In Moscow, the court arrested for two months the former deputy head of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Information and Analytical Support Center for the State Antimonopoly Service “Pravosudie” of the Judicial Department” Roman Kalina in the case of a multimillion-dollar fraud. It is reported by “Kommersant”.
The defendant is the son of the former head of the Moscow Department of Education, Isaac Kalina. The investigator insisted on sending Roman Kalina to a pre-trial detention center, in particular, due to the fact that both the suspect and his father have many informal connections in law enforcement agencies and other state structures. The representative of the GSU specified that this could lead to pressure on witnesses and the court.
According to the investigation, in 2014 Kalina stole more than 40 million rubles when supplying software (software) to the judicial department through the controlled company Vintegra Security. Together with him, the general director of the enterprise, Taras Ponomarev, is involved in the case. Investigators believe that on September 3, 2014, Kalina and Ponomarev prepared design and tender documentation for participation in a tender for software supplies. They drew up the documents in such a way that Vintegra Security won. As a result, a contract for 196 million rubles was signed with the company. In November 2015, the department was supplied with software worth 67.9 million rubles.
Later it turned out that its real value was 27 million rubles. The rest of the money, according to the TFR, was stolen by the defendants.
“Kommersant”, 07/17/2023, “The investigation did not agree with the prices for software”: In his petition, the investigator indicated that the former deputy head of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Roman Kalina is suspected of committing a serious crime, for which a punishment of more than three years in prison is provided.
Taking into account all these circumstances, the investigator concluded, it is not possible for Roman Kalina to choose a preventive measure not related to detention. The representative of the GSU added that the defendant regularly, on average once a month, travels abroad, according to the investigation, he has about two dozen accounts opened in foreign banks, for example, in Turkey and Kazakhstan, and in the United States he has his own business real estate. The defendant’s family – a wife and three children – has been living in the UK for a long time, according to investigators. These circumstances, according to the investigation, speak in favor of the fact that Mr. Kalina, if he continues to be at large, has every opportunity to hide from Russian justice. Finally, the investigator noted that not all persons who may be involved in the crime have been identified, and the suspect, remaining outside the pre-trial detention center, may collude with them in order to agree on a position on the case. And the defendant himself, according to the representative of the GSU, is checked for involvement in the commission of similar crimes in the execution of government contracts.
The defense was against satisfying the petition of the investigation, pointing out that the arguments of the representative of the State Investigation Department were not supported by evidence. However, the court agreed with the investigator’s arguments and arrested Roman Kalina for two months. Now, according to the law, within ten days after the choice of a measure of restraint, the person under investigation must be charged. Taras Ponomarev meanwhile placed under house arrest. — Inset K.ru
