Vladimir Doroshenko was given 7 years for a million
The Alexandrovsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory sentenced the former deputy of the Stavropol Regional Duma Vladimir Doroshenko. He was found guilty of handing over to an employee FSB in the form of a bribe of 1 million rubles. Thus, he tried to negotiate an end to the verification of the use of a grant allocated by the Ministry of Agriculture for the development of his agricultural cooperative. The court found Mr. Doroshenko’s guilt proven and sentenced him to seven years in a strict regime colony and a fine. An intermediary in bribery was sentenced to a more lenient sentence – three years in a general regime colony. The defense intends to appeal this verdict.
As it became known from the source of the editorial office, on May 20, Vladimir Doroshenko was sentenced to seven years and a fine of two million rubles for giving a bribe in the amount of one million to a law enforcement officer. In return, he had to do everything so that the newly-minted deputy could evade criminal prosecution for embezzling 70 million allocated by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Economic Development of the Stavropol Territory to support agriculture.
A criminal case against the then youngest Duma deputy of the Stavropol Territory was initiated in March 2021. According to the regional department of the TFR, the materials of the operational development of the FSB of Russia in the region formed the basis of the case.
According to the materials of the case, in February 2021, Vladimir Doroshenko, through his acquaintance, “handed over a bribe in the amount of 1 million rubles to the detective of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Stavropol Territory acting as part of the operational-search activity.” The money, according to the materials of the case, was intended “for stopping the verification of the theft of funds from a grant allocated for the development of the material and technical base of the Novokavkazsky agricultural consumer processing cooperative, headed by the deputy. The transfer of money was under the control of operatives and was documented by the FSB of Russia in the Stavropol Territory.
“After receiving subsidies, the suspect did not purchase equipment, as a result of which he stole funds from the budget of the Stavropol Territory in the amount of more than 15 million rubles,” the report says.
The same fictitious documents allowed Doroshenko a month later to again receive a subsidy from the regional budget to reimburse part of the costs of agricultural consumer cooperatives for a total amount of more than 4 million 900 thousand rubles. In total, the damage to the regional treasury amounted to nearly 20 million rubles. According to the investigation committee, the criminal cases have already been combined into one proceeding.
In relation to Mr. Doroshenko and his acquaintance, who participated in the transfer of money, a criminal case was initiated under the article on giving a bribe (clause “b” part 2 of article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and mediation in bribery (clause “b” part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). 3 article 291.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). On March 29, 2021, the court granted the request of the investigation, authorizing the arrest of the deputy.
After reviewing the case materials, the Aleksandrovsky District Court found Vladimir Doroshenko and the intermediary guilty of “giving a bribe to employees of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Stavropol Territory on a large scale” and “mediation in bribery, that is, the direct transfer of a bribe on behalf of the bribe giver.”
The court sentenced the ex-deputy to seven years in prison in a strict regime colony and a fine “in the amount of twice the amount of the bribe” in the amount of 2 million rubles. The mediator, by court decision, will spend three years in a general regime colony.
As specified in the press service of the Aleksandrovsky District Court, the defendants and the defense consider the verdict unfair and will appeal against it.
Vladimir Doroshenko is a well-known figure in the Stavropol Territory.
While still a student, he was elected a member of the Youth Public Chamber of the region. Then he led a peasant farm in the Aleksandrovsky district. In 2017, he worked for half a year as a deputy general director at Stavropol Stud Farm No. 170 LLC, a well-known enterprise in the region and beyond, which was also engaged in breeding thoroughbred horses of the Akhal-Teke breed. From July to November 2017, he held the position of manager of affairs of the administration of the Novokavkazsky village council. And then, in November 2017, he headed the Novokavkazsky agricultural enterprise. In 2018, his enterprise was among three cooperatives that received grants for the development of agricultural cooperation from the regional Ministry of Agriculture. He was elected to the Duma of the Stavropol Territory in the by-elections held in the Aleksandrovsky District in 2019. He was a member of the United Russia faction, worked on two committees: on industry and health.
