Biography
Until 2013, he worked as the Chief information officer of Norilsk Nickel Corporation, after which he left the company of his own free will. Around the same time, Gennady Bauman created his own company, which he began to actively develop.
According to investigators, in 2015 Research Institute of Communication and Control Systems (NIISSU) he was going to receive a state order for the production and supply of a complex of a mobile-stationary control system for special operations forces of the Airborne Forces. The institute estimated the cost of the upcoming works under the state contract at 6.2 billion rubles. However, according to the investigation, the head of the department of audit of state contracts Ministry of Defense of the Russian federation Dmitry Nedobor proposed to reduce the price by 21%, to 4.9 billion rubles. The developers considered this unacceptable, saying that this is below the cost of work, Business FM reported.
According to Roman Pakharenko, head of the planning and economic department of NIISSU, who applied to law enforcement agencies with a statement to initiate a case, during the negotiations, the institute's management was told that the contract could be concluded on more favorable terms for him, and its amount could amount to 5.3 billion rubles, if paid, who needs. According to the prosecution, the developers had to transfer a bribe of 48 million rubles to the National Corporate Bank under an agreement for the supply of components. However, the money was never transferred. It is reported by "Rambler."
After the detention of Nedobor in the fall of 2015, the Department of Audit of State Contracts of the Ministry of Defense approved the cost of the contract with NIISSU in the amount of 5 billion 680 million rubles, Business FM notes.
Gennady Bauman was sentenced to 9 years in prison for giving a bribe of 48 million rubles to win the tender of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Together with Bauman, Dmitry Nedobor, head of the audit department of state contracts of the military department, was arrested and convicted.
On May 16, 2019, Gennady Bauman was released home from the Novokuybyshev IK-3. The prisoner was granted an application for temporary release. The leadership of the maximum security colony approved Gennady Bauman's application for a short-term departure from the correctional institution for "exceptional personal circumstances," the Samara Review telegram channel reported.