Chipashvili Ilya Shotovich

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2023: Arrest in the case of embezzlement of 160 million rubles

On December 18, 2023, it became known that the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, at the request of the Main Investigation Department (GSU) of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, arrested two IT entrepreneurs - Sergei Sorokin and Ilya Chipashvili. They are suspected of embezzling subsidies worth approximately 160 million rubles.

According to the case file, according to Kommersant the newspaper "," in 2020-2022, CJSC Scientific and Production Firm Dolomant, which at that time was headed by Chipashvili, received Ministry of Industry and Trade subsidies to cover part of the costs of developing and creating Russian computers. In total, the state allocated 159 957 379 rubles. According to the investigation, the Dolomant company did not fulfill its obligations under the concluded agreement, and the management ordered the funds received "at its own discretion."

Director of ZAO "Scientific and Production Firm Dolomant" arrested in the case of embezzlement

The organizer of the loan scam of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, according to the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is Sorokin. He holds the post of chief designer of the Research Institute of Computing Complexes named after M. A. Kartsev. In addition, Sorokin owned or led a number of companies in the IT sphere - Eremex, Prosoft, Prosoft Systems, Prosoft-E, Lenpromavtomatika, Rules, Favorit-EC, etc. It is alleged that it was through Sorokin's structures that fraud was carried out with the money received: funds were carried out, costs were written off and other fraudulent actions were carried out.

According to the decision of the Tver court, Sorokin and Chipashvili, at the request of the preliminary investigation authorities, were elected preventive measures in the form of detention for two months. At the same time, the investigative, operational and control bodies as of December 2023 are engaged in checking other contracts to which the arrested persons were related.^[1]

2025: The court refused to consider the case of embezzlement of 160 million rubles of subsidies from the Ministry of Industry and Trade for the development of computer platforms

At the end of August 2025, it became known that the court refused to consider the criminal case of IT entrepreneurs Sergei Sorokin, Ilya Chipashvili and Igor Tarasov. According to investigators, the defendants stole about 160 million rubles received by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in the form of subsidies for the development of computing platforms.

According to the newspaper, Kommersant the case was initiated by the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS for 2023 To Moscow under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale. The materials of the case against the former head of CJSC "Scientific and Production Firm" "Dolomant 51-year-old Chipashvili, the founder of a number of IT companies and the ex-general designer of JSC" "NIIVK named after Kartseva 67-year-old Sorokin and their business partner 67-year-old Tarasov entered the appellate instance of the Moscow City Court on August 20, 2025.

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According to investigators, in 2020-2022, Dolomant received a subsidy from the Ministry of Industry and Trade to cover part of the costs of developing and creating Russian computers. In particular, within two years, the state provided this company with more than 159 million rubles. As stated in the case, the leaders of Dolomant did not fulfill their obligations, the money was not returned to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, but "disposed of them at their own discretion." The investigation considers Sorokin to be the organizer of the fraud, through whose structures part of the documentation and the funds themselves were allegedly carried out.

However, the court ruled that the materials presented by the investigation did not allow an objective verdict. According to Kommersant, the application for a subsidy has passed all approvals, and the stages of execution of agreements with the Ministry of Industry and Trade were approved by the department every six months. The company has developed several dozen computer products in which "significant own funds" have been invested^[2]

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