The Industrial District Court of Barnaul sentenced the former rector of the Leningrad State University. A.S. Pushkin and ex-senator Vyacheslav Skvortsova to four years of imprisonment conditionally for embezzlement of 2.4 million rubles, press service of the prosecutor’s office of the Altai Territory. The ex-rector was found guilty of committing a crime under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code (embezzlement).
According to the investigation, in the period from 2014 to 2017, Skvortsov, together with the director of the Altai branch of the same university, received illegal remuneration for fictitious contracts for scientific work that were not actually carried out, after which the money received was transferred to controlled accounts and appropriated by attackers.
Kommersant.Ru, 10/05/2021, “The former director of the Altai branch of Leningrad State University was given a suspended sentence for embezzlement”: In Barnaul, the former head of the Altai branch of the Leningrad State University (LGU) named after Pushkin, Irina Solovieva, was sentenced. According to part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (embezzlement on an especially large scale), she was sentenced to three years probation and a fine of 300 thousand rubles, the department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Altai Territory reported. — Inset K.ru
From January to March 2021, the ex-rector was on the international wanted list, he was found in Montenegro. In July Montenegro handed him over to Russia.
Kommersant.Ru, 10/26/2021, “The former rector was left without coins”: As Kommersant-Siberia was told by sources familiar with the course of the search, back in the fall of 2020, Vyacheslav Skvortsov flew from Moscow to Istanbul. From Turkey, he moved to Montenegro. In order to “zero out” the terms of stay in it, Mr. Skvortsov had to cross the border of this country every month. In early March 2021, he was detained at the Sitnica checkpoint, which is located on the border of Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The ex-rector was placed in a Montenegrin prison, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation initiated the procedure for his extradition. According to Kommersant-Sibir’s sources, Mr. Skvortsov allegedly applied to the Montenegrin authorities for asylum, but he was refused. On July 30, accompanied by employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Russian bureau of Interpol, the prisoner was taken first to Moscow, and then to the pre-trial detention center in Barnaul.
The former rector of Leningrad State University did not agree with the accusation. He refused to testify, using Art. 51 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. In order to compensate for the alleged damage, the court seized the property of Vyacheslav Skvortsov in the amount of more than 400 thousand rubles: jewelry, coins and watches were included in the inventory. Another defendant in the case, Irina Solovieva, had her house and car arrested. — Inset K.ru
In addition to four years of probation, Skvortsov was ordered to pay a fine of 600 thousand rubles. He was also deprived of the right to hold positions related to the implementation of organizational, administrative and administrative functions in educational institutions for three years.
The director of the Altai branch of Leningrad State University was previously convicted of the same crime and sentenced to a fine.
Skvortsov served as rector of the university from at least 2013 to 2015, after which he became president of the university. The website of the Federation Council indicates that Skvortsov from December 2010 to September 2012 was a member of the Federation Council from the Leningrad Region. The senator was a member of the committee on science, education, culture and information policy, then a member of the committee on economic policy. In addition, Skvortsov was awarded the Order of Honor, the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, and also has the title of Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation.