Both of them were accused of abuse of office, as a result of which the procedure for purchasing titanium ore concentrate was violated. According to investigators, this caused damage to the corporation in the amount of 43 million rubles. Interestingly, at the beginning of the process, none of the parties wanted to stop the case, although even then it was known that the damage caused was compensated. Now the parties do not comment on the decision of the court.
As noted in the database of the Verkhnesaldinsky District Court, last night judge Vyacheslav Belkov ruled to dismiss the criminal case against the former general director of VSMPO-Avisma Mikhail Voevodin and the former head of the legal department Artyom Kislichenko. A measure of a criminal-legal nature – a judicial fine – was applied against them.
As explained in the district court, each of the defendants sent a written apology to the victim, provided charitable assistance to an educational institution in Verkhnyaya Salda, and the damage itself was compensated. As a result, Voevodin was fined 90 thousand rubles, and Kislichenko – 70 thousand rubles.
On similar charges two years earlier, in November 2021, Mikhail Voevodin had already been given a court fine of 80,000 rubles and the criminal case was dismissed. Then he was accused of violating the procedure for the purchase and sale of Feti titanium quality shavings in 2017-2019 – it went to companies that were approved by Vojvodin without a tender.
In 2021, the corporation and Mikhail Voevodin reconciled – as part of an arbitration dispute, he paid 1.7 billion rubles to his former employer.
However, in 2022, investigators of the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region unexpectedly opened a new criminal case on a similar charge – abuse of power. The investigation charged both Voevodin and his former subordinate Kislichenko with violating the rules for the purchase of titanium concentrate. Allegedly, the product was of Kazakh origin, but was purchased not directly from the manufacturer, but through front companies in Asia, which caused its purchase price to rise significantly. Then the amount of damage amounted to 43 million rubles.
As Oktagon.Ural said, at the beginning of the court hearings it turned out that the damage had already been compensated.
However, at that time, none of the parties raised the issue of dismissing the case, as was the case in 2021 when considering the first case against Mikhail Voevodin. But, as sources familiar with the proceedings explained to the publication, during the hearing, the defendants pleaded guilty and offered to dismiss the case in connection with damages.
However, the defendants do not want to comment on the course of the hearings and the decision of the court. Lawyers for Voevodin and Kislichenko refrained from communicating with the press, citing the fact that they had not discussed this issue with their clients. Also, the Verkhnyaya Salda prosecutor’s office, whose employees yesterday supported the prosecution in the case, did not speak out about the court’s decision.
According to the publication, the injured party, VSMPO-Avisma, can legally exercise the right to appeal against the court order and is now allegedly considering this possibility.
