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Bezdelov Dmitry Alexandrovich(born September 11, 1970, Belinsky, Penza region, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian statesman, former leader (2008-2013). A person involved in a criminal case was accused of theft of 1.175 billion rubles and hid from investigation in Italy in 2014-2016. In 2016, he was extradited to the Russian Federation and in December 2017 was sentenced to 9 years in prison.

In 1995 he graduated from the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics with a degree in social and economic planning. In 1998 he received the academic degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences. He co-authored several textbooks on personnel management. In 2002-2003, he worked as director of the department of Gazkomplektimpex LLC. In 2003-2005, he served as Advisor to the General Director of OJSC Air Defense Concern Almaz-Antey.

In 2005-2008 he worked as deputy director of the Federal Service for Defense Procurement. In August 2008, he headed the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border of the Russian Federation (Rosgranitsa). On October 21, 2013, by order of the Government of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Bezdelov was relieved of his post.

In April 2014, the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that Bezdelov was suspected of embezzling 1.175 billion rubles. The former official was accused of committing crimes under Part 3 of Art. 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Creation of a criminal community for the purpose of jointly committing several serious crimes and management of such a community, committed by a person using his official position”) and Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Fraud within an organized group on an especially large scale using one’s official position”).

According to investigators, from September 2009 to May 2013, Dmitry Bezdelov, together with other defendants, stole 490 million rubles during the construction and reconstruction of road and railway checkpoints in several regions of the country. In 2009, the ex-head of Rosgranitsa, together with the head of the Federal State Institution “Directorate for the Construction and Operation of Rosgranitsa Facilities” Oleg Senkevich and the head of the department for the development of state border facilities and the administration of checkpoints of Rosgranitsa Danila Vavilov, created a criminal community. Later, Bezdelov’s deputy, Boris Khaitovich, joined the group, as well as a number of senior employees of Rosgranstroi and general directors of controlled commercial organizations. The money was stolen during the construction of automobile and railway checkpoints “Adler” in the Krasnodar Territory, “Pogranichny” in the Primorsky Territory, “Kyakhta” in Buryatia, “Nizhneleninskoye” in the Jewish Autonomous Region, “Vyborg” and “Zabaikalsk”. To achieve this, the volumes of work performed and prices for building materials were inflated.

Dmitry Bezdelov left Russia in 2014 and hid in Italy for more than two years. In April 2016, after being detained in Rome, he was extradited to Russia. On December 29, 2017, the court sentenced Dmitry Bezdelov to 9 years in prison. In September 2018, the Moscow City Court reduced Bezdelov’s sentence by two years.

Married, has three children.

News, 19:37 02/15/2017

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Former head of Rosgranitsa Bezdelov denies guilt in the theft of 490 million rubles of budget funds

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MOSCOW, February 15 - RAPSI, Oleg Sivozhelezov.

Today, at a hearing in the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow, an indictment was heard in the framework of a joint criminal case of theft in Rosgranitsa.

“In the wording in which the document was read by the prosecutor, it caused the disagreement of all the defendants,” said Boris Khaitovich’s lawyer Alexey Semenov.

Earlier, in July 2016, the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation approved an indictment in the case of fraudulent theft of budget funds in the amount of about 490 million rubles allocated for the improvement of the state border in the Adler region. The defendants in this criminal case are Boris Khaitovich, Alexander Kazartsev, Sergei Kozlenkov, Evgeniy Chaika, Nikolai Anfinogenov, Zurab Katamadze and Sergei Sazonov. The criminal case against Oleg Senkevich, who was put on the wanted list, was separated into separate proceedings and suspended.

“Depending on the role of each, they are accused of participation in a criminal community, fraud, legalization of funds or other property acquired by a person as a result of committing a crime,” the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office previously reported.

