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2023: Arrest in the case of embezzlement of 160 billion rubles
On December 18, 2023, it became known that the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, at the request of the Main Investigation Department (GSU) of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, arrested two IT entrepreneurs - Sergei Sorokin and Ilya Chipashvili. They are suspected of embezzling subsidies worth approximately 160 million rubles.
According to the case file, according to Kommersant the newspaper "," in 2020-2022, CJSC Scientific and Production Firm Dolomant, which at that time was headed by Chipashvili, received Ministry of Industry and Trade subsidies to cover part of the costs of developing and creating Russian computers. In total, the state allocated 159 957 379 rubles. According to the investigation, the Dolomant company did not fulfill its obligations under the concluded agreement, and the management ordered the funds received "at its own discretion."
The organizer of the loan scam of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, according to the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is Sorokin. He holds the post of chief designer of the Research Institute of Computing Complexes named after M. A. Kartsev. In addition, Sorokin owned or led a number of companies in the IT sphere - Eremex, Prosoft, Prosoft Systems, Prosoft-E, Lenpromavtomatika, Rules, Favorit-EC, etc. It is alleged that it was through Sorokin's structures that fraud was carried out with the money received: funds were carried out, costs were written off and other fraudulent actions were carried out.
According to the decision of the Tver court, Sorokin and Chipashvili, at the request of the preliminary investigation authorities, were elected preventive measures in the form of detention for two months. At the same time, the investigative, operational and control bodies as of December 2023 are engaged in checking other contracts to which the arrested persons were related.[1]