Ionkin Sergei

Biography

2023: Sentence - 10 years for giving a bribe

On October 10, 2023, it became known that the Tverskoy Court of Moscow convicted Sergei Ionkin, a former adviser to the general director of one of the largest Russian IT companies, the National Computer Corporation (NCC). The man was sentenced to 10 years in a maximum security colony for trying to bribe a law enforcement officer.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, a criminal case against Ionkin was initiated at the end of October 2021 by employees of the Moscow department of the Investigative Committee of Russia. The reason for the proceedings was the conflict between the co-owners of the NCC. In 2021, the main asset of this corporation was the developer and manufacturer of computer equipment of the Aquarius Group of Companies, which was included in the list of backbone organizations. Due to control over this structure, disagreements arose between one of the owners of NCC Alexander Kalinin and his son Alexei on the one hand and other co-owners - Yevgeny Lachkov, Leonid Goldenberg and Denis Frolov. The dispute between the businessmen moved to the arbitration courts, and Ionkin represented the interests of the Kalinins' opponents in these proceedings.

Tverskoy court convicted Sergei Ionkin, former adviser to the general director of NCC

According to the case file, Ionkin, on his own initiative, decided to commit a corruption crime. He turned to his friend, former lawyer of the company Technoserv"" Ilya Grigoriev, with a request to find an official in law enforcement agencies who would help him initiate criminal cases against Alexander Kalinin, his wife and son for a bribe. The reason for this, according to Ionkin's idea, was supposed to be "the destruction of the NCC's economic and financial documents, as well as causing the company property damage in the amount of more than 750 million rubles."

However, Grigoriev turned to the Moscow department of his own security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and agreed to participate in operational-search measures. On August 19, 2021, Grigoriev, under the control of operatives, told Ionkin that the bribe would have to be transferred to the head of the internal security department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the TiNAO, who would fulfill all the necessary requirements. The total amount of illegal remuneration was agreed in the amount of $100 thousand. Later, Ionkin transferred half of the named amount, wrapped in a plastic bag, to Grigoriev, after which he was detained by operatives. According to the verdict, Ionkin, in addition to serving a prison term, must pay a fine of 208.6 million rubles (30 times the amount of a bribe at the rate at the time of the crime). The convict did not admit his guilt.^[1]

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