Gromov Ivan Aleksandrovich

Gromov Ivan Aleksandrovich

Biography

Ivan Gromov was born on December 9, 1977 in the city of Moscow.

He received two higher educations: the first - legal (1998), the second - economic (2011).

Service in the police department

He served in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow.

Work in the Ministry of Internal Affairs

He was a police officer - he headed the operational-search bureau No. 6 of the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Work in the Federal Tax Service

He worked in the capital's department of the Federal Tax Service.

2012: Appointment as Chairman of the Committee on Informatization and Communications of St. Petersburg

In April 2012, Ivan Gromov was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Informatization and Communications of St. Petersburg.

Ivan Gromov had not previously been engaged in informatization. However, as he argued, this sphere is not completely unfamiliar to him. "Information technology is one of the main tools used in the process of suppressing economic crimes: the most innovative developments are applied there, so ICT is not a new and unknown area of ​ ​ activity for me," he told CNews.

As of April 2012, 39 people worked in the Committee on Informatization and Communications of St. Petersburg, however, "due to the increase in the committee's powers in 2011-2012," it was planned to attract specialists, said Ivan Gromov.

On November 8, 2012, speaking at the CNews FORUM 2012, Chairman of the Committee for Informatization and Communications of St. Petersburg Ivan Gromov spoke about the first results of his work.

2015

Reprimand from the governor

On February 17, 2015, at a meeting of the government of St. Petersburg at that time , Georgy Poltavchenko, who was the governor , reprimanded Ivan Gromov in connection with the malfunctions in the work of the city portal of public services that happened on the day of the opening of the entry to St. Petersburg schools.

The recording of children in schools was opened on February 1. If earlier in the city there was an opportunity to apply, including directly to schools, this time the options were limited to submitting an application electronically, or through the MPSC.

Interruptions in the work of the portal of public services in St. Petersburg began on the evening of January 31, because of which some parents began to line up at the MPSC in the evening. During February 1, the site also "lay" for a long time. As a result of this, queues were formed in the city MPSC, in some cases reaching several hundred people.

According to Vice Governor Alexander Govorunov, 523.5 thousand rubles were allocated for the development of a system for recording schoolchildren. Out of 143 million rubles, in general, spent on the implementation of all 500 functions of the portal of public services. The Informatization Committee was involved in the creation of the terms of reference and acted as a customer for these purchases.

In his justification during the government meeting, Gromov noted that before that the portal worked without failures. "It turned out that in St. Petersburg too" advanced "parents. Because the standard methods provided for by GOST did not reveal the vulnerability of the site that was discovered as a result of its "collapse," Gromov said. He also noted that sites "fall" regularly and cited Facebook as an example, adding that this does not relieve him of responsibility.

In turn, the director of the St. Petersburg Information and Analytical Center, which was developing a system for recording schoolchildren, Yevgeny Korabelnikov, was dismissed from his post after the incident, Alexander Govorunov said at the meeting.

Penalty for violation of procurement law

In May 2015, the FAS Office for St. Petersburg reported that the chairman of the city Committee for Informatization and Communications was fined for violating the law on the contract system.

The violation was revealed following an unscheduled audit of the committee, which the St. Petersburg OFAS conducted after at the beginning of the year there were problems with enrolling children in schools through the St. Petersburg portal of public services.

Problems with enrolling children in schools through the portal of public services in St. Petersburg turned into a reprimand from the governor and a fine for Ivan Gromov

The development of the function of enrolling in schools was carried out by the IT committee of the State Unitary Enterprise "St. Petersburg IAC" within the framework of a state contract with the committee for the development of the system of providing public services in electronic form. The total volume of the contract was about 142 million rubles. In this case, the purchase of these works was made as a purchase from a single supplier.

Antimonopolists found that St. Petersburg IAC was not endowed with exclusive powers to carry out work on the development of the city portal, so the IT committee did not have the right to make this purchase from a single supplier, but had to conduct open tenders. Thus, violations of the law on the contract system were recognized in the actions of the committee.

The materials of the unscheduled inspection were sent to the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg, which, in turn, saw in the actions of the IT committee signs of violation of Article 7.29 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (Non-compliance with the requirements of the legislation on the contract system in the field of procurement of goods, works, services to meet state and municipal needs when deciding on the method and conditions for determining the supplier (contractor, contractor).

As a result of the consideration of the administrative case, the chairman of the Committee on Informatization and Communications was fined 50 thousand rubles, according to the OFAS in St. Petersburg.

A separate TAdviser article is devoted to the informatization of St. Petersburg. article

2016: Appointment as the head of the Petrograd district of St. Petersburg

In September 2016, Ivan Gromov was appointed head of the Petrograd district of St. Petersburg, the city administration said. On September 27, he was presented to the staff of the district administration.

In his new position, Gromov replaced Yuri Gladunov, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.

Gromov's successor as head of the St. Petersburg Informatization and Communications Committee was Denis Chamara.

