Vishnyakova Irina Vladimirovna

Vishnyakova Irina Vladimirovna

Biography

2024: Sentence - 5 years in prison for embezzlement of funds of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

On July 17, 2024, the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow sentenced Irina Vishnyakova, former general director of Security and Communications CJSC (BiS). She received five years in prison in the case of multimillion-dollar embezzlement in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, BiS is the company of Alexander Yelkin, who was also the general director of Slavyanka, which was structurally part of the Oboronservis commercial holding of the Ministry of Defense. This organization performed a significant part of the tasks related to the repair and maintenance of the housing stock of the military department.

A large-scale investigation into the theft of funds of the Ministry of Defense, the main military investigation department of the TFR began in November 2012. In 2013, an episode of theft appeared in this case during the implementation of agreements on the provision of services for the integrated maintenance of premises and territories of the federal state educational institution "Moscow Cadet Corps" Boarding School of Pupils of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, "located in Moscow on Khoroshevsky highway. This state contract was received by BiS. According to the prosecution, the volume of work performed was significantly overestimated, as a result of which several tens of millions of rubles were stolen.

Vishnyakova, who held the post of general director of BiS in 2013, was initially a witness in the case. Then she was charged in absentia with particularly large-scale fraud and money laundering, after which she was put on the federal wanted list. Vishnyakova was detained after nine years of search in November 2022 and immediately sent to a pre-trial detention center. She was found guilty of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and legalization of proceeds from crime (article 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The court sentenced her to five years in a general regime colony.^[1]

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