Lagutkin Ruslan

Lagutkin Ruslan

Biography

2013: Criminal case

In April, 2013 information that the former associate director of information and technical service of the Central basic customs Ruslan Lagutkin became the person involved in criminal case appeared.

The information and technical service in which Ruslan Lagutkin worked, is responsible for accounting, planning of operation and directly operation of ADP equipment and office equipment of the Central basic customs FCS. Criminal case to which he was connected as the suspect concerns purchase of a sound technical and video projection equipment by this division for divisions of customs authorities which was carried out in March, 2012. According to the investigators, the equipment was purchased on the tender for inflated prices.

For this purpose, as set law enforcement agencies, Lagutkin entered into a collision to the CEO of two supplier companies of electrical equipment Roman Peshkov (Fang group of companies) and his former subordinate Alexey Nesterov (Ofis Engineering LLC) to which he rendered assistance in a victory on the tender. Concerning Peshkov and Nesterov the police also opened criminal cases.

"Accomplices developed the tender documentation which is not corresponding to laws on placement of state orders which requirements made an auction unattractive for potential participants, and through Lagutkin transferred it to a tender committee of TsBT FCS of Russia, - explain in Investigative Committee. - As a result allowed three organizations under control of participants of criminal group from one of which the public contract for the amount more than 52 million rubles was signed to the tender".

At the same time the maximum market price of the equipment taking into account delivery, installation, setup and commissioning as of date of signing of the contract did not exceed 26 million rubles, the police found out. According to bodies, participants of criminal group cashed a difference between the cost of the contract and the actual purchase price and appropriated through firms - "phony companies".

2015: Court and sentence

In October, 2014 criminal case of the former associate director of information and technical service of the Central basic customs Ruslan Lagutkin was submitted to Basmanny Court of Moscow. Commission of the crimes connected with plunder of someone else's property and abuse of office is imputed to it.

Proceedings on the reference by court were significantly dragged out: according to the website of Basmanny Court, since the end of 2014 court sessions in the matter of Lagutkin were postponed 15 times from which 13 times - because of absence on meetings of witnesses.

In June, 2015 the Moscow interregional transport prosecutor's office reported that Basmanny Court pronounced a sentence on criminal case concerning 40-year-old Ruslan Lagutkin. He was found guilty of commission of two episodes of crimes of the provided Part 5 of Article 33, Part 4 of Article 159 (complicity in fraud, in especially large size) and Part 1 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of office).

"By court it is established that Lagutkin together with representatives of a number of the commercial organizations stole a part of the money allocated from the federal budget for acquisition of TsBT FCS of Russia of a sound technical and video projection equipment at the prices significantly exceeding market", says prosecutor's office.

As a result of criminal acts of Lagutkin and other persons the material damage for the amount over 38 million rubles is caused to the federal budget.

Taking into account a position of the state prosecutor – the representative of the office of the Moscow interregional transport prosecutor's office, the court imposed to Ruslan Lagutkin sentence in the form of 6 years of imprisonment with serving sentence in corrective colony of ordinary regime