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 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]

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