Matsukov Leonid

Matsukov Leonid

Biography

Former head of department of the software and information security of Committee on telecommunications and to informatization of the Leningrad Region.

2017: Criminal case about a bribe

In March, 2017 Dzerzhinsky district court of St. Petersburg sentenced Leonid Matsukov for bribery by 6 years of maximum security penal colony^[1]. Case was considered for the third time. Earlier the court already pronounced to the official a conviction twice, however both times the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation cancelled it and sent case for reconsideration. All this time Matsukov was in the pre-trial detention center.

According to the assistant judge proclaiming a sentence, considering a circumstance that the convict was in custody in the pre-trial detention center since fall of 2011, he will stay in maximum security penal colony till December, 2017. He is also forbidden to hold within two years positions in state agencies.

Case on which Leonid Matsukov is found guilty concerns the government contract on development of EDMS in the Leningrad Region concluded between regional IT committee and ISS Tekhnolodzhis company. Contract amount was 19.5 million rubles, and Matsukov was according to him a responsible customer representative. According to prosecutor's office, fall of 2011 Matsukov, knowing that "Tekhnolodzhis" submitted the ISS the bid, during the personal meeting with the assistant to the CEO of this company demanded a bribe in the amount of 5 million rubles For the specified amount he guaranteed signing of delivery and acceptance certificates of the performed works on the contract by the chairman of IT committee.

In December he repeatedly demanded to give him a bribe, having lowered its amount to 4.5 million rubles. A week later after this was made, more profitable, the offer, law enforcement agencies delayed the intermediary Leonid Matsukov by transfer of the required amount to a part in the amount of 500 thousand rubles.

IT committee of the Leningrad Region and "the ISS Tekhnolodzhis" earlier already cooperated: in particular, between us was the contract for execution of works on a regional segment of infrastructure of the electronic government was signed.

Circulation around

By the time of the third consideration of the case in court Matsukov was in the pre-trial detention center more than six years - since fall of 2011. The term of its detention repeatedly lasted. For the first time the court sentenced the official to 9 years of maximum security penal colony and a penalty in the amount of 236.5 million rubles, however that did not admit the guilt and appealed against the solution in appellate instance. The sentence was cancelled by appeal determination of Judicial board on criminal cases of the Supreme Court of September 5, 2013 in connection with the violations of the right of Matsukov to protection allowed by court^[2]. Criminal case was submitted on new trial to the same court, but other structure of court.

At the end of July, 2015 second trial according to the results of which the new solution was made began – to sentence Matsukov to 8.6 years of imprisonment and a penalty in the amount of 210 million rubles. This sentence was also cancelled by the Supreme Court in connection with violation of the criminal procedure law. The case was submitted on new trial again.

Protection position

Matsukov's protection placed emphasis that during work in committee the official dealt with technical issues, had no relation to management of government contracts and could not enter into a collision concerning their implementation. The lawyer of the official considers that "those circumstances which are subject to interpretation for benefit of the defendant cannot but raise doubts that Leonid Matsukov had no powers of the official whose actions can be qualified according to Article 290 of the Criminal code of the Russian Federation as according to the government contract it had no relation to points of order. No money which the investigation calls a bribe was withdrawn from it and, respectively, the defendant could not be accused of receiving what at it is not revealed".

On a zatishcha utverzhdaniya, all charge kept on the sound recording provided to court on the laser disk, however it is established that the investigator cannot provide the technical tool using which this sound recording was made, and sound recording has signs of installation. About it as the lawyer Matsukova said, the evidence produced to court and the conclusion of the carried-out phonoscope expertize demonstrated.

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