Dmitry Vasilyev was excommunicated from the customs office
Basmanny court arrested the head of the Central Information and Technical Customs Administration of the Federal Customs Service (FCS) Dmitry Vasiliev until March 26, RBC was told in court.
The head of the FCS department is accused of taking a bribe on an especially large scale (part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code, up to 15 years in prison). The court refused to satisfy the petition of the defense, which asked to select a measure of restraint for Vasiliev in the form of house arrest or a ban on certain actions. The SC petitioned for the arrest.
Vasiliev was detained the day before. In the morning, the building of the Federal Customs Service was searched in connection with his case. A source close to the UK told RBC that the investigation was interested in documents on previously concluded contracts for IT services, including the development and licensing of new software products. The investigation believes that companies related to relatives of current FCS employees and companies registered to former employees participated in government contracts.
When performing state contracts, the contractors were people close to Vasiliev and other high-ranking customs officials, for example, relatives or former employees of the service. They received government orders and gave bribes to their accomplices in the form of kickbacks. Vasiliev himself should have lost his post a year ago. Then, during the check, it turned out that his relatives worked in contractor organizations with which the detainee concluded contracts. However, then everything ended for him with a reprimand thanks to the patronage of the deputy head of the FCS of Russia Denis Tereshchenko.
Employees of the Federal Security Service (FSB) suggest that the scheme for the illegal distribution of state orders was created back in 2017, when Tereshchenko served as head of the TsITTU FCS.
In this regard, the investigators do not exclude that Dmitry Vasilyev was only a kind of cashier and the money did not settle in his pocket at all. FSB officers continued to look for confirmation of this today both in the main office of the FCS on Novozavodskaya Street and in a number of other customs departments. There, the operatives were interested in all government contracts that Dmitry Vasiliev could be related to, starting from May 21, 2021. It was on this day that the major was appointed head of the TsITTU.
Vasiliev, a native of Novosibirsk, came to work in the customs authorities in 2006, while still a student at the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics. In the central office, for quite a long time, he held purely technical positions: a software engineer, an information security specialist, and from 2017 to 2019 he worked as the head of the 24-hour technical support service department of TsITTU. After that, for two years he was the first deputy head of this department.
A year ago, they wanted to fire Vasiliev because of the violations committed, but one of the deputy heads of the service stood up for him, who called the incident “a technical mistake of a young leader,” the source said. According to the data on FCS websiteVasiliev has been the head of the department since May 2021.
Another office that CITTU cooperated with is the now liquidated ASBK. Under government contracts, CITTU and other customs authorities poured several billion rubles into it, the company did not fulfill the contracts. And the icing on the cake is Inline Technologies. Previously, the company was registered as an offshore Jess Systems Limited. At the same time, its current CEO and founder Sergey Khrupov – a native of the structures of Rosatom. He entered the capital of the company immediately after the offshore company left it.
Since 2016, the FCS has been heading Vladimir Bulavin. Under his leadership, customs officials, including those close to him, are often detained. A series of criminal cases within the FCS may also affect Bulavin himself.