Vysokov Aleksei Petrovich

Biography

2023: Arrest and charge of major fraud

On July 25, 2023, it became known about the arrest of the heads of Perm Telta Telephone Plant OJSC in connection with a large-scale fraud case.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow granted the petition of the investigation to choose a preventive measure to the company's general director Alexei Vysokov and chief accountant Elena Grishina. In addition, the former head and co-owner of the enterprise Igor Morozov ended up in the pre-trial detention center.

The general director and chief accountant of the Perm telephone plant were arrested. They are accused of major fraud

Telta, founded in 1941, supplies special, industrial, field telephones, switching and measuring equipment. The products are produced at two factories - in Perm and Moscow. The company's customers include law enforcement agencies (the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSIN Penitentiary Service), the border troops, the navy, etc. 100% of the company's shares belong to the capital's LLC UK Center, the sole owner of which is Anna Karpova, the wife of Igor Morozov.

Claims against the management of Telta are related to the execution of state contracts for the supply of communications. According to one version, the defendants in the case could develop and implement a scheme according to which products were shipped to customers at inflated prices. According to another version, the fraudulent scheme concerns the import substitution program: since 2014, the company has raised federal funds to modernize special communications, but in fact, Chinese-made components were used in the products.

According to Kommersant, a criminal case has been opened against the heads of Perm Telta Telephone Plant OJSC on embezzlement of funds on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Nothing is known about the position of the defendants regarding the claims of the investigation. The amount of damage caused is also not disclosed.^[1]

2024: Fine for bribing an employee of the Ministry of Defense

On October 10, 2024, the Solnechnogorsk Garrison Military Court sentenced Alexei Vysokov, Director General of Perm Telt Telephone Plant OJSC, and Elena Grishina, Chief Accountant of this enterprise. They were fined 2.5 million rubles for each for bribing an employee of the Ministry of Defense.

Vysokov and Grishina were detained in the summer of 2023 in the case of large-scale fraud in the execution of state contracts with the Ministry of Defense for the supply of communications at an inflated price. Initially, it was about embezzlement of budget funds in the amount of over 500 million rubles, but in the future the investigation reduced the amount of damage to 33 million rubles. Subsequently, the defendants were also charged with giving a bribe on a large scale to the head of the first department of the Main Communications Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Sergei Slyusar.

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As part of the case on giving bribes to Slyusar, the defendants agreed with the prosecution in part. They reported that with the help of gifts in the form of an electric scooter, TV and drone, they only tried to establish normal relations with an official who rejected the documents they sent and obscenely expressed themselves to them. At the same time, there was allegedly no talk of bribes. The prosecutor demanded to appoint seven years and eight months in prison for Grishina, eight years for Vysokov. But the verdict was not so severe: the defendants received fines, avoiding prison terms. They were found guilty of giving a bribe on a large scale (paragraphs "a" and "b" of part 4 of article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). At the same time, as the Kommersant newspaper notes, the punishment imposed by the defendants caused an ambiguous reaction from the defense.

On the one hand, we are glad that the court did not appoint real terms for the defendants, and on the other hand, a fine of 2.5 million rubles is a huge amount for my client, "said Elena Volkova, Grishina's lawyer[2]

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