Sergei Ionkin will be responsible for the conflict of shareholders
The court recognized the ex-adviser to the general director of NCC Sergei Ionkin guilty of attempting to bribe a law enforcement official. He wanted to get criminal cases opened against the co-owner of the company, but received 10 years of strict regime and a fine of 208.6 million rubles.
10 years of strict regime
The Tverskoy Court of Moscow found ex-adviser to the general director of the National Computer Corporation (NCC) Sergei Ionkin guilty of attempted bribery of $50 thousand for illegally initiating criminal cases against one of the co-owners of NCC Alexandra Kalininahis wife and son, Kommersant reported.
Alexander KalininIonkin was sentenced to 10 years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 208.6 million rubles. – thirty times the amount of the bribe at the exchange rate at the time of the crime. The convict did not admit his guilt.
A criminal case against the adviser to the general director of the NCC was initiated at the end of October 2021. At the same time, Ionkin was detained by operatives of the internal security department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow after transferring a bribe to an intermediary. By the decision of the Presnensky Court, the accused was sent to a pre-trial detention center, since then the preventive measure has not changed.
On August 19, under the control of operatives, the intermediary, during a new meeting at Coffeemania, but this time on Tverskaya Street, told the interlocutor that the bribe would have to be handed over to the head of the internal security department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the TiNAO, who would fulfill all the necessary requirements. Soon the total amount of the illegal reward was determined – $100 thousand. Mr. Ionkin demanded a personal meeting with the policeman even before transferring the money. At the end of October 2021, the real head of the district CSS unit met with Sergei Ionkin at the Taki Da restaurant on Kutuzovsky Prospekt and confirmed the intermediary’s words. Later, on Strastnoy Boulevard, the defendant handed over half of the agreed amount, wrapped in a plastic bag, to Mr. Grigoriev, after which he was detained by operatives.
Evil intent
The intent to commit a corruption crime arose in Ionkin during the period from April 2 to July 22, 2021, as the publication writes.
The main asset of NCC in 2021 was the developer and manufacturer of computer equipment, Aquarius Group of Companies, which was included in the list of systemically important organizations. Because of control over the Group of Companies, disagreements arose between Alexander Kalinin and his son Alexei Kalinin, on the one hand, and other co-owners – Evgeny Lachkov, Leonid Goldenberg and Denis Frolov. Ionkin represented the interests of Kalinin’s opponents.
The dispute was considered in arbitration courts. However, as the case says, Ionkin began to independently, without devoting the other co-owners to his criminal plan, look for other ways to resolve the current situation. With the help of a bribe of $100 thousand, Ionkin planned to get two cases initiated – the destruction of NCC’s business and financial documents, as well as causing property damage to the company in the amount of more than 750 million rubles. Not only Kalinina’s father and son, but also the wife of the co-owner of NKK were to become defendants in the case.
What wasn’t shared
According to the CNews100 rating: The largest IT companies in Russia, at the end of 2019, NCC had the status of the largest Russian IT company with total revenue of 215.7 billion rubles. In addition to Aquarius, which is a large Russian manufacturer of computer equipment, servers and storage systems, NCC also includes the Systematics group, National Platform and the Dubai-based National Computer Corporation Middle East.
Alexander Kalinin owned 33% of the company and intended to buy out a total share of 64% from NCC partners. At the same time, Leonid Goldenberg and Evgeny Lachkov, who each owned 32% of NCC, were going to cede their shares to Denis Frolov, co-owner of the Astra Linux group. Consolidation of NCC’s assets would allow it to form the largest Russian holding in the field of microelectronics and data storage systems (DSS).
As Kommersant previously reported, the investigation into the circumstances of the cartel agreement in the supply of office equipment for the Central Election Commission began in May 2021. And the case was based on the findings of an audit by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of the results of a competition for the supply of system units necessary for the functioning of the GAS “Elections” system. The tender for their purchase was held in March 2016, and its winner, the Business Computers Group company, undertook to supply the necessary equipment for the Central Election Commission in the amount of 645.8 million rubles. The winning company ultimately supplied the Central Executive Committee with Hewlett-Packard brand units manufactured in the Czech Republic. However, after summing up the results of the auction, the customer’s federal information center turned to the FAS with a statement. It talked about a possible conspiracy between the tender participants, among which, in addition to the winner, were also the companies AMI-Network and the subsidiary of the National Computer Corporation, PC Aquarius.
