On February 19, the Syktyvkar City Court handed down a verdict in the new trial of the former deputy chairman of the Komi government Konstantina Romadanova. The ex-official was found guilty of fraud with utility tariffs and was taken into custody in the courtroom.
Let us remind you that the investigation of a new criminal case against the defendant was conducted by the Russian FSB Directorate for the Komi Republic. Prosecutor asked to appoint Konstantin Romadanov was sentenced to eight and a half years in a general regime colony, a fine of 170 million rubles (including sentence 2018) and take him into custody in the courtroom.
Konstantin Romadanov and his lawyer continued to insist in court arguments that the artificial inflation of gross revenues of several private energy companies could not lead to an increase in electricity tariffs in the region. According to the defendant and his lawyer, there are no victims in the case. The alleged damage to Romadanov in the amount of 168 million rubles, according to lawyer Alexey Aleshkin, has not been confirmed by forensic examination. During his last words, Konstantin Romadanov also did not admit guilt.
On February 19, the court sentenced him to imprisonment for six years and six months in a maximum security correctional colony with a fine of 160 million rubles and a ban on holding positions related to the performance of organizational, administrative and economic functions in state and local bodies self-government, state and municipal institutions, organizations, enterprises for a period of five years. The punishment was imposed taking into account the verdict of the Zamoskvoretsky court in 2018.
The seizure imposed on the defendant’s property was also preserved. Konstantin Romadanov was taken into custody in the courtroom.
According to investigators, the crime was committed by Romadanov from January 2011 to September 2015 as part of a group of four people, which included the director of Republican Grid Company LLC Oleg Ostashov and his two deputies Sergei Komarovsky and Olga Mashkina. All the defendants in the case, except Romadanov, have already heard their verdicts and been punished. Thus, in May 2018, Oleg Ostashov, who entered into a pre-trial agreement, was sentenced under a special procedure. He fully agreed with the accusation, the case was considered without a judicial investigation. The court sentenced Ostashov to a fine of 1 million rubles. The trial of Komarovsky and Mashkina lasted for about a year. It all ended in March 2019 with a guilty verdict. Komarovsky, who was 68 years old at that time, was sentenced by the court to three years in a general regime colony, and Mashkin to two years in a general regime colony.
As follows from the verdicts of 2018-2019, at the direction of Romadanov, the director of the Republican Grid Company, Ostashov, sought the approval of unreasonably high electricity tariffs for companies associated with Romadanov. Komarovsky and Mashkina helped him with this. Ostashov provided the Komi Tariff Service with documents containing false information about the cost of installed equipment during technological connection to power grids in Syktyvkar, Ukhta, the Finno-Ugric ethnopark in the village of Yb, Syktyvdinsky district, and the Seregovo sanatorium. As a rule, the cost of equipment was overestimated by 30-50%.
The Republican Tariff Service was provided with deliberately false information about the cost of investment programs and the size of the required gross revenue (GRR) of Republican Grid Company LLC and Energotrade LLC. As a result, the cost of investment programs of these companies and, accordingly, the NGR included costs that these organizations did not actually bear, as well as increased amounts of depreciation.
With the participation of deputy directors, from 2011 to 2015, electrical equipment was purchased at an inflated price from affiliated intermediary organizations Komigaztrans LLC and Regional Grid Company LLC (Kirov), which the intermediaries bought from manufacturers at a selling price.
As a result of the actions of the criminal group, inflated tariffs were approved for companies controlled by Konstantin Romadanov: Regional Grid Company LLC and Energotrade LLC. The total damage amounted to 168 million rubles.
bnkomi.ru, 02/19/2024, “The prosecutor explained how the defendants in the new case acted Alexey Chernov and Konstantin Romadanov”: According to the indictment, another person involved in the case and the ex-CEO of Vimplecom is wanted Mikhail Slobodin headed CJSC Integrated Energy Systems (CJSC IES), with which the resource supply organization was affiliated. […] In addition, according to the investigation, Romadanov provided general patronage to the company. In exchange, according to the investigation, the management of IES CJSC transferred bribes to Romadanov in the form of shares in the resource supply organization and money. According to the conclusion, Romadanov involved the former deputy head of Komi Alexei Chernov in the case, invited him to be a mediator in negotiations with the management of IES CJSC and act as a guarantor of the implementation of agreements. According to the investigation, Chernov agreed. According to investigators, for the first time, a total of 187 million rubles were transferred from the account of a second affiliate of IES CJSC to Financerezerv LLC, controlled by Slobodin. Afterwards, Financerezerv LLC sent the money to a company that was controlled by Romadanov – Inel LLC. All this was “disguised” as a loan. Afterwards, according to the investigation, CJSC IES continued to manage Olkhovik, and even later – Vainzikher. Both agreed to continue paying the bribe. Transfers according to the same scheme were carried out through “intermediary” companies controlled by the defendants. All transfers, according to the investigation, were “disguised” as loan agreements, purchase and sale agreements, or donations. Also, according to investigators, more than 1.7 billion ordinary uncertificated registered shares and more than 91 thousand preferred uncertificated registered shares of the resource supplying organization were transferred as a bribe to Romadanov – this is about 38.2% of the shares of the total. As indicated in the conclusion, the total “cost” of the stolen shares and all bribes is 877.2 million rubles. — Insert K.ru
Note that according to “Gaizer case” about the theft of shares of the Zelenetskaya Poultry Farm and receiving bribes from the ex-senator from Komi Evgenia Samoilova Romadanov was sentenced to imprisonment. In December 2021, he served his sentence and was released.