Kuznetsov Dmitry Valentinovich

Kuznetsov Dmitry Valentinovich

Biography

Born in 1972 in the city of Zaoozerny, Krasnoyarsk Territory.

In 1994 he graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics of Krasnoyarsk State University, receiving the specialty "Applied Informatics."

From 1993 to 1994, he worked in the Krasnoyarsk Territory as a leading engineer at the Center for the Accrual and Payment of Pensions. From 1994 to 2001, he served as chief engineer of the regional department of social protection of the population.

Work in the Pension Fund

Since 2001, Dmitry Kuznetsov worked in the PFR branch in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, including the head of the information technology department.

Since January 2012, he moved to the executive directorate of the FIU, becoming the head of the application software department, which was later renamed the FIU Information Technology Department.

The Kuznetsov Department was engaged in the development of an automated information system for the AIS PFR-2 Pension Fund, the Unified State Social Security System of the EGISSO, the Federal Register of Disabled People, a website, applications and electronic public services of the fund.

Dismissal from the FIU

On August 12, 2020, TAdviser became aware of the dismissal of Dmitry Kuznetsov from the Pension Fund. Two sources familiar with Kuznetsov told the publication that he wrote a letter of resignation, and the chairman of the PFR board, Maxim Topilin, signed it.

Kuznetsov confirmed this information to TAdviser, saying that he was quitting on September 2, and was on vacation before that.

I have been working for a long time in the Pension Fund and in general in social security, so it's time to change the field of activity, "said TAdviser Kuznetsov

According to him, the search for a new head of the IT department in the Pension Fund is still underway. The FIU press service refrained from commenting.

Regarding further plans, Kuznetsov said that he is considering different options, but is likely to continue to deal with issues of digital transformation. In which area, he did not specify.

According to TAdviser interlocutors, Kuznetsov is one of the pillars of the FIU informatization. He headed the IT department of the fund under three supervising deputy chairmen of the board - Nikolai Elistratov, Alexei Ivanov and Vadim Akkuzin (has been in office since October 2019).

In January 2020, the chairman of the board changed in the FIU - Maxim Topilin became it. At the same time, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova announced the upcoming optimization of the Pension Fund's IT systems.

Criminal case

Accusation of participation in a corruption scheme with Alexei Ananyev, pre-trial detention center

On October 5, 2020, it became known about the case initiated by the Investigative Committee of Russia against the founder and ex-head of Technoserv Alexei Ananyev. He is accused of giving bribes to employees of the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) in exchange for patronage when concluding state contracts. Dmitry Kuznetsov became one of the defendants in this case. Read more here.

According to two TAdviser sources familiar with the situation, Kuznetsov was placed in a pre-trial detention center. One of the interlocutors clarifies that the detention took place on Thursday, October 1. Kuznetsov's phone was turned off as of October 6.

The most senior employee of the FIU suspected of corruption is the ex-deputy chairman of the fund, Alexei Ivanov. He has been on trial since the summer of 2019. In addition to him, according to investigators, Evgeny Turchak, who headed the FIU's digital development department, and Ruben Enfiadzhyan, who headed the FIU's AIS infrastructure management department, were involved in the scheme. According to TAdviser, they have been in jail since October 1, 2020.

Preventive measure

On October 2, 2020, Dmitry Kuznetsov, as a defendant in a corruption case, was determined to be a preventive measure in the form of detention until December 1, 2020, the press service of the Basmanny Court told TAdviser.

For the same period in the same case, three ex-employees and two current employees of the Pension Fund were sent to the pre-trial detention center:

• former head of the department for organizing the provision of public services and digital development of the FIU Evgeny Turchak,
• former head of the information security department of the FIU Evgeny Nikitin,
• former head of the infrastructure management department of the automated information system of the FIU Ruben Enfiadzhyan,
• Head of the Procurement Department of the FIU Alexander Rudnev,
• Head of the Interregional Information Center of the FIU Konstantin Yankin.

Extension of the term of detention in the pre-trial detention center

The Basmanny Court of Moscow extended the terms of detention for 3 months, until April 9, 2021, to six persons involved in a criminal case on corruption in the FIU, including Dmitry Kuznetsov. Read more here.

