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The court sentenced the founder of the supercomputer company T-Platforms Vsevolod Opanasenko to prison. However, the businessman will not serve time behind bars, as he served the court-appointed term in a pretrial detention center and under house arrest. But the problems did not end there. T-Platforms owes the state several billion rubles. In addition, Opanasenko himself had to pay more than a billion as a fine.
Court verdict
The Meshchansky Court of Moscow sentenced the founder of the supercomputer company T-Platforms Vsevolod Opanasenko to two years and four months in a general regime penal colony. This was reported by TAdviser with reference to the court's press service.
Vsevolod Opanasenko was involved in a criminal case of fraud related to the supply of equipment to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was accused of violating Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code - fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale. The maximum penalty for this is imprisonment for up to 10 years. The court issued its verdict on May 10, 2023.
However, the founder of T-Platforms will not serve time behind bars, court representatives clarified, since the sentence is already considered served. The time he spent in a pretrial detention center and under house arrest during the investigation and trial was counted towards this term. Before Opanasenko was placed under house arrest, he spent almost a year in a pretrial detention center. He was released from the cell in mid-March 2020.
The court sentenced another defendant in the case, the former head of the communications department of the IT department, communications and information protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Alexandrov, to the same prison term (two years and four months). According to the investigation, Alexandrov knew that T-Platforms was supplying equipment that did not meet the technical specifications of the purchase.
The court imposed a fine of 357 thousand rubles on Alexandrov and Opanasenko.
The court also sentenced Oksana Bokova, the former head of one of the departments of the Voronezh University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to a fine of 200 thousand rubles. According to the investigation, Aleksandrov was nominally employed as a teacher at the Voronezh Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, for which he received a salary, but he did not fulfill his duties. Bokova helped him with the fictitious employment, the court believes.
The essence of the case
Vsevolod Opanasenko was detained in Moscow at the end of March 2019 and sent to custody in a case related to the problematic delivery of computers to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for 357.1 million rubles on Russian Baikal processors. Opanasenko faced imprisonment for up to 10 years. Against the background of this and many other related problems, T-Platforms essentially ceased real operations by the end of 2019. The company was founded in 2002.
In addition, T-Platforms must pay the state 3.26 billion rubles. This decision was made by the Moscow Arbitration Court, to which the Ministry of Industry and Trade filed a claim against the company on October 5, 2021. Within this amount, 2.76 billion rubles were collected from the organization for unrealized projects under subsidies that the ministry issued to T-Platforms at the end of 2016 following a competition. The company will have to pay another 500 million rubles in the form of a fine. The subsidies were received when Opanasenko was the main shareholder and head of the company.
At the end of March 2022, the US Treasury Department announced the introduction of sanctions against the Russian technology sector. In particular, restrictions were imposed on T-Platforms.
Work at Rostec and a series of bankruptcies
As CNews learned, in March 2022, Vsevolod Opanasenko, who is under investigation, began working in a high position in one of the structures of the Rostec state corporation.
In June 2022, CNews wrote that the founder of T-Platforms would have to pay VEB 1.65 billion rubles. In August 2022, Vsevolod Opanasenko decided to declare himself bankrupt.
In October 2022, T-Platforms, founded by Opanasenko, was declared bankrupt.
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The court reviewed the sentence handed down in May 2023 to the founder of the T-Platform supercomputer manufacturer Vsevolod Opanasenko and increased the prison term from two years and four months to five years. Last time, the accused was released after the trial, since he had already served the sentence while the investigation and trial were ongoing. Now he has been arrested again and, apparently, will go to prison after all.
The sentence was doubled
After reviewing the appeal, the Moscow City Court increased the sentence of the founder of the T-Platform supercomputer manufacturer Vsevolod Opanasenko from two years and four months to five years in a general regime penal colony, TASS writes, citing information received from law enforcement agencies.
Thus, Opanasenko has been arrested for the second time in a fraud case. He was taken into custody in the courtroom after the verdict was passed and again sent to a pretrial detention center.
