Sokolov Andrei Aleksandrovich

Sokolov Andrei Aleksandrovich

Biography

He served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

He worked at Rosneft.

From 2012 to 2020 - Deputy Chairman and Head of the Analytical Department of the Committee for Informatization and Communications of St. Petersburg.

In 2020, after changing the leadership of the committee, he first left for Gazprom Energoholding, then for Petersburgteploenergo, where until 2022 he served as deputy general director for corporate protection^[1].

2022: In the case of the ex-CIO of St. Petersburg on the embezzlement of 245 million rubles, two more former officials were placed in jail

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg, at the request of the investigation, placed in custody the ex-deputy chairman of the committee for informatization and communications of St. Petersburg Andrei Sokolov. He is accused of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) within the framework of an organized group headed by the former head of the city committee for informatization and communications Ivan Gromov. This was reported by the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg^[2]. Andrei Sokolov was detained on July 13, 2022.

At the request of the investigation, on July 13, another person involved in the case was detained - the ex-director of the State Unitary Enterprise "St. Petersburg Information and Analytical Center" (SPB IAC) Andrei Ovcharenko (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). He held this position since June 2018^[3]

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