The period 2019-2020. surpassed all past times in the number of arrested celebrities of the IT industry. Some of them have been under house arrest since their arrest, and some have been in jail for long months while the investigation and trial are underway, even after repeated attempts to get a milder measure of restraint. TAdviser closely monitors the development of the most resonant criminal cases, and industry associations are developing measures to mitigate pressure. Read more in a separate article.

Dmitry Kuznetsov's lawyer in the bribe case: the accused pleaded guilty

As TAdviser found out in March 2021, one of the lawyers of Dmitry Kuznetsov, accused of committing a crime under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (taking a bribe on an especially large scale), said at a meeting in the Moscow City Court that his client pleaded guilty. This is stated in the decision of the Moscow City Court following the consideration of the appeal of Kuznetsov's defense on transferring him from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest during the investigation. The document was published in the database of Moscow courts ^[1]

According to the decision, at the consideration of the appeal, lawyer V.N. Samokhin, in particular, mentioned that Kuznetsov "pleaded guilty to the alleged crime, gave a confession and expressed a desire to cooperate with the investigation."

However, despite this and other arguments cited by Dmitry Kuznetsov's lawyers, the court did not release him under house arrest. In addition to V.N. Samokhin, Kuznetsov's lawyers A.N. Samodelkin and A.V. Tolstykh are also indicated in the resolution.

Dmitry Kuznetsov is not the only one in the case of bribes in the FIU who pleaded guilty. So, the ex-deputy head of the PFR Alexei Ivanov confessed to corruption shortly after his arrest in 2019.

And in January 2021, from the published appeal resolution of the Moscow City Court, it also became known that the director of the Interregional Information Center of the PFR (MIC PFR) Konstantin Yankin, who is in the same case, also pleaded guilty. His court also does not release under house arrest.

The details and context of the episodes on which the accused admit their guilt in either case are not given in the appeals decisions of the Moscow City Court, only the very fact of the admission of guilt is stated.

And the lawyer of the co-founder and ex-co-owner of Technoserv Alexei Ananyev, who also appears in the PFR case, in October 2020, on the contrary, stated that he had not seen a single evidence of the involvement of his client in the initiated criminal case.

Extension of the pre-trial detention center

In July 2021, five more defendants, Alexander Rudnev, Dmitry Kuznetsov, Yevgeny Nikitin, Konstantin Yankin and Ruben Enfiadzhyan, Evgeny Turchak and passing with him in one criminal case, extended their detention in a pre-trial detention center until October 1. TAdviser was informed about this in the Basmanny Court of Moscow. Read more here.

Sentence - 5 years in a maximum security colony

In February 2023, the trial of the former head of the PFR IT department Dmitry Kuznetsov was held, and he was sentenced. TAdviser was informed about this in the Presnensky District Court of Moscow in March.

Kuznetsov was found guilty of committing a crime under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (taking a bribe by an organized group on an especially large scale). He was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of 5 years with serving a sentence in a maximum security correctional colony.

The verdict also includes deprivation of the right to hold positions in the public service related to the exercise of the functions of a representative of the authorities, organizational, administrative and administrative powers for a period of three years, the Presnensky District Court said.

From previously published court documents it follows that Dmitry Kuznetsov "pleaded guilty to the alleged crime, gave a confession and expressed a desire to cooperate with the investigation"^[2].

At the same time, he filed an appeal against the verdict. As of March 10, 2023, the date for the consideration of the complaint has not yet been set.

By the time the verdict was passed, the former head of the IT department of the PFR had already spent more than 2 years in custody as a preventive measure - he has been in jail since October 2020. According to Art. 72 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the time of detention of a person is counted in the term of imprisonment at the rate of one day per day of serving a sentence in a correctional colony of strict or special regime. Thus, Dmitry Kuznetsov remained to spend about half of the appointed term in a maximum security correctional colony.