In March 2019, he was arrested for the first time in a criminal case of fraud related to the supply of computers with domestic Baikal-T1 processors to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for 357.1 million rubles.
In May 2023, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow found him guilty under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Russian Criminal Code (fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale, the maximum penalty is up to 10 years in prison), but released him from custody, since it considered the sentence of more than two years of imprisonment to have already been served. The time he spent in a pre-trial detention center and under house arrest while the investigation and trial were ongoing was counted towards this term.
A profitable government contract
In the spring of 2023, the court also fined Opanasenko 357 thousand rubles. Another defendant in the case, the former head of the communications department of the IT department, communications and information protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Alexandrov, received the same fine and two years and four months in prison. The former head of one of the departments of the Voronezh University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Oksana Bokova, was sentenced to a fine of 200 thousand rubles.
As the investigation found out, Opanasenko decided to gain an advantage when concluding a government contract and convinced Alexandrov to help him. As a result of their actions, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was supplied with equipment that did not meet technical requirements. The contract amount of more than 350 million rubles was classified as damage.
According to the investigation, Alexandrov was nominally employed as a teacher at the Voronezh Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, for which he received a salary, but he did not fulfill his duties. It was Bokova who helped him in fictitious employment, as the court decided.
The fate of T-Platforms
T-Platforms was founded in 2002, and in January 2012 it registered a subsidiary, Baikal Electronics, in Moscow. In October 2019, the Baikal-M processor, based on the 28 nm process technology, premiered.
By the end of 2019, against the backdrop of legal problems, T-Platforms essentially ceased its real operations.
At the end of 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, through the court, achieved the recovery of a huge amount issued to T-Platforms in the form of subsidies for the development of computing equipment, including on Russian Baikal processors. None of the projects supported by the state were implemented.
In October 2021, with the filing of a corresponding claim by Ramek-VS JSC, the bankruptcy history of T-Platforms began. By that time, the developer had accumulated an impressive list of creditors to whom it had accumulated a solid debt.
In the financial statements of December 31, 2016, the value of the assets of T-Platforms JSC was RUB 5.6 billion. On September 29, 2022, the company was declared bankrupt. In the balance sheet for 2022, its assets are already valued at RUB 342.95 million.
Court verdict
The Meshchansky Court of Moscow sentenced the founder of the supercomputer company T-Platforms Vsevolod Opanasenko to two years and four months in a general regime penal colony. This was reported by TAdviser with reference to the court's press service.
Vsevolod Opanasenko was involved in a criminal case of fraud related to the supply of equipment to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was accused of violating Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code - fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale. The maximum penalty for this is imprisonment for up to 10 years. The court issued its verdict on May 10, 2023.
However, the founder of T-Platforms will not serve time behind bars, court representatives clarified, since the sentence is already considered served. The time he spent in a pretrial detention center and under house arrest during the investigation and trial was counted towards this term. Before Opanasenko was placed under house arrest, he spent almost a year in a pretrial detention center. He was released from the cell in mid-March 2020.
The court sentenced another defendant in the case, the former head of the communications department of the IT department, communications and information protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Alexandrov, to the same prison term (two years and four months). According to the investigation, Alexandrov knew that T-Platforms was supplying equipment that did not meet the technical specifications of the purchase.
The court imposed a fine of 357 thousand rubles on Alexandrov and Opanasenko.
The court also sentenced Oksana Bokova, the former head of one of the departments of the Voronezh University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to a fine of 200 thousand rubles. According to the investigation, Aleksandrov was nominally employed as a teacher at the Voronezh Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, for which he received a salary, but he did not fulfill his duties. Bokova helped him with the fictitious employment, the court believes.
The essence of the case
Vsevolod Opanasenko was detained in Moscow at the end of March 2019 and sent to custody in a case related to the problematic delivery of computers to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for 357.1 million rubles on Russian Baikal processors. Opanasenko faced imprisonment for up to 10 years. Against the background of this and many other related problems, T-Platforms essentially ceased real operations by the end of 2019. The company was founded in 2002.
