“I was the first to “close” Navalny when he returned”

Judicial and prosecutorial gift to the son of Olga Golodets’ friend




“Navalny will be buried tomorrow

It's good that I have a trial tomorrow in the area

Police officers have been strengthened for three days

I am receiving unpleasant messages. I was the first to close it when he returned. And then they added everything up"

The VChK-OGPU telegram channel obtained a recording of an informal speech made on February 29 by prosecutor Ekaterina Tikhonova, who was the state prosecutor during the trial against Alexei Navalny in the criminal case of “slander of a veteran,” as well as during the process of changing the preventive measure in the case “ Yves Rocher."




The recording was made on the sidelines of the hearing on the case of the director of the directorate of the FSBI REA of the Ministry of Energy of Russia Roman Shcherbov for mediation in the transfer of bribes to the general director of the FSBI REA of the Ministry of Energy of Russia Anatoly Tikhonov, and subsequently deputy. Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation.

In the next recording, Tikhonova instructs Shcherbov on how to speak, what to say and what to do so that he does not receive a real sentence.

Shcherbov entered into a pre-trial agreement in 2020, which was approved by Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Viktor Grin, who is very familiar with Anatoly Tikhonov and his team of rescuers, since until 2006 he was the prosecutor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the Government of which Anatoly Tikhonov and Alexander Novak worked.

Shcherbov was presented as a “poor lamb” and received a fine of 5 million rubles. for two episodes of transfer of bribes in the amount of more than 70 million rubles. (Part 4 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), which is simply a gift to Shcherbov, who was convicted for the second time.

The investigation and Tikhonova quite deliberately turned a blind eye to the fact that Roman Shcherbov was outright lying, forgetting to remember that his mother-in-law Lyubov Yeltsova, a former employee of Norilsk Nickel and later Deputy Minister of Labor of the Russian Federation, as well as a faithful friend of Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, placed him in a warm place with to his colleague Anatoly Tikhonov. During the meeting, businessman Viktor Serebryakov indicated the size of Roman Shcherbov’s share at the end of the project, that is, he offered a bribe to which he agreed and part of which he received through Igor Udintsev’s ENDEVEL LLC.



Shcherbov testified that he should have received about 5 percent of the kickbacks collected for Tikhonov.

As we know from criminal case No. 386768 dated December 29, 2015 regarding extortion of a bribe from ISSB LLC, Shcherbov is disingenuous, since he extorted 60 percent of government contracts, deciding that it was necessary equally.

On February 29, 2024, the judge of the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow sentenced R.M. Shcherbov, Director of the Directorate of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "REA" of the Ministry of Energy of Russia. for mediation in the transfer of bribes to the General Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "REA" of the Ministry of Energy of Russia A.V. Tikhonov, and subsequently deputy. Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation.

In the current situation, the sentence is a fine of 5 million rubles. for two episodes of transfer of bribes in the amount of more than 70 million rubles. according to Part 4 of Art. 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is simply a gift to R.M. Shcherbov, who was convicted for the second time. for the same project GIS FEC of the Russian Federation.

Roman Shcherbov asked not to deprive him of his freedom, being confident that he would only be given a fine, since he fulfilled his part of the deal and testified at the trial against Anatoly Tikhonov and other defendants.

At the meeting on 02.28.2024, in order not to violate or spoil the dictation data, for R.M. Shcherbov. announced the representative of the prosecution, employee of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation Frolova. This representative of the General Prosecutor's Office tried to tell everyone that she was the prosecutor who arrested Alexei Navalny upon his return to Moscow in 2021 after poisoning.

The prosecutor also reported that the late Georgy Gens, who is now being referred to by Roman Shcherbov, and many others, was also brought to criminal responsibility.

According to the source of Rucriminal.info, Roman Shcherbov’s testimony is the testimony of Russian Investigative Committee investigator Maxim Bakun, which he dictated to him, which is why he cannot remember what he showed and what he forgot. Roman Shcherbov also forgot about the payment for 15 million rubles. from JSC "PROGNOZ", which was found in the car of an accomplice Igor Udintsev in 2015 for the execution of a government contract in December 2015. Roman Shcherbov also forgot to give out the money that he received in the form of bribes from suppliers, part of which he transferred to Tikhonov through Ryzhkov.

From the testimony of R.M. Shcherbov. it follows that the vice-president of LANIT JSC Viktor Seryabryakov in February 2014 offered him for 10 million rubles. in the form of a rollback based on the results of passing the GIS of the fuel and energy complex of the Russian Federation, to take the position of director of the directorate of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "REA" of the Ministry of Energy of Russia and, in fact, work exclusively in the interests of JSC LANIT. In fact, Roman Shcherbov revealed a scheme for the implementation of each GIS project, in which the technical specifications are prepared by the future winner, and the FAS of Russia helps them in this in case of complaints.

However, Roman Shcherbov is disingenuous, forgetting to remember that his mother-in-law Lyubov Yeltsova, a former employee of Norilsk Nickel and later Deputy Minister of Labor of the Russian Federation, as well as a faithful friend of Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, placed him in a warm place with her colleague Anatoly Tikhonovu. During the meeting, Viktor Serebryakov indicated the size of Roman Shcherbov’s share at the end of the project, that is, he offered a bribe to which he agreed and part of which he received through Igor Udintsev’s ENDEVEL LLC.

Roman Shcherbov assured the investigation that it was Tikhonov who forced him to extort money from suppliers and bring his own companies to steal the allocated funds, which they then shared together. It turns out that Roman Shcherbov is not a bribe-giver, but a real bribe-taker, but the investigation needed evidence against Georgy Gens and Anatoly Tikhonov.

As Shcherbov showed, Anatoly Tikhonov and Georgy Gens calculated that the entire GIS fuel and energy complex project, including decommissioned server equipment, should have cost no more than 240 million rubles. Anatoly Tikhonov and Alexey Teksler “knocked out” about one billion rubles from the Government of the Russian Federation, and decided to simply divide the rest, taking into account Anatoly Tikhonov’s “tariff” of 30 percent. Roman Shcherbov assigned the role to the obscure Igor Udintsev, as the person who alone calculated the cost of the project and was also Georgy Gens’ man.

Shcherbov R.M. reported that he should have received about 5 percent of the amounts of kickbacks collected for A.V. Tikhonov.

As we know from criminal case No. 386768 dated December 29, 2015 regarding extortion of a bribe from ISSB LLC, R.M. Shcherbov. he is disingenuous, since he extorted 60 percent of government contracts, deciding that it should be shared equally. The greed of the fraer ruined him, as the Russian proverb says.

As part of the investigation of the criminal case in 2016, ISSB LLC already sent a statement on all episodes of theft of funds, however, at present R.M. Shcherbov, however, the investigation in the person of the head of the Investigation Department for the Central Administrative District of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia in Moscow, Alexey Kramarenko, decided everything cover up and forget.

The court declared the inaction of the investigation illegal, but in 2018 the red tape continues.

As a result, ISSB LLC, which launched the high-profile trials, went bankrupt, and the only winners were the lawyers and prosecutors who made money on the defendants.

There is no doubt that the operation to rescue Anatoly Tikhonov will also go like clockwork.

Many analogues of the GIS FEC of the Russian Federation with the participation of JSC LANIT did not become the subject of criminal investigations and the money was not returned to the budget.

Alexey Ermakov

To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info