Former head of the Vasileostrovsky district of St. Petersburg Eduard Ilyin detained in Moscow. He has been on the run since December 2022, and was arrested in absentia a year ago.
According to Fontanka, Ilyina detained employees of the St. Petersburg economic police. This happened on February 6 around 16:00. Contrary to stereotypes, you can hide for more than a year not only in a hiding place or basement – in this case we are talking about a good apartment of one of the defendant’s acquaintances. The next destination for the former official is St. Petersburg.
78.ru, 02/07/2024, “The former head of the administration of the Vasileostrovsky district, Ilyin, was charged with bribery”: The former head of the Vasileostrovsky district administration, Eduard Ilyin, was charged with accepting bribes. About it reports the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) for St. Petersburg. […]
According to investigators, from January to August 2022, Ilyin received monthly bribes from the founder of a number of commercial structures for general patronage and unhindered execution of contracts for the protection of activities in the administration building of the Vasileostrovsky district and subordinate institutions. In total, he received at least 5.6 million rubles. The investigation is currently ongoing. According to 78.ru, the ex-head of the Vasileostrovsky district was transferred to Kresty. He does not admit guilt. — Insert K.ru
Troubles for Eduard Ilyin and the entire administration of the Vasileostrovsky district began in 2022. Then, criminal cases related to theft and abuse of authority were initiated in a row when concluding local contracts for the cleaning of medical institutions and their security. Administration employees were detained and arrested, and in December 2022, Eduard Ilyin was “relieved of duty”. Literally the day before, he himself became involved in a bribery case.
Fontanka wrote in detail about the roots of his troubles, but after his dismissal and the initiation of a criminal case, it was not possible to detain him; he disappeared. The FSB and economic police joined the search, in January 2023 Ilyin was arrested in absentia. Catch up another case has been filed – about official forgery (the investigation considered that the former head of the district imitated the investigation of a scandalous story with the fall of one of the officials from the administration stairs). The next case concerned fraud during repairs in Ilyin’s reception area. The court seized the property (including apartments) of the ex-official and his family members.
Fontanka.Ru, 02/17/2023, “Simultaneous bingo session. A Mercedes, 6 apartments, a cottage and a BMW X5 were seized from the relatives of the ex-head of the Vasileostrovsky district”: Eduard Ilyin is accused of receiving a bribe in the amount of 5 million 600 thousand rubles. The sanction of Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code also provides for a fine in the amount of 70 times the amount of the bribe. Which is equal to 392 million. According to our information, such a text was published several days ago in a resolution of the Vasileostrovsky court. And this is not reasoning. […] Operational units easily saw his two apartments on Ho Chi Minh City Street and Lan Highway. But this is just his declaration. Then we pulled ourselves up. We studied not only my wife and son, but also got to my sister. Moreover, they calculated their income, looked at who actually lives where, and how cars move in time and space.
To begin with, the wife was spotted with a Mercedes ML50 with demonstrative license plates 777 and a business class apartment on Poltavskaya Street. Then we studied the BMW X5 with the same signs 777 of the son of Eduard Ilyin. Since the car previously belonged to the father, it was also included in the register. It just begs to be said: “Bingo!” Finally we got to my sister. Okay, two decent apartments in Moscow, a Suzuki Grand Vitara and even a house near a lake in the prestigious Toksovo Leningrad region. A mansion in the city center also appeared. This is a separate dessert. Apartment in building No. 24–26 on the 15th line of Vasilyevsky Island. Registered for my sister. Bought when Eduard Ilyin occupied the chair of the head. […] The district administration on Bolshoy Prospekt is a two-minute walk away. According to the Investigative Committee, Eduard Ilyin lived in this apartment. Right now, this house is selling a two-story and three-room apartment that is almost identical in size – 142.4 meters. They put it up for sale in October for 55 million rubles, then they tried to raise the price to 80 million, but the latest offer on the popular portal was still the same 55 million. – K.ru Insert
Ilyin himself had tried through lawyers to challenge his arrest in absentia, but to no avail.