Kozin Oleg Mikhaylovich

Kozin Oleg Mikhaylovich

Biography

2020: Detention on suspicion of forming an organized criminal group

On January 14, 2020, RBC announced that the ex-leadership of the organization involved in the construction of radiological centers is suspected of fraud. One of the defendants is associated with the company involved in the criminal case on the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome medical center.

Oleg Kozin, the former acting director of the Federal Center for the Design and Development of Nuclear Medicine Facilities (FTSPiROYAM), was detained on suspicion of creating an organized criminal group. Together with him, his deputy Dmitry Udovenko and other employees are involved in the case, a source in the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow said.

According to the source, Kozin and his deputy created a criminal group, the purpose of which was to steal budget funds. In addition to them, the director of the Central Design Institute of Nuclear Medicine, the St. Petersburg branch of FTSPiROYAM, Pavel Demidov, is suspected of a crime. All members of the alleged group are suspected under part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud committed by a criminal group or on an especially large scale).

Requests were sent to the Federal Center for the Design and Development of Nuclear Medicine Facilities of the FMBA of Russia, the press service of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, whose structure includes the center, the Central Design Institute of Nuclear Medicine, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the TFR.

According to the SPARK system, Kozin was the acting director of the center from 2012 to 2017. The criminal group, investigators believe, appeared in the organization no later than 2014. In addition to the Federal Center for the Design and Development of Nuclear Medicine Facilities, Kozin held senior positions in other companies (for example, Tagilogneupor TD), which were liquidated by January 14, 2020. Information about the director and his deputies at the beginning of January 2020 of the material was not available on the center's website, but the list of FTSPiROYAM leaders was preserved^[1] cache^[2].

2021: Federal Wanted List in Criminal Case of Particularly Large-Scale Fraud

As it became known at the beginning of February, 2021, the Investigative Committee of Russia put on the federal wanted list Oleg Kozin, the former acting as the director of the Federal center for design and development of objects of nuclear medicine (FTSPIROYAM, it is created at FMBA), within criminal case about large scale fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

This was reported by TASS and RBC, citing their sources in law enforcement agencies. A spokeswoman for the Khoroshevsky District Court, Maria Makarchuk, confirmed to RBC that Kozin had been chosen a preventive measure in the form of detention in absentia and that he was on the federal wanted list.

Ex-head of the FMBA Center for Nuclear Medicine Oleg Kozin put on the wanted list on suspicion of embezzlement of state funds

According to RBC, Kozin was the acting director of the Center for Nuclear Medicine from 2012 to 2017. According to investigators, no later than 2014, a criminal group appeared in the organization.

In January 2020, Oleg Kozin was detained on suspicion of creating an organized criminal group. Together with Kozin, his deputy Dmitry Udovenko was involved in the case, and Pavel Demidov, director of the St. Petersburg branch of the center, was suspected. They were all charged with fraud committed by a criminal group or on an especially large scale.

Earlier, the Dozhd TV channel, citing its sources, reported that the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code against unidentified persons from among the FMBA employees in connection with the theft of 109 million during the construction of a medical unit at the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region. According to Dozhd, FMBA employees entered into fictitious contracts between the Federal Center for the Design and Development of Nuclear Medicine Facilities and third-party organizations for work, in particular with MosPromStroy LLC, to whose accounts funds were transferred.^[3][4]

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Awards

In 2014, the head of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, Vladimir Uiba, presented Kozin with a departmental award - the badge "Bronze Cross of the FMBA of Russia."