Gubaev Nail Ildarovich

Biography

2024

Conclusion of a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for sending to the SVO

On December 18, 2024, the Moscow City Court suspended the criminal prosecution of the former investment director of Rusnano Nail Gubaev, who received 8 years in prison for fraud. He signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense and will go to the zone of special military operation.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, Gubaev and his defense appealed the verdict: the case was considered in the appellate instance since October 2024. At the same time, as noted, the convict's lawyers regularly did not attend the meetings for various reasons, while Gubaev himself participated in the meetings via video conferencing.

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The defense of the former investment director of Rusnano insists on Gubaev's innocence. In addition, lawyer Georgy Antonov, representing the interests of the convict, said that his client had signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense to participate in the SVO and therefore the criminal prosecution against the man should be suspended. The same petition was filed by a representative of the military department. At the same time, the representative of the injured party - NeoTek LLC - objected to the suspension of the criminal prosecution of Gubaev, since this could "entail a violation of the rights of the victim."

As a result, having considered the arguments of the parties, the court overturned the earlier verdict and sent the case for a new trial. But this process will not take place, since at the same time the judges granted the petitions of lawyers and a representative of the military department to suspend the proceedings in the Gubaev case in connection with his participation in the SVO. In accordance with the decree, the former top manager was released from custody. It is noted that if Gubaev is marked with a state award while in the zone of a special operation, the criminal prosecution against him will completely stop.^[1]

Sentence - 8 years in prison for fraud

The Gagarinsky court of Moscow sentenced the former investment director of Rusnano Nail Gubaev to eight years in a general regime colony for fraud on an especially large scale. The court also ordered him to pay a fine of 900 thousand rubles and compensate for damage in the amount of more than 179 million rubles in favor of the injured party - ElVIS-NeoTech JSC. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow courts on June 5, 2024.

The investigation established that Nail Gubaev, being the investment director of Rusnano and overseeing the activities of ElVIS-NeoTech JSC, received cash recovered by court order in the amount of almost 180 million rubles and appropriated them. This crime was qualified under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale).

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Rusnano

According to the press service of the Moscow courts, ElVIS-NeoTech JSC won the lawsuit against the Spanish company, but instead of the legal distribution of funds, Gubaev took advantage of his official position and appropriated the money. The indictment against Gubaev was approved in December 2023.

After Anatoly Chubais left Rusnano in 2020, Gubaev became the general director of NeoTek LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of ElVIS-NeoTech. The new head of Rusnano, Sergei Kulikov, in 2022 appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to conduct an audit of the company's activities during the period when it was headed by Chubais. According to the Kremlin, serious financial irregularities were found in the reports of Rusnano.

In 2022, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on fraud against Gubaev and other unidentified persons. Nail Gubaev was detained and placed in custody on September 1, 2022. The trial ended with a conviction, according to which Gubaev must spend eight years in a general regime correctional colony.^[2]

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