Wanted posting
The database of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs states that “Belousov Vadim Vladimirovich, born October 2, 1960, is sought in accordance with the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.”
3 August 2022, on the website of the Investigative Committee seen A message that the Moscow City Court sentenced Belousov to 10 years in prison in a strict regime colony. The Chamber noted that the court considered the evidence gathered by the investigators sufficient and held that the parliamentarian and his accomplice, the former chief accountant of Chelyabinsk First Khlebokombinat OJSC Margarita Butakova, were guilty of “taking bribes on a particularly large scale”. “
The investigation and the court found that “from 2010 to 2014, as part of an organized crime group, Vadim Belousov and Margarita Butakova, together with the former governor of the Chelyabinsk region, Mikhail Yurevich” and other accomplices “received bribes from their representatives”. In order to provide general protection in the area of the distribution state, a road construction conglomerate has ordered a total of more than three billion rubles for the maintenance, repair and construction of roads.
The Investigative Committee said that in addition to Yurevich, the former governor of the Chelyabinsk region, who fled the investigation and court, two more malicious people were placed on the international wanted list.
“By court decision, Belousov was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison and a fine of 500 million rubles for not appearing in court. In connection with the performance of the function of a representative of power for 3 years, he is deprived of the right to hold positions in the civil service and local government, and also deprived of the state award – the medal of the Order of Merit. Fatherland, II degree. Butakova was sentenced to 5 years suspended imprisonment and a fine of 500 million rubles for the presence of diseases. The movable and immovable properties of the convicts were confiscated, ”she said.
the case of Belousov
According to open sources, Vadim Belousov was born on October 2, 1960 in Chelyabinsk. In the 1990s, he served as the commercial director of bakery No. 1 in Chelyabinsk (now OAO First Bakery). The enterprise is part of the holding of the Russian agro-industrial association Makfa, whose board of directors was headed by the future governor of the Chelyabinsk region, Mikhail Yurevich, from the 1990s until the early 2000s. From 2004 to 2011, Belousov headed the management company of the holding. In 2010-2011 he worked as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk Region from the United Russia party. And since 2011, he has been a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the VI convocation from United Russia. In the spring of 2016, Belousov left the party and was re-elected to the State Duma, left the party and in September of the same year was elected to the State Duma of the 7th convocation as part of the list of candidates from A. Only Russia. Since 2021, he is a deputy of the State Duma of the VIII convocation of the same party.
At the end of May 2017, the Russian Investigative Committee announced that a criminal case for corruption was launched against Yurevich, the former governor of the Chelyabinsk region. According to investigators, during the overhaul of roads in the region in 2011-2014, Yurevich and his accomplices received at least three billion rubles for patronage from businessmen in the region. But the governor left Russia. He was put on the wanted list.
Investigators found that Vadim Belousov and his mother-in-law, the former chief accountant of Chelyabinsk First Khlebokombinat OJSC Margarita Butakova, also belonged to the group of attackers. They received bribes in the amount of 3,253,147,000 rubles from representatives of road construction in Yuzhuralavtoban, who held patronage in the distribution of state orders for the maintenance, repair and construction of roads.
The investigation found that Belousov contacted entrepreneurs on behalf of the governor and offered favorable conditions for concluding state contracts in exchange for 20% of all funds transferred to the controlled accounts of organizations. At the same time, he received funding through deputies from the deputy and ex-governor.
On June 19, 2018, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation requested the State Duma of the 7th convocation to deprive Belousov of parliamentary immunity and allow him to bring the parliamentarian to justice. On December 6, 2018, the State Duma agreed: 353 deputies voted to comply with the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, 21 – against, two abstained.
In March 2019, the court refused to detain Belousov and released him on bail. The same preventive measure was chosen for Margarita Butakova. None of the defendants pleaded guilty.
On August 3, 2022, Belousov did not appear for the reading of the guilty verdict. His lawyer explained that his client did not appear because of his employment, but the court found that justification disrespectful.
Source: Gazeta
