Satyukov Georgy

Biography

2024: Accusation of receiving a record bribe of 5 billion rubles from the administrator of the crypto exchange

On April 16, 2024, it became known that Georgy Satyukov, an employee of the Bureau of Special Technical Measures (BSTM) as part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, is accused of receiving a record bribe for this department. According to investigators, we are talking about an amount of almost 5 billion rubles - this money came from the administrator of one of the cryptocurrency exchanges.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, Satyukov served as head of the 3rd branch of the 4th department (to combat crimes in the credit and financial sphere committed using information technologies) of the Department for Combating Crimes in the Field of Information and Telecommunication Technologies ("K") BSTM of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Dmitry Sokolov, Satyukov's former colleague, who played the role of an intermediary in the criminal scheme, is also a defendant in the case.

source = Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian federation

According to the investigation, these persons, under threat of criminal prosecution, imposed their patronage on Alexei Ivanov (Bilyuchenko), the system administrator of the World Exchange Services Pte crypto exchange. Ltd. (Wex is a former BTC) incorporated in Singapore. The case file says that criminals in the period from March 2019 to October 2021 received bribes in the form of cryptocurrency in the amount of at least 2119, 5265569864 bitcoin (BTC) and 10,016 ethereums (ETS), which is equivalent to at least 4.9 billion rubles (at the time of transfer of funds). Crypto assets through Sokolov were transferred to cryptocurrency wallets controlled by Satyukov for "illegal actions (inaction) and general patronage in favor of Ivanov.

The investigation charged Satyukov with receiving the largest bribe in the history of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Prior to that, the anti-record belonged to Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko, who was convicted of taking bribes totaling 1.4 billion rubles. Satyukov and his relatives were found to have six large real estate objects, including an apartment with an area of ​ ​ about 200 square meters in the Nezhinsky Ark residential complex in Moscow, as well as 13 accounts in various banks. Satyukov and Sokolov managed to hide abroad and were arrested in absentia.^[1]

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