Turchak Evgeny Ivanovich

Turchak Evgeny Ivanovich

Biography

Work at Gazprom

He worked in the structures of Gazprom. He served as Deputy Head of the Department of Information and Management Systems - Head of the Department for the Development and Implementation of Information and Management Systems in the company, Gazprom Procurement which is responsible for the material and technical support of subsidiaries and organizations. "Gazprom

He participated in the creation of Gazprom's integrated information technology infrastructure, and led the system implementation project. electronic document management Directum

Work in the Pension Fund

Since 2017 - Head of the Department for Organizing the Provision of Public Services and Digital Development of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.

On May 29, 2019, speaking at the TAdviser SummIT conference, he talked about how big data is used to improve the efficiency of the fund and interaction with citizens. Read more here.

Dismissal from the FIU

On October 30, 2019, PFR Chairman Anton Drozdov signed a decree granting Evgeny Turchak leave from October 31 to November 14, followed by dismissal on November 14, 2019 of his own free will, Turchak himself told TAdviser.

The day before, on October 29, a new deputy chairman of the PFR board was appointed, overseeing information technologies - Vadim Akkuzin, who transferred to the fund from the subordinate institution of the Accounts Chamber.

Since April 2017, IT in the Pension Fund was supervised by Deputy Chairman of the Board Alexei Ivanov. In July 2019, he was arrested on suspicion of corruption, and in August dismissed from his post.

Head of the IT and Digital Information Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources

Since September 2020 - Head of the Department of Information Technologies and Digital Information of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation.

Criminal case

PRE-TRIAL DETENTION CENTER

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The investigation believes that the organizers of the corruption scheme were the founder of Technoserv Alexei Ananyev and the beneficiaries of the Redsis company Vasily Vasin and Sergei Gordeev.

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, Dmitry Kuznetsov, who headed the IT department of the FIU, and Ruben Enfiadzhyan, who headed the infrastructure management department of the FIU AIS, were involved in the scheme. According to TAdviser, they have been in jail since October 1, 2020.

Preventive measure

On October 2, 2020 Evgeny Turchak as a defendant in a corruption case, a preventive measure was determined 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 PFR information technology department Dmitry Kuznetsov,
• 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.

The first lawyer of the ex-head of the digital development department of the FIU Turchak expects serious sentences in a corruption case

On October 13, TAdviser learned new details of the decision to initiate a criminal case against Alexei Ananyev. They, as well as their vision of the prospects for the case, were shared with the publication by Anton Ivanov, a former lawyer of one of the defendants in the case, ex-head of the department for organizing the provision of public services and digital development of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation Evgeny Turchak.

According to Antonov, he was Turchak's lawyer during the choice of a preventive measure. Then he became another lawyer, who appealed against the measure of restraint chosen by Turchak - detention.

The facts of the case set out in the ruling are supported by the testimony of the prosecution witnesses and the evidence of the prosecution - various circumstances, expertise. Without evidence of the prosecution, a criminal case, in principle, cannot be initiated, - said Anton Ivanov in a conversation with TAdviser.

He also noted that the initiated case is "quite serious."

We are talking about the strictest crime - official. An investigation team of about 10 investigators from various regions has been assembled. It should be expected that the consideration will be very serious and serious sentences will be passed, "Anton Ivanov told TAdviser.

Extension of the term of detention in 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.

Earlier, 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 Evgeny Turchak. 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.

2023: Three years in jail

On September 27, 2023, the Moscow City Court once again refused to mitigate the preventive measure for the defendants in the criminal case, one of which is the ex-head of the department for organizing public services of the PFR Evgeny Turchak. The defendants have been in custody for almost three years, and their lawyers regularly try to mitigate the preventive measure - changing it, for example, to house arrest or banning certain actions. Read more here.

2024: Sentence in a criminal case - 12 years in a maximum security colony

On August 9, 2024, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow announced the verdict to the former IT leaders of the PFR and another person involved in a criminal corruption case. According to the court, Evgeny Turchak was found guilty of committing a crime under Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code. The court sentenced him to imprisonment for a period of 12 years with serving a sentence in a maximum security correctional colony. Read more here.