2021

Appointment as the head of the Kalinin district of St. Petersburg

On November 16, 2021, the vice-governor of St. Petersburg Maxim Meiksin introduced the new head of the district, Ivan Gromov, to the staff of the Kalininsky district administration, the heads of district services and municipal districts. But less than a month after his appointment, Gromov filed a letter of resignation. His request was granted, the press service of Smolny said on December 6.

Detention in connection with a criminal case

December 7, 2021 portal "Fontanka"^[1] and RIA Novosti^[2]. ^[3] of the^[4] Petersburg, citing their sources, that the former head of the Kalinin district, Ivan Gromov, ^[5] detained in St. Petersburg, who from 2012 to 2016 headed the city committee for informatization and communications. A criminal case was initiated under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - fraud.

Ivan Gromov "(photo - NovostiKalininsky district)"

According to Fontanka, on the morning of December 7, a search took place in the apartment of Ivan Gromov, who had resigned from the post of head of the Kalininsky district of St. Petersburg the day before. After that, Gromov was taken to the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at 145 Ligovsky Prospekt, where he was interrogated as a suspect in a criminal case.

Moreover, according to Fontanka, we are talking about a part of the article related to the use of official position, and the matter relates to the period of work of Ivan Gromov as chairman of the committee for informatization and communications of the government of St. Petersburg^[6].

The Fontanka publications about the criminal case also include a contractor - Tesonero Computers, a software development company was registered in 2008 and liquidated in the spring of 2019. At different times, state contracts for development were concluded with her, the support of a number of IT systems in St. Petersburg^[7].

The publication also wrote about searches of some former colleagues and colleagues of Ivan Gromov. Read more here.

And Izvestia and the source of the REN TV channel reported on the same day that Ivan Gromov's brother, Pavel Gromov, was also detained in the Leningrad Region. According to them, investigators are conducting searches in the houses of Ivan Gromov and his brother in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region^[8].

Arrest of Ivan Gromov, indictment

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg issued a decision on the election of a preventive measure in the form of detention until February 6, 2022 against Ivan Gromov and his brother Pavel Gromov, accused of committing crimes under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale). This was announced by the official Telegram channel of the United Press Service of the Judicial System of St. Petersburg^[9]. The charge was brought on December 7, the day the Gromovs were detained

From the petitions submitted to the court, it follows that the Gromov brothers are charged with 8 episodes of fraud totaling more than 165.5 million rubles. In addition, there is a pre-investigation check for another episode in the amount of more than 29 million rubles. And the total amount of funds checked by the investigation for the legality of origin exceeds 537 million rubles. Read more here.

2022

The family of the arrested ex-CIO of St. Petersburg Ivan Gromov found a lot of money and a helicopter. The court does not let him go from the SIZO

Ivan Gromov, who was arrested in a criminal case of fraud in December 2021, tried to appeal the decision of the Kuibyshevsky District Court to detain him during the investigation and achieve a mitigation of the preventive measure, but the attempt was unsuccessful. This follows from the message in the Telegram channel of the joint press service of the courts of the northern capital dated February 16, 2022^[10]. The complaint was considered by the St. Petersburg City Court.

The investigator asked to attach to the case file statements on the bank accounts of Ivan and Pavel Gromov, as well as their husband, according to which there was a "huge turnover of funds" in their accounts.

Pavel Gromov, a brother, as well as an accomplice of Ivan Gromov, received an official salary that he did not withdraw, and, therefore, we can conclude that he existed on money that was obtained by criminal means, the united press service of the courts of St. Petersburg said in a statement.

In addition, the investigator asked the court to attach a certificate of registration of ownership of the aircraft of the Gromov's father, according to which he owns a helicopter. Read more here.

In the case of the ex-CIO of St. Petersburg on the embezzlement of 245 million rubles, two more former officials were placed in jail

According to the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg, an organized group headed by Ivan Gromov stole by deception the budget funds of St. Petersburg totaling about 245 million rubles and caused material damage to the city by the indicated amount. About a dozen people are already involved in the case, four of them were detained by the decision of the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg. In addition to Ivan Gromov and his brother Pavel Gromov, the ex-deputy chairman of the committee for informatization and communications of St. Petersburg Andrei Sokolov and the ex-director of the St. Petersburg IAC Andrei Ovcharenko were in the pre-trial detention center. Another person involved in the case, Yevgeny Korabelnikov, was elected a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain types of activities. He was the director of the IAC SPB until February 2015, and after the actual owner and head of the Tesonero Computers company, to whose accounts budget funds were transferred. Read more here

Ivan and Pavel Gromov in May 2022, the court extended detention until August 23. A preliminary investigation is underway in the case.

Ivan Gromov has been in jail for a year, waiting for the completion of the investigation in a criminal case

In November, the former Chief information officer of St. Petersburg Ivan Gromov and his brother Pavel Gromov extended the term of detention until December 6, 2022 inclusive. TAdviser was told about this in the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg. The brothers were detained in a high-profile fraud case and charged on December 7, 2021. Thus, in anticipation of the completion of the investigation in custody, they will spend at least a year. Read more here.

