Former Minister of Transport of Karelia Alexey Kaydalov found guilty of accepting a bribe on an especially large scale during the reconstruction of the Petrozavodsk airport.
Petrozavodsk City Court sentenced Kaidalov on Monday, November 21, to 15 years in prison in a strict regime colony, the press service of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Karelia reports.
The ex-head of the Karelian Ministry of Transport was also fined 40 million rubles and deprived of the right to hold public office for 10 years. The court verdict did not enter into force, Kaydalov’s defense announced that they would appeal against it.
stolicaonego.ru, 11/21/2022, “The property of ex-Minister of Karelia Kaydalov convicted of bribery will be under arrest until he pays a fine”: Shares in ownership of real estate and a foreign car will be arrested until the ex-head of the Ministry of Transport of Karelia pays a 40 million ruble criminal fine, the city court of Petrozavodsk said. […] In particular, Judge Merkov upheld the arrest of the property of the Kaydalov family.
“To the property of Kaidalov: a land plot with an area of 1.2 thousand square meters, located in the village of Peniki, Lomonosovsky district in the Leningrad region; 1/2 share in the ownership of a residential area of 155 sq.m, located in St. Petersburg, on Pobeda street, 3; 1/2 share in the ownership of 1/12 share of non-residential premises with an area of 589.6 sq.m, located in St. Petersburg, Pobedy street, 3; 1/2 share in the ownership of a Mercedes car,” Judge Merkov read in the operative part of the verdict. — Inset K.ru
The court found Kaydalov’s guilt proved, he was charged with taking two bribes. According to the investigation, together with the deputy director of the Petrozavodsk Airport budgetary institution, Igor Volchek, Kaydalov received a bribe of 800,000 rubles from one of the airport reconstruction contractors, the first part of the amount of 1.5 million rubles.
Another contractor from St. Petersburg gave Kaidalov and Volchek another 1 million rubles – part of a bribe of 3 million rubles.
For these amounts, the contractors were promised assistance in concluding a contract, as well as unhindered acceptance and payment for the work performed on the construction of facilities on the territory of Petrozavodsk airport. The state contract for these works worth more than 820 million rubles was signed in August 2019.
stolicaonego.ru, 02.10.2020, “Ex-Minister of Transport of Karelia Kaydalov, who was arrested for a bribe, was left behind bars until December”: According to investigators, the sole founder and general director of the construction company SK Petrograd from St. Petersburg, Sergei Fursov, gave them a bribe. On December 23, 2017, Petrozavodsk Airport signed an 11 million contract with this company, which was the only participant in the competition, for the construction of a site for the company’s special transport. Actively contributing to the investigation of this corruption crime, 39-year-old Sergei Fursov, unfortunately, died suddenly in March after a heart attack. However, according to our publication, the investigation has a video recording of the testimony of Sergei Fursov, where he reports on giving a bribe. — Inset K.ru
Kaydalov and Volchek were detained in February 2020 in one of the shopping and entertainment centers in Petrozavodsk while receiving a bribe. During a search in the pocket of the sheepskin coat of the head of the Ministry of Transport, the security forces found almost 300 thousand rubles. Kaydalov pleaded not guilty, he stated in court that he was the victim of a slander. Volchek was sentenced to 4 years in prison in February last year. He was also fined 7 million rubles. The investigation of the criminal case against the ex-minister was completed last year, “DP” wrote.
Aleksey Kaidalov has been in the government of Karelia since 2018, before that he worked in St. Petersburg, including in the structures of the city government.
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It is located in a very prestigious place – in the city of Pavlovsk near St. Petersburg, in the cottage settlement “Onegin Park”. What is especially curious is that a beautiful brick house is located literally next to the famous Pavlovsk Park, where Tsar Paul I liked to relax with his family.
Our experts estimated the cost of the mansion built by Kaydalov at about 40 million rubles. And this is without taking into account the cost of land, which is very expensive in this place. Interestingly, according to our information, the mansion next to Pavlovsky Park is owned by the 29-year-old daughter of the ex-minister. In this regard, we recall that if Kaidalov’s guilt is proven, in this case the court has the right to impose a criminal fine on him in the amount of 60 times the amount of the bribe.
During a search in the cottage, in the presence of Kaidalov’s wife, five Swiss watches (pictured) of luxury brands Breguet and Vacheron Constantin, which are considered among the most expensive, were seized here.
The cost of such watches, according to the official websites of trademarks, starts from hundreds of thousands of rubles and reaches up to 500 thousand dollars. But there are also more expensive models.
As it turned out, Breguet watches, like those seized in Kaidalov’s cottage, according to the official website, cost about 6 million rubles.
Recall that a former employee of the administration of St. Petersburg Alexei Kaydalov, who from November 2014 to August 2016 was the vice-governor and at the same time the head of the Department of Construction, Housing, Energy and Transport of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, was considered one of the wealthiest members of the team Artur Parfenchikov.
According to the latest income declaration of the former head of the Ministry of Transport, in 2018, Mr. Kaydalov, together with his wife, owned several apartments and land plots. The couple also owned an apartment in Spain, where, for obvious reasons, a search was not conducted. At the same time, officially, the annual income of the Karelian minister in the same year, 2018, amounted to about 2.2 million rubles. […]
