Piskunov Vladimir

Piskunov Vladimir

Biography

In 1984 he graduated with honors from the Bauman Higher Technical School.

After graduation, he worked as a senior engineer in the design bureau of precision engineering in the city of Moscow.

Since 1991, he worked in various commercial organizations related to the computer and printing business.

In the company "Aquarius" since 1999. He served as sales manager, product manager for Aquarius technology at OCS, head of sales at Aquarius. In 2004, he was appointed First Deputy General Director of Aquarus Production Company.

In 2006, he became the company's commercial director and received broader powers, which included all issues of commercial interaction with customers and the partner network. He was later appointed Vice President for Strategic Development.

2020: Appearance in cartel conspiracy case

In the case of a cartel conspiracy for the supply of computers for the CEC, the vice-president of Aquarius Vladimir Piskunov and the co-owner of Business Computers Group Dmitry Kuvshinnikov began to appear. Two ^[1]This was reported to RBC by two sources familiar with the situation on July 21, 2020. 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.

2022

The prosecutor requested 5 years in prison for the ex-president of the National Computer Corporation in the case of the supply of computers for the CEC

On September 9, 2022, it became known about the completion of the trial in the criminal case of cartel conspiracy in the supply of IT equipment for the Central Election Commission (CEC). The accused in this case are the ex-president of the National Computer Corporation (NCC) Alexander Kalinin, vice president for strategic development of Aquarius Group Vladimir Piskunov, as well as co-owners of Business Computers Group Dmitry Kuvshinnikov and AMI-Network Mikhail Komarov. The prosecutor asks to find them guilty of restricting competition, which caused particularly large damage (part 2 of article 178 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and sentenced to 5 years in prison. Read more here.

Sentence

The Gagarinsky court of Moscow in September sentenced participants in the cartel conspiracy of suppliers of office equipment for the operation of the State Automated System Vybory system to suspended terms. The former owner of the National Computer Corporation (NCC) Alexander Kalinin received the least defendants - two years and ten months. In turn, the former vice president for strategic development of PC Aquarius Vladimir Piskunov, as well as co-owners of Business Computers Group (BCG) Dmitry Kuvshinnikov and AMI-Network Mikhail Komarov were sentenced to three years each. As a result of the conspiracy, as the court admitted, BCG in 2016 illegally won the auction by supplying dozens of Hewlett-Packard system blocks worth more than 645 million rubles to the CEC. ^[2].

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