Putilin Sergei Alekseyevich

Biography

2024: Charge of bribing the head of the digital transformation department of the FSIN

On August 24, 2024, the Investigative Committee indicted the former Director General of Ant LLC Sergei Putilin for giving a bribe on an especially large scale. According to investigators, he handed over the illegal remuneration to the head of the Digital Transformation Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation (FSIN) Alexei Timchenko.

Ant was registered in Moscow in 2013. The main area of ​ ​ activity is the wholesale of software. In addition, a large number of other areas of work were announced: among them - the production of computers and peripheral equipment; activities in the field of communication based on wired technologies; activities on computer systems management, on the creation and use of databases and information resources, on the maintenance of computer systems and on the preparation of computer systems for operation. Ant can also wholesale computers, peripherals, photographic goods and optical goods, other office equipment and equipment.

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Putilin served as general director of Ant until January 2023. According to investigators, he handed Timchenko a bribe totaling 2 million rubles in exchange for ensuring the conclusion of a state contract between the company and the Main Center for Engineering and Technical Support and Communications of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the supply of software to the department.

A criminal case against Putilin was initiated in November 2023 - at the same time he was taken into custody. The man pleaded guilty, concluded an agreement on cooperation with the investigation and, on the basis of this, repeatedly asked to be transferred to house arrest: in the spring of 2024, this request was granted. Putilin is charged under Part 5 of Art. 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (giving a bribe on an especially large scale).^[1]

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