Gorlov Evgeny Sergeyevich

Gorlov Evgeny Sergeyevich

History

2024: Extension of arrest on charges of demanding a monthly bribe of 1 million rubles from an IT company

In early December 2024, the Basmanny Court of Moscow extended until January 20, 2025, the arrest of the former acting deputy governor of Sevastopol, Yevgeny Gorlov. He is a defendant in a criminal case on receiving a bribe from a representative of Sevastopolgaz.

Gorlov served as acting Deputy Governor of Sevastopol from January 10, 2023 to August 5, 2024. Among other things, he oversaw such areas as housing and communal services and fuel and energy complex, maintenance of territories, environmental protection, waste management, as well as the design and placement of landscaping facilities.

According to investigators, at the end of 2023, Gorlov demanded a bribe from a representative of PJSC Sevastopolgaz and Digital Technologies LLC for "helping to ensure timely payment and repayment of debts under concluded contracts with subordinate institutions, as well as for general patronage." The official estimated his services at 1 million rubles a month. In particular, according to the case file, Gorlov demanded that the victim transfer a bribe of 6 million rubles to him in six months. In early August 2024, the man turned to the FSB of Russia in the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, after which a criminal case was initiated.

According to TASS, referring to information received from the lawyer of ex-official Alexander Karabanov, Gorlov refused to participate in the appeal. His defense in the Moscow City Court said that there were no real grounds for electing the defendant a preventive measure in the form of arrest, since the investigation did not provide the court with factual evidence of the guilt of the former official, and in the case "red tape and delaying the investigation were allowed."

The Governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, by his decree dismissed Gorlov in August 2024, noting that "any manifestation of corruption at any level will be punished."^[1]

2025: Guilty plea for taking bribe from IT company

On January 27, 2025, it became known that the former acting deputy governor of Sevastopol, Yevgeny Gorlov, pleaded guilty to receiving a bribe from PJSC Sevastopolgaz and Digital Technologies LLC for general patronage. The Basmanny Court of Moscow extended the arrest of Gorlov for three months - until April 20, 2025.

According to TASS, the alleged intermediary in the transfer of a bribe to Gorlov in the amount of 6 million rubles is Maxim Larin. The latter previously worked in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and was put on the wanted list there for high treason. After the referendum in 2014, Larin moved to the service of Russian law enforcement agencies, and in 2020 he retired, continuing to work in a construction organization.

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Фото: Sevastopol Government Website

Eduard Tretyak, chairman of the board of directors of PJSC Sevastopolgaz, sent a statement of extortion to law enforcement agencies. According to the investigation, Gorlov demanded that the businessman give him 1 million rubles a month through Larin for helping to ensure timely payment and repayment of debts under concluded contracts with subordinate institutions. As a result, Gorlov and Larin were detained: the first was charged with committing a crime under Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (receiving a bribe on an especially large scale), the second - a charge of mediation in bribery.

According to TASS, searches were carried out in the case, examinations were appointed, the interrogation of witnesses and defendants, as well as confrontations, is planned. Gorlov's defense believes that the investigation unreasonably filed a petition to extend his preventive measure - the court ruling will be appealed. The defendant's lawyer claims that his client did not commit violent crimes and embezzlement from the state budget. In addition, the defense draws attention to the fact that Gorlov has three dependent children and elderly parents.^[2]

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