Former Deputy Minister of Energy Anatoly Tikhonov, convicted of taking a bribe of 227 million rubles, was detained and arrested in 2020 in the case of embezzlement. This was reported to TASS on Wednesday by law enforcement agencies.
“Former Deputy Energy Minister Anatoly Tikhonov, in respect of whom it was established that he had received a monetary reward in the amount of 227 million rubles, was detained in September 2020 in a case of embezzlement,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, during a government hour in the State Duma, said that in the course of joint events with the Russian FSB, Rosfinmonitoring and the federal treasury, the fact of receiving a bribe in the amount of 227 million rubles by the former deputy energy minister was established, without specifying who he was talking about. .
According to the Investigative Committee, the investigation established the involvement of the former director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “REA”, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Anatoly Tikhonov, his adviser Roman Ryzhkov, as well as the vice-presidents of Lanit JSC Vladimir Makarov and Viktor Serebryakov to embezzle at least 603 million rubles allocated for the creation of an information system. They face fraud charges and were arrested in September 2020.
Tikhonov was appointed deputy head of the Ministry of Energy in the summer of 2019 and was relieved of his post in April 2021, six months after his arrest.
Kommersant.Ru, 10/19/2022, “Deputy Minister added corruption”: Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, speaking in the State Duma as part of the “government hour”, said that the police, together with the FSB, Rosfinmonitoring and the Federal Treasury, had established the fact that the former deputy minister of energy had received especially large bribes. According to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the funds were transferred through intermediaries using current accounts in foreign banks and “intended to assist in the conclusion of government contracts.” The minister did not name the person involved, however, as Kommersant’s sources in the police department clarified, it was about Anatoly Tikhonov, who has been in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center for more than two years. — Inset K.ru