Sakharov Gennady Stanislavovich

Sakharov Gennady Stanislavovich

Biography

2024: Arrest in bribery case

On March 28, 2024, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested top manager of Rosatom Gennady Sakharov on charges of bribery. This was reported by the press service of the capital's courts of general jurisdiction.

From the same message it follows that Gennady Sakharov holds the position of director for capital investments, state construction supervision and state expertise of Rosatom State Corporation. He is charged under Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the fact of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. By a court decision, the top manager was sent to a pre-trial detention center until May 26, 2024.

TASS in the press service of the court reported that the first deputy general director of Orgenergostroy Elguji Kokosadze was also detained in this case, he was charged with giving a bribe. The entrepreneur was also detained until May 26, 2024.

According to Kommersant, Sakharov received a bribe for assistance in obtaining one of the contracts for the work for Rosatom by Elguji Kokosadze. The website of Orgenergostroy JSC itself says that it is "one of the largest private companies of the Russian Federation in the nuclear industry, a permanent contractor of the state corporation Rosatom and its subsidiaries." By the end of March 2024, this company is the general contractor for a major project to build an International Research Center based on a multi-purpose fast research reactor on fast neutrons.

According to Interfax, by the end of March 2024, Gennady Sakharov is on the board and holds the post of vice president of the Russian Union of Builders (RSS) for engineering and interaction with the international expert community, according to the organization's website. It also notes that he has been the director of capital investments at Rosatom since 2010.^[1]

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