Money, Lexus, suitcase
The Khamovnichesky Court rendered a verdict in the criminal case of the former director of legal support and corporate governance of Rostec, Alla Laletina. The case of bribes in a state corporation has become perhaps the most scandalous corruption case of this year. Laletina was sentenced to eight years in a general regime colony and a fine of 133 million rubles – twice the amount of bribes she received.
Brilliant career
Alla Laletina lawyer by training. She graduated from the Faculty of International Law of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia (*aggressor country)). In 2005, Laletina headed the project of the hydrocarbon raw materials directorate of Sibur.
Two years later she became director of the corporate legal department of SiburTyumenGaz – OJSC “Sibur-Holding”. From 2009 to 2013, she worked as Deputy General Director for Corporate and Legal Affairs at Tobolsk-Polymer. In 2012, Laletina defended her doctoral dissertation at the IGP RAS. She taught civil law, business law, family law and international private law at the Russian University of Economics. G. V. Plekhanov. Since 2013, she has been the Chairman of the Arbitration Court at Rostec.
In October 2015, Alla Laletina became director of legal support and corporate governance Rostec Group of Companies. In April 2019, she was appointed State Secretary and Director for Legal Support and Corporate Governance of Rostec. And in June 2019 quit from Rostec at his own request.
Love for luxury
Investigation and trial installedthat Alla Laletina from February 2018 to April 2019. received as a bribe a total of 66 million 830 thousand rubles from the ex-general director of the Novosibirsk Artificial Fiber Plant (NZIV) Rustam Ismailov. NZIV is one of the leading Rostec factories that produces head parts Iskander missilesas well as rockets for multiple launch rocket systems.
For this, Laletina promised Rustam Ismailov general patronage, which implied that he would remain in his position, as well as financing for the modernization of the enterprise. As follows from the case materials, for the first time Alla Laletina demanded money from the general director of NZIV in her office two months after Mr. Izmailov was appointed head of the defense enterprise, and wanted receive monthly 6 million rubles each.
According to the indictment, the matter was not limited to money. Ismailov also reimbursed Laletina’s expenses for a vacation in Turkey in the amount of 3.1 million rubles, and paid for the purchase of a Persian carpet for 3 million rubles. Moreover, the lady’s desires were very different.
For example, Laletina asked Izmailov to drive her Lexus to the island of Sardinia during her vacation in Italy and back to Moscow.
Ismailov also gave the top manager a Lou Vuitton suitcase and even a juicer for her mother. What exactly: a suitcase, a juicer or something else has overwhelmed the patience of the enterprise manager will remain unclear. But Ismailov confessed. In fact, the business was built on them. As a result, Ismailov issued confession, and as a result were released from criminal liability for giving a bribe.
“Dead Souls”
It is worth recalling that by the time the investigation began, Laletina had already been under house arrest for several months as part of another criminal case. Back in December 2020, she was charged with fraud on a particularly large scale. According to him, Laletina and former deputy general directors of the defense research and production concern Tekhmash Lyudmila Zhivotovskaya And Ekaterina Tyutyunikova hired several employees. But their employment was fictitious, and the managers spent the salaries of the “dead souls” at their own discretion. The damage to the state from her actions was estimated at 80 million rubles.
Laletina served house arrest until May 2021 in a private house in the village of Landshaft near Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway. However, after charges were filed in the bribery case, the investigation went to court with a petition for her arrest, which was granted. Judge Diana Mishchenko said that Laletina’s time in custody from May 25, 2021 will be credited. To ensure repayment of a fine of 133 million rubles, the court seized funds in Laletina’s accounts, her real estate and cars totaling more than 100 million rubles.
Laletina did not admit her guilt. The defendant’s defense was dissatisfied with the verdict and intends to appeal it.