The indictment in the criminal case against the former head of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Bezdelov, was approved by the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in November last year. Bezdelov is accused of committing crimes under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud) and Part 3 of Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of a criminal community). According to the preliminary investigation, in 2009, Bezdelov, together with the head of the Federal State Institution “Directorate for the Construction and Operation of Rosgranitsa Facilities” Oleg Senkevich and the head of the Directorate for the Development of State Border Facilities and the Administration of Checkpoints of the Rosgranitsa Danila Vavilov, created a criminal community. Bezdelov’s deputy, Khaitovich, as well as a number of senior employees of Rosgranstroi and general directors of controlled commercial organizations were also involved in its activities. Law enforcement agencies believe that between September 2009 and May 2013, alleged members of a criminal community committed the theft of budget funds in the amount of 490 million rubles, allocated by the state for the design, reconstruction, construction, equipment and other arrangement of checkpoints across the state border, and subsequent legalization of the specified amount.

The ex-head of Rosgranitsa denies his guilt, his lawyer Boris Kozhemyakin previously explained that work on the arrangement of the border crossing in the Adler area was completed, and as a result of proceedings in arbitration courts initiated by Bezdelov, about 823 million rubles were returned to the treasury from unscrupulous contractors at the initial price of the contract is about 1 billion 100 million rubles.
On January 31, the criminal cases against Bezdelov and others accused of embezzling funds during the border development were combined by the court into one proceeding without returning the materials to the prosecutor's office.

In addition, in the spring of 2016, the Tagansky Court of Moscow handed down sentences against two other defendants in the case - the former head of the capital construction and operation department of Rosgranitsa, Daniil Vavilov, as well as the general director and co-owner of RSU No. 5 LLC, Georgiy Belousov. Both convicts admitted guilt and entered into a pre-trial agreement with the investigation; Vavilov received 4 years in prison for fraud on an especially large scale, and Belousov was sentenced to 3 years.

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The former head of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Bezdelov, did not admit his guilt in organizing a criminal community for the purpose of fraudulently stealing budget funds in the amount of about 490 million rubles allocated for the development of the state border of the Russian Federation, the lawyer of the accused, Boris Kozhemyakin, told RAPSI.

The border protection agency is in turmoil. No, the point is not that a huge shipment of contraband was discovered somewhere or that the border posts are being stormed by the Right Sector. The department is busy searching. Firstly, they are looking for a candidate for the position of the new head of Rosgranitsa. Secondly, they are looking for the head of the previous one who disappeared in an unknown direction. As practice shows, it is easier for a border guard who steals to flee abroad than for anyone else. Moreover, if a loving father, who has fled from Russian justice, is also waiting for him abroad.

The first defendants in this case were the general director of RSU N5, Georgy Belousov, and the head of the capital construction and operation department of Rosgranitsa, Danila Vavilov. The latter was detained by FSB officers right at his workplace (see Kommersant, October 23, 2013). In December, Vasily Yatskov, a member of the board of directors of Agrosoyuz Bank, was detained. His charges were subsequently reclassified to Art. 174 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (money laundering), changing the preventive measure at the request of the prosecutor's office from arrest to a written undertaking not to leave. In the bank itself, financial documentation was seized regarding the transfer of money to RSU N5 LLC. Agrosoyuz reported that money from Rosgranitsa was transferred to the accounts of RSU N5. Then, according to the agreements, they were transferred to the accounts of the same company and its partners in other banks.

After the scandalous story, Alexander Bezdelov himself was recommended to leave the co-owners of the bank, which he did at the beginning of 2014. “Alexander Bezdelov is not a participant in the bank and has no relation to any of its management bodies,” stated the press service of the Agrosoyuz bank.

At the beginning of this year, the investigation had questions for Dmitry Bezdelov. He was repeatedly sent summonses for questioning, but he ignored them all. The other day, when the ex-head of Rosgranitsa did not appear for the next investigative actions, it was decided to put him on the federal wanted list.