In addition, T-Platforms must pay the state 3.26 billion rubles. This decision was made by the Moscow Arbitration Court, to which the Ministry of Industry and Trade filed a claim against the company on October 5, 2021. Within this amount, 2.76 billion rubles were collected from the organization for unrealized projects under subsidies that the ministry issued to T-Platforms at the end of 2016 following a competition. The company will have to pay another 500 million rubles in the form of a fine. The subsidies were received when Opanasenko was the main shareholder and head of the company.
At the end of March 2022, the US Treasury Department announced the introduction of sanctions against the Russian technology sector. In particular, restrictions were imposed on T-Platforms.
Work at Rostec and a series of bankruptcies
As CNews learned, in March 2022, Vsevolod Opanasenko, who is under investigation, began working in a high position in one of the structures of the Rostec state corporation.
In June 2022, CNews wrote that the founder of T-Platforms would have to pay VEB 1.65 billion rubles. In August 2022, Vsevolod Opanasenko decided to declare himself bankrupt.
In October 2022, T-Platforms, founded by Opanasenko, was declared bankrupt.
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The court reviewed the sentence handed down in May 2023 to the founder of the T-Platform supercomputer manufacturer Vsevolod Opanasenko and increased the prison term from two years and four months to five years. Last time, the accused was released after the trial, since he had already served the sentence while the investigation and trial were ongoing. Now he has been arrested again and, apparently, will go to prison after all.
The sentence was doubled
After reviewing the appeal, the Moscow City Court increased the sentence of the founder of the T-Platform supercomputer manufacturer Vsevolod Opanasenko from two years and four months to five years in a general regime penal colony, TASS writes, citing information received from law enforcement agencies.
Thus, Opanasenko has been arrested for the second time in a fraud case. He was taken into custody in the courtroom after the verdict was passed and again sent to a pretrial detention center.
In March 2019, he was arrested for the first time in a criminal case of fraud related to the supply of computers with domestic Baikal-T1 processors to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for 357.1 million rubles.
In May 2023, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow found him guilty under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Russian Criminal Code (fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale, the maximum penalty is up to 10 years in prison), but released him from custody, since it considered the sentence of more than two years of imprisonment to have already been served. The time he spent in a pre-trial detention center and under house arrest while the investigation and trial were ongoing was counted towards this term.
A profitable government contract
In the spring of 2023, the court also fined Opanasenko 357 thousand rubles. Another defendant in the case, the former head of the communications department of the IT department, communications and information protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Alexandrov, received the same fine and two years and four months in prison. The former head of one of the departments of the Voronezh University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Oksana Bokova, was sentenced to a fine of 200 thousand rubles.
As the investigation found out, Opanasenko decided to gain an advantage when concluding a government contract and convinced Alexandrov to help him. As a result of their actions, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was supplied with equipment that did not meet technical requirements. The contract amount of more than 350 million rubles was classified as damage.
According to the investigation, Alexandrov was nominally employed as a teacher at the Voronezh Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, for which he received a salary, but he did not fulfill his duties. It was Bokova who helped him in fictitious employment, as the court decided.
The fate of T-Platforms
T-Platforms was founded in 2002, and in January 2012 it registered a subsidiary, Baikal Electronics, in Moscow. In October 2019, the Baikal-M processor, based on the 28 nm process technology, premiered.
By the end of 2019, against the backdrop of legal problems, T-Platforms essentially ceased its real operations.
At the end of 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, through the court, achieved the recovery of a huge amount issued to T-Platforms in the form of subsidies for the development of computing equipment, including on Russian Baikal processors. None of the projects supported by the state were implemented.
In October 2021, with the filing of a corresponding claim by Ramek-VS JSC, the bankruptcy history of T-Platforms began. By that time, the developer had accumulated an impressive list of creditors to whom it had accumulated a solid debt.
In the financial statements of December 31, 2016, the value of the assets of T-Platforms JSC was RUB 5.6 billion. On September 29, 2022, the company was declared bankrupt. In the balance sheet for 2022, its assets are already valued at RUB 342.95 million.
