Maxim Petrov and Pavel Tatartsev ate “RK-Active”
Former heads of Roskosmos’ subsidiary received 2.5 and 2 years probation for embezzlement of 70 million rubles.
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© “Kommersant”09/08/2022, Salaries ate the loan, Photo: “Roskosmos”
Alexey Sokovnin
The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the former heads of JSC RK-Aktiv, a subsidiary of Roskosmos, Maxim Petrov and Pavel Tatartsev to short suspended terms. They were found guilty of abuse of power. […]
The story that became the subject of court proceedings began on November 24, 2016, when in the newly created RK-Aktiv JSC, the General Director was appointed Deputy Head of Roskosmos Maxim Petrov, who oversaw corporate governance, legal and property issues at the state corporation. As conceived by the initiator of the creation of RK-Active, the then head of Roscosmos Igor Komarovthe company was supposed to manage the non-core assets of Roscosmos. […]
As it was established in court, having taken a position and received a loan of 50 million rubles from Roskosmos. to finance current activities, Maxim Petrov soon hired ten employees at RK-Aktiv, eight of whom took senior positions with salaries of up to 1 million rubles. per month. […]
As follows from the court decision, until August 2018, RK-Aktiv did not conclude a single agreement on the sale of non-core assets, even when profitable projects were offered to the company’s management.
“Kommersant”, 03/22/2019, “In the “RK-Active” of “Roskosmos” was only a liability”: The board of directors included Anton Zhiganov (at that time the executive director for commercialization and business development of Roscosmos), Dmitry Pshennikov (management of the state corporation), Oleg Lobanov (adviser to the general director of the state corporation on financial matters), Andrey Chebotok (director of the department of property relations ” Roskosmos), as well as the head of RK-Active.
On the same day, Mr. Petrov approved the company’s staffing table and concluded employment contracts with employees, and, as later inspectors established, out of nine people employed at RK-Aktiv, eight people held senior positions with salaries of up to 1 million rubles, and one was listed as ” specialist” with a salary of about 150 thousand rubles. Already on December 2, 2016, additional agreements on remote work were signed with six employees of the company, indicating its place at the addresses of their actual residence. The company itself was de jure located at 55 Aviamotornaya Street. […] Mr. Petrov, having received more than 11.5 million rubles. salaries and more than 5 million rubles. final payments and compensation, was fired. — Inset K.ru
According to law enforcers, the successor of Mr. Petrov, Pavel Tatartsev, who had previously held the post of executive director of JSC RK-Aktiv, was not interested in these issues either. Already with his participation, the loan that was not returned on time was not only extended until the end of 2017, but also increased by another 20 million rubles.
When he was appointed to the post of head of Roskosmos Dmitry Rogozin, he insisted on the dismissal of Pavel Tatartsev. The place of the latter on June 1, 2018 was taken by Dmitry Shangin, and an audit was appointed in the company. She found that RK-Aktiv had no funds in the account, but there were salary arrears to the tax authorities.
As a result, Maxim Petrov and Pavel Tatartsev were prosecuted under Part 1 of Art. 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of official powers). […] As a result, both former heads of RK-Active were found guilty of abuse of office and received suspended sentences: Mr. Petrov – 2.5 years, Mr. Tatartsev – 2 years. The court also partially satisfied the claim of Roskosmos against the defendants, obliging the latter to pay damages in the amount of 70 million rubles. out of the 73 million that were requested.