In the corruption episode, according to which Dmitry Kuznetsov was convicted, five more former PFR employees are held under the same article - part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: former head of the PFR information security department Yevgeny Nikitin, former head of the PFR Interregional Information Center Konstantin Yankin, ex-head of the PFR automated information system infrastructure management department Ruben Enfiadzhyan, ex-head of the PFR procurement department Alexander Rudnev and ex-head of the PFR public services department Evgeny Turchak. They are all tried together, as of February and March 2023, sentences have not yet been passed.

Of the above participants in the case, only Konstantin Yankin pleaded guilty. This follows from the appeal decision of the Moscow City Court of January 30, 2023, published in the database of courts of general jurisdiction of Moscow^[3].

Another person involved in the same case, who is being tried together with ex-employees of the FIU, is Dmitry Radchenko, a representative of the RedSis group of companies. He is charged with Part 5 of Art. 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (giving a bribe by an organized group on an especially large scale).

Recall that, according to the investigation, in 2016-2019. Nikitin, Rudnev, Turchak, Enfiadzhyan, Yankin and Kuznetsov for ensuring the conclusion by the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation of state contracts with the groups of companies "Technoserv" and "RedSis" in the amount of more than 18 billion rubles received from the owners of these organizations Alexei Ananyev and Sergey Gordeev, as well as from Dmitry Radchenko and other employees subordinate to them over 190 million rubles as a bribe.

In December 2022, the Prosecutor General's Office clarified that, while the case against the ex-employees of the PFR and Dmitry Radchenko had already been submitted to the court for consideration on the merits, the investigation into Ananyev and Gordeev hiding from the investigation is still ongoing, they were put on the wanted list^[4].

Attempt to appeal and commute sentence

As TAdviser found out, in May 2023, the Moscow City Court considered the appeals of Dmitry Kuznetsov and his lawyers against the verdict passed in February. Dmitry Kuznetsov, we recall, was convicted under Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (taking a bribe by an organized group on an especially large scale). He was sentenced to 5 years in prison in a maximum security penal colony, with the deprivation of the right to hold positions in the civil service for 3 years related to the exercise of the functions of a representative of the authorities, organizational, administrative and administrative functions.

The term of punishment counted the time of detention from October 1, 2020 at the rate of one day for one day of serving the sentence in a maximum security correctional colony. Thus, Dmitry Kuznetsov remained to spend about half of the appointed term in the colony.

From the appeal decision of the Moscow City Court on the complaint published in the database of courts of general jurisdiction of Moscow^[5]it follows that Dmitry Kuznetsov and his defenders consider the punishment imposed to be excessively severe, inconsistent with the nature and degree of public danger of the crime committed, as well as personal data.

According to the lawyers, the court of first instance did not fully take into account all mitigating circumstances. For example, it was not taken into account that Dmitry Kuznetsov "was actually involved in the organized group by the senior leadership of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, from which he was in official dependence," the published document says.

Lawyers asked the Moscow City Court to change the sentence, reducing the sentence to the ex-head of the PFR IT department to 2 years 6 months in prison.

The Moscow City Court, however, found no grounds for mitigating the punishment, since "the court of first instance, when imposing the punishment, took into account all the circumstances and information about the personality of D.V. Kuznetsova, mitigating the punishment circumstances, including those given in the appeals."

In the corruption episode, according to which Dmitry Kuznetsov was convicted, five more former PFR employees are held under the same article - part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: former head of the PFR information security department Yevgeny Nikitin, former head of the PFR Interregional Information Center Konstantin Yankin, ex-head of the PFR automated information system infrastructure management department Ruben Enfiadzhyan, ex-head of the PFR procurement department Alexander Rudnev and ex-head of the PFR public services department Evgeny Turchak. They are all tried together, as of June 2023, sentences have not yet been passed.

For details of the case, see the blocks above and here.

Awards

In 2010, as the head of the information technology department of the PFR branch in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, he received the badge "Honorary Worker of the PFR."

In December 2017, as the head of the information technology department of the FIU, he was awarded an honorary diploma for his significant contribution to the organization, formation and development of the Pension Fund system.

Participation in councils

From 2015 to 2018, he was a member of the expert council on Russian software at the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications.

See also

Criminal cases of corruption in the introduction of information technologies in the Pension Fund of Russia

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