Nikitin Evgeny Mikhailovich

Nikitin Evgeny Mikhailovich

Biography

In 2009-2011 worked at Rostelecom.

In 2011-2013 - in the company "Giprotruboprovod."

From 2013 to 2019 worked at the Pension Fund, where since 2016 he served as head of the information security department.

From April 5, 2019 to August 14, 2020, he worked at Rostelecom-Solar. After that, he left the company, deciding to continue his career at Bulat LLC.

2020: Defendant in the case of Alexei Ananyev

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. Evgeny Nikitin became one of the defendants in this case. Read more here.

PRE-TRIAL DETENTION CENTER

On October 2, 2020, Yevgeny Nikitin, 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.

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

For the same period in the same case, three ex-employees and two current employees 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 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,
• Director of the Interregional Information Center of the FIU (MIC PFR) Konstantin Yankin.

2021

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 Yevgeny Nikitin. Read more here.

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.

FIU criminal corruption defendants complain of slow investigation

Three defendants in the case of bribes in the FIU - the former head of the procurement department of the FIU Alexander Rudnev, the former head of the infrastructure management department of the automated information system of the FIU Ruben Enfiadzhyan, the former head of the information security department in the FIU Yevgeny Nikitin - and their lawyers at the consideration of the appeal in the Moscow City Court indicated that the investigative actions against them are delayed. This follows from the decision of the Moscow City Court published in August 2021 following the consideration of a collective appeal to mitigate the measure of restraint for four persons involved in the case of bribes in the FIU^[1]Read more here.

2023: 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 ex-head of the PFR information security department Yevgeny Nikitin. 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 - 13 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, the ex-head of the PFR information security department Yevgeny Nikitin 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 13 years with serving a sentence in a maximum security correctional colony. Read more here.

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