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Alexei Ulyukayev (second from left) in the Basmanny court. November 15, 2016

Photo: Artyom Korotayev/TASS

the November 15 decision of the Basmanny court, former Minister of economic development Alexei Ulyukayev was sent under house arrest for two months. He is accused of receiving a bribe in the amount of $ 2 million for a positive evaluation of the deal for the privatization of “Bashneft”, “Rosneft”. What is known about the case of the speaker in the review of the RBC

What happened

• November 14 was arrested the now former Minister of economic development Alexei Ulyukayev. He is accused of receiving a bribe in the amount of $ 2 million for a positive evaluation of the deal for the privatization of Bashneft by Rosneft.
• According to one of the lawyers speaker — Timothy Grineva, the detention occurred in the office of “Rosneft”. The company information is not confirmed. As reported the representative of the RCDS Svetlana Petrenko, the speaker was caught red-handed.
• Handle case where there was money, was treated with a special substance, traces of which, according to the newspaper “Kommersant”, later discovered in the hands of the ex-Minister. According to the newspaper, he had to get two cases: one has already been submitted to the Minister in one of the offices of Rosneft, the other he allegedly promised to convey it to the car and put.
• the Decision of the Basmanny court placed the speaker under house arrest until January 15.
• November 16, Vladimir Putin sent the speaker to resign in connection with loss of trust.

Why did you come over Ulyukaev

• according to the source RBC, Ulyukaev was in development for law enforcement agencies not less than one year. In late summer the court had granted permission to wiretap his phone.

• Development Ulyukayev began after complaints to law enforcement agencies representatives of “Rosneft”, which, according to Petrenko, ex-Minister extorted a bribe for issuing a positive opinion on the company’s acquisition of 50.08% of shares of “Bashneft” the state, expressed threats to create obstacles to the activities of the company using his authority.

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Position speaker

• the Ex-Minister did not admit his guilt and called the incident a “provocation”. He also stated his readiness to cooperate with the investigation.

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the Defendants

• , the media reported that in addition to the speaker in case there can be new figurants. The source of “RIA Novosti” said that the speech can go about the prosecution of seven people. According to the source TASS familiar with the situation, “now is established and the involvement of other persons to illegal acts, including officials from the MAYOR”.
• Vedomosti, citing a senior employee of one of law enforcement agencies reported that in addition to the speaker operational development could be and other high-ranking officials, in particular Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, presidential aide Andrei Belousov, the Director of the Department of economic development Oksana Tarasenko and assistant Igor Shuvalov Marina Romanova.

Alexei Ulyukayev in the Basmanny court. November 15, 2016

Photo credit: Anton Sergienko/RBC

That “Bashneft” and “Rosneft”

• the speaker was one of those those who opposed the participation of “Rosneft” in the privatization of “Bashneft” and called Rosneft “is not an appropriate buyer for this asset.” Due to disputes privatization was pending, the trial was resumed on 30 September, 10 October the head of the government Dmitry Medvedev signed a special decree on the sale of 50.08% of “Bashneft”, and 12 October, Rosneft transferred to the budget approved transaction 329,69 billion rubles.
• Rosneft said the deal to buy the shares of Bashneft is unlikely to be revised because of the arrest of the speaker.
• Petrenko said that the acquisition of shares of “Bashneft”, “Rosneft” is not the subject of the investigation in the case of the speaker. The legality of the acquisition of shares of “Bashneft” has not been challenged.

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Reaction to the case speaker

• Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called the incident “the hardest thing for the government and for the government.”
• President Vladimir Putin, according to his press Secretary, Dmitry Peskov, was aware of the pending speaker around operational action.
• the Speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin said that “all are equal before law”.

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