Yankin Konstantin Gennadievich

Yankin Konstantin Gennadievich

Biography

Konstantin Yankin graduated from the Moscow Institute of State and Municipal Administration with a degree in State and Municipal Administration.

From 1991 to 1993 he served in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He was awarded the Air Force Excellence Award.

From 1993 to 2007 he worked as an engineer for assembling computers and server systems.

In 2007-2010. was the head of the information and analytical department at the Road Design, Survey and Research Institute "GiprodorNII."

Pension Fund of Russia

From 2010 to 2013, Yankin served as head of the department for monitoring the provision of public services to the executive directorate of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. He was engaged in organizing the process of integrating the information systems of the FIU with the system of interdepartmental electronic interaction (SMEV) of the executive authorities of the Russian Federation.

From 2013 to 2015, he worked as deputy director at the Information Center for Personalized Accounting. He oversaw the directions of the financial unit, project management, the creation of the Unified State Information System for Social Security (EGISSO), organized the introduction of technical support for the FIU information system of the new generation of AIS PFR-2.

Head of the MIC PFR

Since 2016, Konstantin Yankin has been working as deputy director, and since 2017 - director of the Interregional Information Center of the FIU (MIC PFR).

The MIC is responsible for ensuring the operability of the AIS PFR-2 subsystems to provide public services to the Pension Fund, as well as maintaining and using the federal database of pensioners of the Federal Register of Disabled People.

According to the database "Kontur. Focus," accumulating data on public procurement, in 2017-2019. MIC PFR concluded state contracts in the amount of about 4.507 billion rubles, of which 3.472 billion rubles fell on purchases in the category "Computers and software." Among the largest contracts for this period is the acquisition of a set of modernization of the data storage system for almost 300 million rubles, maintenance and repair of computer equipment for 250 million rubles, services for ensuring the operation of the federal segment of AIS PFR-2 for 140 million rubles.

Plans for dismissal from MIC PFR

In February 2020, a TAdviser source in the FIU said that Konstantin Yankin was leaving the post of director of the FIU MIC. Another TAdviser interlocutor from the MIC says that Yankin submitted his resignation on February 3, and as of February 5, it has not yet been signed by the new head of the fund, Maxim Topilin.

Officially, the FIU and MIC FIU did not comment on TAdviser's planned departure of Yankin. The press service of the Pension Fund only noted that at the time of the request he continues to work in his position.

According to a TAdviser source at the IIC PFR, Yankin decided to leave on his own initiative due to the fact that he was uncomfortable working with the new management of the Pension Fund, which oversees IT, whose management style differs from that of its predecessor.

In October 2019, Vadim Akkuzin was appointed to the post of deputy chairman of the PFR board, responsible for the development of the fund's information systems, who replaced Alexei Ivanov, who was detained in a corruption case and dismissed from the PFR due to loss of confidence (more here ).

And in January 2020, the head of the PFR also changed: instead of Anton Drozdov, who headed the fund since 2008 and in January transferred to the post of Deputy Minister of Finance, he was the ex-Minister of Labor Maxim Topilin. According to the interlocutor of TAdviser, close to the FIU, Konstantin Yankin is a man from Drozdov's team.

An interlocutor from the IIC PFR says that their organization is now having meetings on how to better organize work against the background of changes at the level of management. The main thing now, in his opinion, is to quickly find a new leader who would quickly understand the specifics of the work and systems for the operation of which the MIC PFR is responsible, and at the same time exclude the departure of other employees. In total, the organization employs more than 420 people as of February 2020.

Konstantin Yankin changed his mind about leaving the MIC PFR

On April 27, Konstantin Yankin told TAdviser that he remained to work at the MIC PFR.

We worked with Maxim Anatolyevich Topilin. I will continue to work in the PFR system as the director of the MIC, "he said.

According to Konstantin Yankin, the approach to attracting and retaining engineers and key specialists participating in the operation of the PFR systems was revised. Normal interaction with the management of the fund has also been established.

And speaking about his tasks for 2020, Yankin noted that the technical re-equipment of the MIC infrastructure is being carried out.

The MIC has serious tasks to implement the decrees of the President of the Russian Federation in terms of ensuring social payments in connection with the pandemic, "added the director of the MIC PFR.

The person involved in the corruption case

Accusation of participation in a corruption scheme with Alexei Ananyev

In October 2020, it became known about the case initiated by the Investigative Committee of Russia against the founder of Technoserv, Alexei Ananyev. He is accused of giving bribes to employees of the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) in exchange for patronage when concluding state contracts. Konstantin Yankin became one of the defendants in this case. Read more here.

