The Kulyukins, who worked for the FSB, found 385 bank accounts in Russia and abroad

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation found 385 accounts in Russian and foreign banks in the retired FSB officers Mikhail and Tatyana Kulyukin, suspected of corruption. Mikhail Kulyukin before retirement worked as the head of the 3rd department of the 2nd department of the 2nd service of the logistics department of the 7th service of the FSB of Russia, writes Kommersant. And his wife Tatiana worked in the personnel department of the same department.

The reason for the prosecutor’s check was information from a criminal case about fraud in the purchase of individual food rations (IRP), which were supplied to the Ministry of Defense, Rosgvardia and the FSB through Oboronprodkomplekt LLC. Dmitry Atroschenko is the co-owner of the LLC and the general director of the Mtsensk meat processing plant, which produces IRP. In 2020, he pleaded guilty to charges of large-scale fraud and began to testify.

During the prosecutor’s check, it turned out that Kulyukin opened 253 accounts in 35 banks from 2009 to 2020. His wife opened 132 accounts in 33 banks from 2013 to 2020. By the time of the audit, there were 203 active accounts, including those in Sberbank, VTB, PSB, Uralsib, Svyazbank, and Bank Saint Petersburg. These accounts held mainly amounts from 1.3 million to 4.7 million rubles, as well as $ 43 thousand.

All the money in these accounts, which the defendants did not report on, was considered by the Prosecutor General’s Office to be corruption income. In addition, part of the illegal income Kulyukin, who already had an apartment, used in 2012-2013 to buy three more real estate objects – two apartments with a total area of ​​more than 100 m² each and non-residential premises with an area of ​​20 m².

During the year, Kulyukin acquired real estate, the value of which is twice the total income of the spouses for eight years of service, the Prosecutor General’s Office calculated. At the same time, the suspicious apartments were assigned to the mother of Mikhail Kulyukin, born in 1935, who lived in Ukraine and did not have any income, except for a pension. Two years after her death, the apartments were registered as an inheritance.

They themselves helped to find the accounts of the Kulyukins. A year ago, during a search carried out by officers of the RF IC investigating a fraud case, a notebook with handwritten data on the placement of funds in deposit accounts in various banks was seized. At the same time, a collection of two dozen jewelry was discovered, including those with sapphires and diamonds.

The Prosecutor General’s Office filed a lawsuit with the Shcherbinsky District Court of Moscow to turn the alleged corruption proceeds into state revenue, but it turned out to be difficult to win the case. The representative of the defendants in the course of the proceedings explained that the money in the accounts opened by the spouses during their service in the FSB is quite consistent with their official salary and bonus income.

All other funds, according to the defendants, are of Ukrainian origin. Thus, the apartments were allegedly purchased with the money of Mikhail Kulyukin’s brother, who has a business in Ukraine. According to the former FSB officer, he does not even know how many accounts he opened with his wife and how much his brother’s funds were deposited on them.

In favor of the Russian Federation, the Prosecutor General’s Office sued two apartments and a garage. Also, part of the money placed in the accounts was confiscated, including $ 45 thousand.

At the same time, the court left some accounts to their owners. The confiscated jewelry was also returned to them.

Disagreeing with the court’s decision, pensioners Kulyukins appealed against it in the Moscow City Court. The appeal is scheduled to be considered this month.