So far, the notorious high-ranking FSB officer for the Perm Territory Grigory Tsaregorodtsev wanders between the Moscow and Perm pre-trial detention centers, his criminal case under Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) is acquiring new details (by the way, the next hearing in the Perm Garrison Military Court is scheduled for today, March 7, 2024).
According to information from the investigation, studied by the editors of Kompromat-Ural, from 2016 to 2022, Mr. Tsaregorodtsev received bribes from Perm hackers Alexandra Kovaleva And Vladislav Gileva 160 million rub. The last 100 million rubles. were received by Tsaregorodtsev on January 23, 2022, on the eve of the arrest of the hackers.
Someone will consider the amount of bribes taken by a provincial FSB major, even in a mid-level management position, mind-boggling. But if you remember that Nikolay Patrushev publicly assigned the class status of “new nobility” to FSB employees, then the lordly size of the bribe of an individual “new nobleman” from the Kama region should no longer be surprising.
Earlier, colleagues of the Kompromat-Ural editorial board learned that the 235th garrison military court stationed in Moscow (chairman) refused to accept a complaint from a witness in a criminal case against the leading officer of the FSB Directorate of Russia (*aggressor country) in the Perm Territory, Grigory Tsaregorodtsev (head of the department of the Perm Directorate of the FSB, which carries out activities in the field of information security) to seize large sums of money and gold bars. Liya Sagadeeva asked to cancel the arrest of 4.5 million rubles, 154.5 thousand dollars and 100 gold bars belonging to her. The complaint alleged, in particular, that during the search the witnesses were directly subordinate to the investigator and were actually absent during the investigative action. According to Sagadeeva, other procedural violations were also committed.
The seized money and bullion were recognized as material evidence in the Tsaregorodtsev case. The court concluded that the witness “is not deprived of the opportunity to make a corresponding request during the criminal proceedings against” the FSB officer, and the demands put forward in her complaint “can currently be the subject of verification only during the criminal proceedings, as well as when considering a case by a court of appeal or cassation.”
The high-profile case against Tsaregorodtsev is being considered by the Perm Garrison Military Court, more precisely, by its chairman personally Dmitry Malmygin. The next meeting is scheduled for today, March 7, 2024, but there is no public information about it yet.
The FSB officer was charged under Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) (receiving a bribe on an especially large scale). Tsaregorodtsev, who led the department in the field of information security, received bribes for concealing the activities of a group of hackers.
Earlier, the telegram channel VChK-OGPU reported that the head of the Perm FSB department, Grigory Tsaregorodtsev, who was arrested for a 100 million bribe, protected a large hacker group that traded information from bank cards. They paid him for his patronage, and then gave him 100 million rubles for their release.
In February 2022, it became known about the defeat of another gang of hacker carders. Six members of the organized crime group were detained: businessman Vladislav Gilevfounder of a large company selling metal structures Artem BystykhGeneral Director of the Saratovfilm Film Company Denis Pachevskymerchant Alexander Kovalevunemployed Yaroslav Solovyov and the head of the famous Perm IT office Get-Net Artyom Zaitsev. The Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested all six suspects in case No. 12201007754000092, initiated under Part 2 of Article 187 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism): illegal circulation of payment funds.
According to information from the same Cheka-OGPU, hackers sold data from European and American cards and also stole money from them. The work was carried out through two sites: trump-dmps.ru and fe-accl8.ru. Traffic from them went to the data center, the base of which belongs to Zaitsev’s Get-Net LLC. In Perm, he is a well-known programmer, and his company supplies services to the local FSB. For example, in 2016, security officers purchased communication channels from Zaitsev, and the following year they rented premises.
After the arrest of the hackers, investigators from the Ministry of Internal Affairs began to notice a strange interest in the topic on the part of the head of the FSB department for the Perm Territory. Grigory Tsaregorodtsev tried in every possible way to transfer the detainees to the Perm pre-trial detention center under the pretext of holding certain events. It turned out that Tsaregorodtsev acted as a “roof” for a group of hackers in exchange for monthly payments.
Moreover, a classified witness in the case – a girl – said that Vladislav Gilev, who previously headed the trade and construction company Uralenergostroy (one of the partners of Transtechcom Bystrykh), gave Tsaregorodtsev 100 million rubles in cash. The transfer was carried out by their mutual friend, Gilev’s business partner, Alexander Kovalev. Also, according to the witness, through her Tsaregorodtsev tried to calm the hackers, claiming that he was making every effort to get them out of prison. However, after a year behind bars and multiple court rejections of defense motions and appeals regarding mitigation of the preventive measure, the detainees decided to “dump” their curator and revealed the fact of transferring money to Tsaregorodtsev, intended to bribe investigators.
Publicly available sources report that FSB officer Tsaregorodtsev protected these same hackers for seven years, primarily the group of Kovalev and Gilev. Moreover, they didn’t just give him money every month, the cybercriminals helped him, under someone else’s passport data, relax with his whole family in the best hotels in Russia (*aggressor country) (the security officer is not allowed to travel abroad).
Bribe-intensive “Resource”
In 2015, having started receiving money for patronage in order to justify why expensive real estate and cars suddenly began to appear in the family, Tsaregorodtsev opened up about his wife’s father, his father-in-law Tsitko Sergei Stanislavovich Resource LLC (TIN 5908007183), through which I cashed out money, bought real estate, cars, registering it in the name of my father-in-law and mother-in-law.
So, since 2015, they have Lexus cars for all the women in the family (Tsaregorodtsev’s mother, sister, wife, mother-in-law). My father-in-law has two Mercedes, Tsaregorodtsev himself has a Jaguar, then a Range Rover.
Also, two private houses were bought for the father-in-law in the elite village of Ust-Tary on the Kama River.
During the search, a collection of expensive pens and watches, as well as valuables worth 25 million rubles, was found in the possession of the “honest” intelligence officer Tsaregorodtsev.
The relationship between a high-ranking employee of the FSB of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) and bribe-paying hackers grew into the category of friendship; they communicated with their families and spent weekends together. When investigators from Moscow caught up with them, they gave Tsaregorodtsev 100 million rubles so that he could organize their transfer to Perm and release. And for a long time – a whole year! – they were waiting for help, they don’t abandon friends. But they didn’t receive it from Tsaregorodtsev. After this, they decided to write statements about giving bribes, exposed the corrupt official, for which the defendants were reduced from being in a pre-trial detention center to house arrest.
