Titov Pavel Viktorovich

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2024: Sentence - 14 years in prison for a bribe in exchange for the purchase of software and hardware systems

On October 28, 2024, the Soviet District Court of Ryazan sentenced Pavel Titov, the former deputy head of the transport security department of the Federal Agency for Railway Transport (Roszheldor), to 14 years in a maximum security colony for taking a bribe on an especially large scale. This was reported by the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Ryazan region. In addition to imprisonment, Titov is obliged to pay a fine of ₽445,2 million and is deprived of the right to hold positions in state bodies for a period of 10 years.

According to Interfax, the investigation established that the crime was committed in 2013, when Titov served as deputy head of the transport security department of Roszheldor. According to the case file, he received a bribe worth more than ₽12 million from Mikhail Evseev and Liubov Zhuravleva for assistance in concluding contracts for the supply of training software and hardware systems to state universities of railways located in the Far East, Siberia, the Urals and the Irkutsk region.

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As part of the investigation, it was established that the apartment acquired by Pavel Titov with funds received as a result of the crime is subject to confiscation in favor of the state. The court decided to seize this property, which was one of the measures aimed at returning illegally obtained property.

Together with Titov, other defendants were involved in the case. Mikhail Evseev, who participated in the transfer of a bribe, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in a maximum security colony and received a fine of ₽254,4 million. Zhuravleva, recognized by the court as an accomplice in the crime, was sentenced to a suspended sentence of 7 years and 6 months with a probationary period of 4 years and 6 months and a fine of ₽254,4 million.^[1]

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