Kostunov Ilya Evgenievich

Kostunov Ilya Evgenievich

Biography

Ilya Kostunov was born on November 3, 1980 in the urban-type village of Grigoriopol in the Moldavian SSR, in a family of military personnel. Since 1981 he lived in the military village of Severomorsk-3 of the Murmansk region.

In 1998, he graduated from school No. 8 in Severomorsk, then moved to St. Petersburg and entered the faculty of automated control systems of the St. Petersburg Military University of Communications. In 2002, without graduating from it, he expelled of his own free will.

In 2004, he graduated with honors from the evening department of the educational institution St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Faculty of Technical Cybernetics.

In 2004-2006 studied under the master's program at the Faculty of Economics of the European University in St. Petersburg.

In 2006 he entered the graduate school of the Russian University of Economics named after G.V. Plekhanov, Faculty of Economics.

Then, in 2006, he headed the educational direction of movement "Our."

In 2007-2008, as part of the Nashi youth movement, he organized and headed the federal project of the CCM - "Personnel for the Modernization of the Country," the purpose of which was to prepare future managers for the new Russia. The project conducted competitions, educational lectures, street actions and organized internships for participants. I went with the movement "Our" to federal actions in Moscow.

In 2008-2011, he worked as an adviser to the head of the FADM Rosmolodezh Vasily Yakemenko.

On December 4, 2011, according to the list from the Voronezh regional group of the United Russia party on the quota of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF), he was elected to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the 6th convocation.

In 2014, he graduated from the higher courses of the Academy of the General Staff "Planning of Troops."

Finalist of the Leaders of Russia competition 2018-2019.

Work in RFRIT

In 2022, he works as Deputy General Director of the Russian Fund for the Development of Information Technologies (RFRIT).

Solvers were arrested who tried to arrange the consideration of applications for grants at the RFRIT without a queue for 600 thousand rubles. Deputy Director General of the Fund Ilya Kostunov did not succumb and attracted the FSB

The Tver court sent the resolvers Yevgeny Dobrovolsky and Ivan Alekhine, who are involved in the case of commercial bribery of the Deputy General Director of the Russian Fund for the Development of Information Technologies Ilya Kostunov, under house arrest, the Kommersant newspaper reported on August 2, 2022. For 600 thousand rubles. solvers sought consideration without a queue of applications for grants issued by the fund of two companies - LLC Business Platform of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and LLC Globus Technologies.

Ilya Kostunov did not succumb to bribery and reported on the proposal of the solvers to the FSB, as a result of which they were detained

The Tver court sent Dobrovolsky and Alekhine under house arrest until September 28, 2022. The Moscow investigation of the TFR is investigating the case.

According to investigators, at the end of June 2022, the solvers developed a criminal plan, part of which was the transfer of money to a person "performing managerial functions" in the RFRIT. The money was planned to be transferred to the deputy general director of the fund for consideration without a queue of applications for budget grants. The first, judging by its website, is developing a messenger that "provides communication with specialists and businessmen" who are members of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. The second firm develops communication platforms for business.

To fulfill his plan, the case says, Mr. Alekhine on June 23 introduced his friend Dobrovolsky to Ilya Kostunov, whose official duties include organizing and controlling competitive selection for grants, as well as signing agreements if the application is approved. During the conversation, according to Kommersant, Dobrovolsky explained to the deputy head of the RFRIT that it was required to violate the "competitive selection procedure for grants," but made it clear that the service would be paid, calling the price 600 thousand rubles.

However, after listening to the interlocutors, Ilya Kostunov turned to the FSB, and further negotiations were held under the control of the Chekists.

Telephone conversations and face-to-face meetings between the parties lasted more than a month, finally, they agreed on the time and place of the transfer of money. The meeting was scheduled for July 28, 2022 at the Spaten House restaurant on 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street. All three met at lunchtime, and at about 13:00 after transferring the entire amount in five thousandth bills, Yevgeny Dobrovolsky was detained by operatives. The solvers were charged with commercial bribery committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy (part 3 of article 204 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Interrogation as a witness in court in the criminal case of ex-Deputy Minister Maxim Parshin

On October 28, 2024, the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow continued to consider the criminal case of Maxim Parshin and Alexander Monosov. This time, the third key witness of the prosecution, Ilya Kostunov, was interrogated. Read more here.

Work in the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights

As of October 2024, Ilya Kostunov works as deputy head of the organizational and analytical department in the office of the Commissioner for Human Rights.