Another criminal case against the former head of the capital of Primorye Oleg brought to court Gumenyuk — this time on charges of abuse of office. According to investigators, even at the time when Oleg Gumenyuk headed the economic department of the administration of Primorye, he committed a fraudulent operation with a fictitious repair of a pleasure boat, as a result, the regional budget suffered damage in the amount of more than 17 million rubles. The defense side stated that there were no judicial prospects for the second case against the ex-mayor, since the statute of limitations for criminal liability had expired. Earlier Oleg Gumenyuk was sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption.
Today, the prosecutor’s office of Primorye announced the approval of the indictment and transfer to court for consideration on merits the second criminal case against the ex-mayor of Vladivostok Oleg Gumenyuk. “He is accused of committing a crime under Part 1 of Art. 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of power),” the supervisory authority informs. The act incriminated to Oleg Gumenyuk was committed between March and May 2017, when he headed the economic department of the administration of the Primorsky Territory.
According to the TFR, Oleg Gumenyuk signed three contracts worth about 9.5 million rubles. for the repair of the boat Infini 36, which is in the operational management of the economic department.
The second participant in the fraudulent scheme, according to investigators, Denis Maksutov, the former head of the maritime transport operation service of the economic department, signed acceptance certificates for obviously not completed work under contracts that were paid in full. Then a representative of the contractor company bought a SeaRay SB400 boat for 8 million rubles. This boat was transferred to the use of the economic management, and in return the contractor received the Infini 36 for use “on account of the alleged difference in the cost of the new boat and payment under fictitious contracts.” At the same time, the Infini 36 boat was not officially alienated from the property of the Primorye administration, and the SeaRay SB400 boat was not put on the balance sheet of the management. To hide the fraud, the tail number belonging to Infini 36 was applied to the SeaRay SB400 boat. The damage to the regional administration is estimated at 17.2 million rubles.
“The task was to get a beautiful pleasure boat for use by the economic administration. Having no legal grounds to sell the old one and buy a new one, they did it according to such a complex scheme, ”the Primorye prosecutor’s office explained to Kommersant.
Oleg Gumenyuk’s lawyer Alexander Kitaev told Kommersant that the client does not plead guilty in the second criminal case.
“But this case has no judicial prospects, since the statute of limitations for criminal liability has expired,” the lawyer said. He expects the court to decide to terminate the proceedings.
Recall, on January 8, the Leninsky District Court of Vladivostok found the former mayor Oleg Gumenyuk guilty of bribery in the total amount of 38 million rubles. and sentenced to 16 years and 6 months in a strict regime colony and a fine of 150 million rubles. In early May, the Primorsky Regional Court, having considered the appeal of the defense, commuted the punishment of the ex-mayor to 12 years in a strict regime colony. The former official pleaded not guilty.
Oleg Gumenyuk has served as Acting Mayor of Vladivostok since December 2018 before being elected Mayor by the local Duma in March 2019. On May 18, 2021, he resigned from the post of head of Vladivostok, after the presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, Yuri Trutnev, complained to him about the quality of the repair of the children’s technopark, and the governor of Primorye, Oleg Kozhemyako, said that the work of the mayor did not satisfy residents.
After being elected mayor, Oleg Gumenyuk said that he did not plan to repeat the fate of his predecessors as head of Vladivostok, three of whom were convicted of various crimes.
