Assets of the family of a former employee of Department K, Ministry of Home Affairs arrested for bribery
A court in Moscow confiscated the assets of the family of the former employee of the Department for Combating Crime in the Information Technology and Telecommunications Sector (“K”) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Georgy Satyukov, who was convicted death penalty. Arrested in absentia for accepting the largest bribe in the history of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of 5 billion rubles. This is stated in court documents reviewed by .
“During the investigation of the case, information was received that the defendant was actually possessing and using a large amount of real estate, cash, assets (securities) located in banks and open brokerage accounts. in the name of the principal. To secure possible property penalties, the Basmanny District Court accepted the investigator's request and confiscated the property,” the document said.
Many accounts, securities and precious metals owned by Satyukov's brother, father and mother were confiscated. His family's assets were also confiscated.
The criminal case against the former head of department 3 of department 4 (for fighting crimes in the field of credit and finance using information technology) of department “K”, Satyukov, was initiated in August 2023. The man was charged under Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (receiving bribes on a particularly large scale). The amount of bribe was 5 billion rubles. The second defendant in this case is Satyukov's colleague, Dmitry Sokolov, who is considered a mediator. Both defendants were arrested in absentia, fled from law enforcement and were placed on the international wanted list. At the same time, investigators of the Investigative Committee leading the case interrogated both people and confiscated their foreign passports.
According to the investigation, Satyukov and Sokolov, under threat of criminal prosecution, imposed patronage on the system administrator of the cryptocurrency exchange World Exchange Services Pte. Ltd., registered in Singapore, to Alexey Ivanov.
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