Spassky Yury Viktorovich

Biography

From 2016 to 2021 Yuri Viktorovich Spassky worked as General Director of FSUE ProtectionInfoTrans.

2024: Charge of embezzlement of 50 million rubles

On January 9, 2024, it became known that the department for the investigation of crimes against state power and in the field of economics of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Moscow opened a criminal case against the former heads of FSUE ProtectionInfoTrans, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation. Former head of the enterprise Yuri Spassky, his deputy Viktor Parakhin and deputy head of the information technology department Roman Lavrentiev are suspected of embezzling 50 million rubles.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, the investigation was initiated under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale) and Part 1 of Art. 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of office). The named persons are charged with crimes when fulfilling a state order during the COVID-19 pandemic. FSUE ProtectionInfoTrans is the developer of the Unified State Information System for Ensuring Transport Security (EGIS OTB). It includes automated centralized databases of personal data on passengers and personnel of vehicles.

A criminal case has been initiated against the former heads of FSUE ProtectionInfoTrans

According to the case file, in June 2020 "for the purpose of illegal personal enrichment" Spassky, Parakhin and Lavrentiev, under the guise of ensuring the uninterrupted operation of the CGIS OTB and providing information to higher organizations in the fight against the spread of coronavirus infection, prepared and "sent to the leadership of the Ministry of Transport a financial and economic justification for the need for additional funding for development work and services to ensure the functioning of the CGIS OTB in 2020 in the amount of 180.5 million rubles."

According to investigators, the indicated amount was significantly overestimated. During the examination carried out in the Ministry of Ministry of Digital Development, the financial and economic justification for the allocation of money was considered inappropriate. Later, Spassky, on behalf of FSUE ProtectionInfoTrans, concluded a state contract for 100 million rubles with the Ministry of Transport. But the work was not actually completed. Thus, the investigation believes, the accused stole "at least 50 million rubles." According to the decision of the Zamoskvoretsky court, all three were sent to a pre-trial detention center.^[1]

2025: Sentence - 7.5 years in prison for fraud

In mid-November 2025, the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow issued a verdict against the former leaders of the technological company "ProtectionInfoTrans," subordinate to the Ministry of Transport. Former head of the enterprise Yuri Spassky, his deputy Viktor Parakhin and deputy head of the information technology department Roman Lavrentiev received prison sentences for fraud.

The case file refers to a contract worth about 100 million rubles for the revision of the Unified State System for Ensuring Transport Security (EGIS OTB). The corresponding agreement was signed between the Ministry of Transport and FSUE ProtectionInfoTrans. As part of the contract, the company attracted Inforion LLC as an executor, with which it entered into an agreement for more than 59 million rubles.

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The investigation believes that by the time the document was signed, some of the planned work had actually already been completed. Thus, the accused, allegedly, misled the officials of the Ministry of Transport regarding the need to conclude a contract. In addition, it was found that the EGIS OTB modules created by Inforion do not work. Nevertheless, according to the materials of the case, Spassky, Parakhin and Lavrentiev issued documentation on the passage of preliminary tests and ensured the signing of acceptance certificates for the work performed. As a result, almost 60 million rubles were stolen.

All defendants were found guilty of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code). Spassky and Parakhin (who is the brother of the mayor of Orel, Yuri Parakhin) received seven and a half years in prison in a general regime colony with a fine of 800 thousand rubles each. Lavrentiev was sentenced to six and a half years in a general regime colony with a fine of 500 thousand rubles.^[2]

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