and did not fall under criminal prosecution. It was not possible to get a comment from lawyer Leonid Kharlamov about whether they would appeal the verdict.