Lavlentsev Vladimir Aleksandrovich

Lavlentsev Vladimir Aleksandrovich

Biography

2013-2014

From May 2013 to October 2014 - Vice Governor of St. Petersburg for housing and communal services. He oversaw in the regional government the solution of issues of urban economy, housing policy, housing and communal services, improvement and power.

2015-2020

From November 2015 to November 2018, he was the chief federal inspector for the city of Moscow of the office of the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District.

As Kommersant writes in the issue of July 19, 2023, in 2020, Vladimir Lavlentsev took the position of general director at Stroytransgaz Gennady Timchenko, a large contractor for the construction of infrastructure facilities and a general contractor for the construction of the SKA-Arena hockey stadium on the site of the collapsed SKK Petersburg. In August of the same year, Vladimir Lavlentsev became the owner of 19.99% of OSH LLC associated with Stroytransgaz. 80.01% of the company's shares belong to Volga Group LLC Gennady Timchenko.

2023: Transfer to jail in fraud case

At the end of November 2023, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow tightened the measure of restraint for Vladimir Lavlentsev, accused of fraud, from house arrest to detention. The former vice-governor of St. Petersburg was sent to a pre-trial detention center until December 17, 2023.

Initially, Vladimir Lavlentsev was accused of one episode of fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code). According to TASS in the press service of the Meshchansky court, now the investigation has added another episode of fraud and embezzlement on an especially large scale to the accusation of the ex-vice-governor (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code).

On July 19, 2023, the court sent Lavlentsev under house arrest in a case initiated by the police two days earlier. The investigation believes that the ex-official was involved in the theft of 3 billion rubles. Such damage was caused during the implementation of contracts for the execution of construction work.^[1]

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