In the criminal case of ex-CIO of St. Petersburg Ivan Gromov 12 accused and 200 volumes of materials

In a high-profile criminal case in which the accused are the former Chief information officer of St. Petersburg Ivan Gromov and his brother Pavel Gromov, new details have appeared. With reference to the investigation, the United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg reported on December 1 that in the case of 12 accused and more than 200 volumes of materials^[11]. Read more here.

Ivan Gromov extended detention in jail until February 2023

The St. Petersburg City Court issued a decision to extend the preventive measure in the form of detention against Ivan Gromov, the United Press Service of the courts of the northern capital reported on December 5, 2022. In July, Ivan Gromov was charged with committing 14 episodes of crimes under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale). A similar number of episodes of crimes are imputed to his brother Pavel Gromov, who is also in jail awaiting trial on the merits. Read more here.

2023

Attempt to get out of custody

Former Chairman of the Committee on Informatization and Communications of St. Petersburg Ivan Gromov, who was previously charged with committing 14 episodes of crimes, under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale), filed a complaint against the court decision in February to extend his preventive measure until May 23, 2023. This follows from the base workflow the St. Petersburg City Court. On March 13, Ivan Gromov's complaint was sent for consideration to the Second Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction. In February, until May 23, the term of detention was extended for the second defendant in the criminal case, Pavel Gromov, brother of Ivan Gromov. According to the base workflow of the St. Petersburg City Court, he is also trying to appeal this decision. Read more here.

Transfer of a criminal case to court

On October 16, 2023, a preliminary hearing in a criminal case was scheduled in the Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg, where the main defendants include the former head of the committee for informatization and communications of the northern capital, Ivan Gromov, and his brother Pavel Gromov. Information about this is contained on the website of the court^[12].

11 more people will be tried in one case with the brothers, including Denis Chamara, who in 2016-2019. headed the committee on informatization and communications of St. Petersburg after Ivan Gromov left the post of chairman. Read more here.

The prosecutor demands to seize property worth 469.8 million rubles from the ex-CIO of St. Petersburg and his brother

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg began to consider the claim of the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg against the former head of the city committee for informatization and communications Ivan Gromov and his brother Pavel Gromov. This was announced in November 2023 by the official Telegram channel of the joint press service of the courts of the northern capital^[13]. Read more here.

Income Information

2012: Growth of declared income almost 2 times to 984 thousand rubles

According to the information on the income and property of the heads of the Committee for Informatization and Communications of St. Petersburg, published on July 8, 2013, the annual earnings of the chairman of the committee , Ivan Gromov, almost doubled: in 2012, he declared an amount of 984 thousand rubles, while in 2011 - only 511 thousand rubles.

The official also uses an apartment with a total area of ​ ​ 140 square meters. m. and share in an apartment with an area of ​ ​ 136 square meters. m. Gromov's wife in 2012, according to a published document, had no income, but in use she has an apartment of a similar area and a share in an apartment with a total area of ​ ​ 80 square meters. m. Neither Ivan Gromov himself nor his wife declared vehicles.

It is noteworthy that the annual income of the Chief information officer of St. Petersburg at the end of 2012 turned out to be lower than that of most of his subordinates - deputy chairmen of the committee and heads of the departments included in the committee. Read more here.

2013: Growth of declared income to RUB 1.5 mln

According to the information on the income and property of the heads of the Committee for Informatization and Communications of St. Petersburg, published in May 2014, the annual earnings of the chairman of the committee Ivan Gromov increased by 555 thousand rubles, to 1.539 million rubles.

The wife of Ivan Gromov, who in 2012 did not make a financial contribution to the family budget, at the end of 2013 declared an income of 1.5 million rubles. Thus, the total family income of the chairman of the IT committee has grown by about 3 times.

In terms of ownership of property, the state of affairs has not changed: in the use of the chairman of the IT committee, there is an apartment with a total area of ​ ​ 140 square meters. m. and a share in an apartment with an area of ​ ​ 136 square meters. m., and his wife has an apartment of a similar area and a share in an apartment with a total area of ​ ​ 80 square meters. m.

2014: Spouse income growth by 2.5 times

From the published information on the income and property of the leadership of the Committee for Informatization and Communications of St. Petersburg, published in May 2015, it follows that in 2014 the chairman of the committee Ivan Gromov earned 1.569 million rubles. Compared to 2013, its income was practically unchanged. At the same time, the income of Gromov's wife over the same period increased more than 2.5 times - from 1.5 million rubles. up to 4 million rubles.

In 2014, the revenues of the Chief information officer of St. Petersburg practically did not increase

The annual earnings of the Chief information officer of St. Petersburg turned out to be about five times lower than that of the head of the Moscow IT Committee Artem Ermolaev, who declared 8.196 million rubles in 2014, increasing his income by 20%.

Family

Ivan Gromov's father is KGB Major General Alexander Gromov (served until 1991) - a longtime former associate of St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko. Earlier, Gromov Sr. worked as Poltavchenko's deputy when he was the presidential envoy to the Central Federal District.

See also

Chief information officer of Russian Regions

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