Biography
2024: Arrest on charges of fraud and legalization of stolen money
In October 2024, Igor Esin, former general director and shareholder of the Research and Design Institute of Urea and Organic Synthesis Products JSC (NIIK, Dzerzhinsk city), was arrested. He is accused of committing crimes under Art. 159 and 174 (fraud on an especially large scale and laundering (legalization) of the stolen) of the Criminal Code. According to Kommersant, Yesin does not admit guilt, and his lawyer claims that the crime incriminated to the ex-head of the Nizhny Novgorod enterprise was committed in the course of entrepreneurial activity.