While domestic Pinkertons are busy searching for the “public-private” Bezdelov family, the government has decided on a candidate for the new head of the Federal Agency for State Border Development. As it became known, the department can be headed by Sergey Komlichenko, currently serving as deputy head Federal Customs Service (FCS). His candidacy has been agreed upon with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who will soon recommend his appointment to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

As a high-ranking source in the government apparatus said, yesterday afternoon Mr. Komlichenko arrived at the White House, where he met with Dmitry Rogozin (he oversees the activities of Rosgranitsa). Despite the fact that the agenda of the meeting was not formally disclosed, the deputy head of the Federal Customs Service, according to Kommersant, was aware of a possible proposal to become the head of Rosgranitsa. According to a government source, Dmitry Rogozin considered Mr. Komlichenko’s candidacy suitable for the leadership of the department. In the near future, the Deputy Prime Minister will send a corresponding proposal on the appointment of Sergei Komlichenko to Dmitry Medvedev.

The search for a new head took place with the assistance of the Federal Security Service (which includes the Border Service, which is the main customer of Rosgranitsa services). Mr. Komlichenko was not the only contender for this position. In addition to him, three more candidates were considered - the acting head of the department, Yuri Maltsev, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee, Sergei Zhigarev (LDPR), as well as one of the senior intelligence officers. According to Kommersant's interlocutor in the government, although Mr. Zhigarev was included in the short list, he had no real chance of taking this position - the FSB was not happy with the option of his appointment. The candidacy of Yuri Maltsev was lobbied to the last in Rosgranitsa itself, but in his case the fact of many years of work with Dmitry Bezdelov had a negative impact. Moreover, a few weeks ago, Dmitry Rogozin called the official to his place for a conversation, demanding that he deliver on his work - the Deputy Prime Minister believed that Mr. Maltsev was not coping with his responsibilities. As a government source admitted, installing a “pure security officer” was also not entirely desirable: despite the specifics of the work, the department needed a person with experience as a manager in government agencies.

However, Sergei Komlichenko, apparently, has experience working in state security agencies: open sources contain very little information about his activities. It is known that he was born on May 15, 1971 in Ukraine, in the Kyiv region. Since the late 1990s he worked in a state-owned company "Rosvooruzhenie"(since 2000 - Rosoboronexport), and later became head of the main logistics department of the Federal Customs Service. In March 2010, he was promoted to deputy head of the department, Andrei Belyaninov, and retained the range of issues he supervised. Subsequently, by decree of President Putin, he was promoted in rank, becoming lieutenant general of the customs service. According to reviews from Mr. Komlichenko’s colleagues, during his work at the Federal Customs Service he developed a good relationship with Mr. Belyaninov, so if necessary, the latter can give positive recommendations to him.

Created by decree of President Vladimir Putin on October 11, 2007, the department is responsible for the arrangement of the state border, the creation, development and maintenance of checkpoints. One of the main tasks that will be assigned to Mr. Komlichenko will be to establish financial order in the department, taking into account the updated federal target program for 2012-2020, the budget of which is set at 134 billion rubles. That is, there will be something to “cut.”

TASS DOSSIER. On December 29, 2017, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow found the former head of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border (Rosgranitsa) Dmitry Bezdelov guilty of fraud in the development of the state border and sentenced him to 9 years in prison in a general regime colony.

Who is Dmitry Bezdelov

Dmitry Bezdelov was born in 1970.

He is a graduate of the Russian Economic Academy named after. G. V. Plekhanov. In 2003-2005 he worked as an adviser to the general director of the Almaz-Antey concern. In 2005, he was appointed deputy director of Rosoboronzakaz; in August 2008, he headed the Federal Agency for State Border Development (Rosgranitsa).

In October 2012, at a meeting of the board of Rosgranitsa, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin pointed out the unsatisfactory work of the department and its leadership. In particular, he drew attention to the delay in delivery of facilities that were supposed to be opened for the 2012 APEC summit in Vladivostok. In 2013, the federal agency had an audit commission that revealed serious violations in its activities. On October 21, 2013, Dmitry Bezdelov was released from the post of head of Rosgranitsa “at his own request.” After his resignation, he went to Italy for “rest and treatment.”