How Vladimir Doroshenko issued a grant for 5.25 million rubles to a controlled farm
The deputy of the Duma of the Stavropol Territory is associated with an entrepreneur who is suspected of misusing grant funds, a law enforcement source told NewsTracker.
The Stavropol farmer was convicted of inefficient use of a grant allocated by the Ministry of Agriculture. The dairy shop, bought for 8.5 million rubles, was installed with violations, and soon ceased to function at all. NewsTracker found out that Vladimir Doroshenko, a member of the Duma of the Stavropol Territory, may be involved in fraud with budget money.
The missing shop
In 2017, the head of a peasant farm from Aleksandrovsky district Khizri Khadirov received a grant in the amount of 5.25 million rubles from the Ministry of Agriculture. The grant was provided as part of the departmental target program “Development of family livestock farms based on peasant (farm) farms in the Stavropol Territory for 2015-2017.”
With the grant and his own funds – a total of 8.45 million rubles – the farmer bought a modular portable milk processing plant. Under the terms of the grant, the entrepreneur had to install this workshop on his farm and supply dairy products to social institutions. But everything went wrong from the very beginning.
The mobile dairy plant was taken to the territory of Butter Plant No. 3 in the village of Aleksandrovskoye, where it was installed on a rented area. At first, fermented milk products were indeed supplied to social institutions, including the Regional Clinical Anti-TB Dispensary and the Rosinka Stavropol shelter.
But in September 2020, the shop stopped working. At the same time, under the terms of the grant, the enterprise had to operate for another five years after receiving support, that is, at least until 2022.
Who owns the shop
It is noteworthy that the dairy shop, bought with the grant funds, was installed in a room rented not by the grant recipient Khizri Khadirov, but by another businesswoman – Nadezhda Korobko. Especially for the installation of equipment, in October 2017, she concluded a lease agreement with Maslozavod No. 3 LLC.
The cost of rent was small – 5 thousand rubles annually. But from the very beginning, the tenant did not pay even this money. As a result, by July 2020, a debt of 13,744 rubles was formed. When Nadezhda Korobko refused to repay the debt, the oil plant filed a lawsuit. The plaintiff demanded to recover from Korobko the entire amount of the accumulated debt and to dismantle the milk processing shop.
In August 2020, the Arbitration Court of the Stavropol Territory fully satisfied the claim. Since then, the dairy shop has been idle.
Why is the MP here?
According to a NewsTracker source, Vladimir Doroshenko, a member of the Duma of the Stavropol Territory, was behind the grant from the Ministry of Agriculture from the very beginning. Allegedly, he was preparing an application and documents, and he was the actual beneficiary of state aid.
Doroshenko himself declined to comment on this information.
However, a simple analysis of the connections between Vladimir Doroshenko, Nadezhda Korobko and Khizri Khadirov allows us to conclude that the deputy is cunning.
Doroshenko is the chairman of the Novokavkazsky Agricultural Consumer Processing Cooperative (SPPC), registered in the village of Aleksandrovskoye. The main activity of SPPK is the production of milk and dairy products. Novokavkazsky supplied dairy products to the same social institutions that were supplied with products from the workshop purchased with grant funds and installed on the territory of Butter Plant No. 3 on behalf of Nadezhda Korobko. Among these institutions are the Blagodarnenskaya district hospital, the Ipatovskaya district hospital, the Rosinka shelter, the Romashka sanatorium, and others.
Vladimir Doroshenko’s personal phone number in the SPARK-Interfax database is also listed as the phone number of businesswoman Nadezhda Korobko. The NewsTracker correspondent was convinced of this by calling the number indicated and talking to Doroshenko.
Such cases, when grants from the Stavropol Ministry of Agriculture are used for other purposes or inefficiently, are not uncommon. And they occur due to the lack of proper control on the part of the department over the expenditure of budgetary funds.