PRE-TRIAL DETENTION CENTER

On October 2, 2020, Konstantin Yankin, as a defendant in a corruption case, was determined to be a preventive measure in the form of detention until December 1, 2020, the press service of the Basmanny Court told TAdviser.

Yankin was detained, according to TAdviser, was on October 1.

For the same period in the same case, four ex-employees and one current employee of the Pension Fund were sent to the pre-trial detention center:

• former head of the PFR information technology department Dmitry Kuznetsov,
• former head of the information security department of the FIU Evgeny Nikitin,
• former head of the infrastructure management department of the automated information system of the FIU Ruben Enfiadzhyan,
• former head of the department for organizing the provision of public services and digital development of the FIU Evgeny Turchak,
• Head of the Procurement Department of the FIU Alexander Rudnev.

Extension of the term of detention in the pre-trial detention center

The Basmanny Court of Moscow extended the terms of detention for 3 months, until April 9, 2021, to six persons involved in a criminal case on corruption in the FIU, including Konstantin Yankin. Read more here.

Konstantin Yankin's lawyer in the bribe case: the accused pleaded guilty

As TAdviser found out, the lawyer of Konstantin Yankin, accused of taking a bribe (Art. 290, Part 6 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), at a meeting in the Moscow City Court in January 2021, said that his client pleaded guilty. This is stated in the resolution of the Moscow City Court, published in the database of Moscow courts. ^[1]

During the meeting, the appeal of lawyer E.N. Martynov against the earlier decision to keep Yankin in jail for the duration of the investigation was considered. The defense asked him to change this measure of restraint to house arrest.

The published resolution, citing a lawyer, also states that Konstantin Yankin expressed his intention to cooperate with the investigation. And in October 2020, at an appeal meeting, Yankin's defense said that in October, knowing that he could be detained, he himself voluntarily appeared to the investigator. Then the admission of guilt to them has not yet been mentioned.

The lawyer also mentioned that Yankin is the only breadwinner in the family. And in the preamble of the January resolution of the Moscow City Court it is said that he works as the director of the Interregional Information Center of the FIU (MIC PFR). Apparently, Yankin continues to be listed as a director in the organization even after his arrest: data in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and on the website of the IIC PFR indicate that by the beginning of 2021 the new director did not appear there.

In the Moscow City Court, however, in January they saw no reason to release Konstantin Yankin under house arrest. The materials submitted by the investigation indicate that there are sufficient grounds to believe that, while at large, Yankin could hide from the preliminary investigation and court, or somehow obstruct the proceedings in the criminal case, the Moscow City Court considered.

So far, the court decision remains in force, according to which Konstantin Yankin will be in jail until April 9, 2021.

It seems that the positions of the accused in this criminal case are divided. So, for example, the ex-deputy head of the PFR Alexei Ivanov, who is accused in the same case under a similar article, pleaded guilty shortly after his arrest in 2019. And the lawyer of the co-founder and ex-co-owner of Technoserv Alexei Ananyev in October 2020 stated that he had not seen a single evidence of the involvement of his client in the initiated criminal case.

Alexey Ivanov's lawyer Alexander Zinurov in December 2020 told TAdviser that the investigation of this criminal case is nearing completion.

The period 2019-2020. surpassed all past times in the number of arrested celebrities of the IT industry. Some of them have been under house arrest since their arrest, and some have been in jail for long months while the investigation and trial are underway, even after repeated attempts to get a milder measure of restraint. TAdviser closely monitors the development of the most resonant criminal cases, and industry associations are developing measures to mitigate pressure. Read more in a separate article.

Extension of the pre-trial detention center

In July 2021, five more defendants, Alexander Rudnev, Dmitry Kuznetsov, Yevgeny Nikitin, Konstantin Yankin and Ruben Enfiadzhyan, Evgeny Turchak and passing with him in one criminal case, extended their detention in a pre-trial detention center until October 1. TAdviser was informed about this in the Basmanny Court of Moscow. Read more here.

Three years in jail

On September 27, 2023, the Moscow City Court once again refused to mitigate the preventive measure for the defendants in the criminal case, one of which is the former head of the FIU Interregional Information Center Konstantin Yankin. The defendants have been in custody for almost three years, and their lawyers regularly try to mitigate the preventive measure - changing it, for example, to house arrest or banning certain actions. Read more here.

2024: Sentence in a criminal case - 11 years in a maximum security colony

On August 9, 2024, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow announced the verdict to the former IT leaders of the PFR and another person involved in a criminal corruption case. According to the court, Konstantin Yankin was found guilty of committing a crime under Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (taking a bribe). He was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of 11 years with serving a sentence in a maximum security correctional colony. Read more here.

Thanks

In 2015, he was thanked by the Chairman of the Board of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.

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