Criminal proceedings

In September 2013, the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Fraud on an especially large scale”) in connection with the theft of budget funds during the reconstruction of the Adler railway checkpoint in the Krasnodar Territory in 2009-2010. According to investigators, from September 2009 to May 2013, members of the criminal community stole and legalized budget funds in the amount of 1 billion 176 million rubles, allocated for the design, reconstruction, construction, equipment and other arrangement of checkpoints across the state border. Later, the amount of damage was reduced to 490 million rubles. Some of them, according to investigative authorities, ended up in the accounts of the Agrosoyuz bank, one of the co-owners of which (19% of the authorized capital) in 2010 was the father of the head of Rosgranitsa, Alexander Bezdelov (left the board of directors of the bank in 2014).

In the fall of 2014, an episode of theft during the reconstruction of the Pogranichny automobile checkpoint in the Primorsky Territory was added to the case.

Bringing charges against Bezdelov

On December 9, 2013, the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia issued a resolution to bring Bezdelov as a defendant under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Later, the ex-official was additionally charged under Art. 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Participation in a criminal community”).

The former head of Rosgranitsa denied all accusations against him and stated that he was not going to hide from law enforcement agencies and was ready to contact investigators by phone. On December 13, 2013, due to another failure to appear for questioning, he was declared federal, and on May 7, 2014. - on the international wanted list. On June 24, 2014, the Tver court chose a preventive measure against the former official in the form of detention (in absentia).

Arrest in Italy and extradition

On October 26, 2014, Dmitry Bezdelov was detained by Italian police at the Palladium Palace Hotel in Rome. At first he was in the Regina Coeli detention center, then transferred to house arrest. On October 2, 2015, the Court of Appeal of Rome granted the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and decided to extradite the former head of Rosgranitsa to Russia. On April 5, 2016, Italian authorities extradited Bezdelov to the Russian Federation.

Persons involved in the case

According to investigators, Bezdelov, together with the head of the Federal State Institution “Directorate for the Construction and Operation of Rosgranitsa Facilities” Oleg Senkevich and the head of the Department for the Development of State Border Facilities and Administration of the Rosgranitsa Checkpoints Danila Vavilov, created a criminal community with the aim of stealing budget funds. Persons involved in the case are also the former deputy head of Rosgranitsa Boris Khaitovich, ex-head of the Federal State Institution "Directorate for the Construction and Operation of Rosgranitsa Facilities" Sergei Sazonov, his deputy Sergei Kozlenkov, director of CJSC "Valuable Council" Evgeniy Chaika, former director of CJSC "Terminal" Zurab Katamadze, entrepreneur Nikolai Afinogenov, as well as Alexander Kazartsev.

In the spring of 2016, the Tagansky Court of Moscow passed sentences against Vavilov and Belousov, who admitted their guilt and entered into a pre-trial agreement with the investigation. Danila Vavilov was sentenced to 4 years in prison for fraud on an especially large scale, Belousov - to 3 years in prison.

The criminal case against Oleg Senkevich, who was put on the wanted list, was separated into separate proceedings and suspended.

In relation to Sergei Sazonov, Boris Khaitovich, Zurab Katamadze and Evgeniy Chaika, the court chose a preventive measure of detention, Nikolai Anfinogenov, Sergei Kozlenkov and Alexander Kazartsev - under recognizance not to leave. In July 2016, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation approved an indictment against the defendants in the case. Of these, only Alexander Kazartsev admitted his guilt (partially); the rest, including Dmitry Bezdelov, declared non-involvement in the crimes charged against them. According to the lawyer of the former head of Rosgranitsa, work on the arrangement of the border crossing in the Adler area was completed, following the results of proceedings in arbitration courts initiated by Bezdelov, about 823 million rubles were returned to the treasury from unscrupulous contractors. with an initial contract price of about 1 billion 100 million rubles.

Trial

On January 31, 2017, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow combined the criminal cases against Dmitry Bezdelov and his alleged accomplices into one proceeding. The consideration of the case on its merits began in the Meshchansky Court on February 15. At the first meeting, the head of Rosgranitsa again refused to admit his guilt. On December 21, 2017, the state prosecution requested a sentence of 10 years in prison for Dmitry Bezdelov, 9 years for Boris Khaitovich, and 3 to 8 years in prison for the remaining defendants.