As reported by the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court sentenced Alexey Gordeyev, the chief state tax inspector of the Federal Tax Service Inspectorate No. 1 (for control and supervision of taxpayers in the sphere of budget financing). This case is an attempt to "dismantle" an entire network of corrupt tax officials, with cover-ups at the very top of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation. However, all other defendants in the case have been "hidden" from the investigation.
For all his actions, the court sentenced Alexey Gordeyev to a very harsh sentence: 10 years in a maximum-security penal colony, 10 years' ban from holding public office, loss of his class rank, a fine of 5.3 million rubles, confiscation of 500,000 rubles received as part of the bribe, and a seizure of all property until the fine is repaid.
According to a source, this sentence came as a shock to Gordeyev, who, together with the leadership of this Moscow tax office, had been engaged in criminal machinations for years, creating fraudulent schemes to extract enormous bribes from businessmen, and trading databases and tax secrets. In exchange for his silence, Gordeyev was promised until the very end that senior management at the Federal Tax Service would cover for him.
Indeed, the support from the Federal Tax Service's leadership was clearly visible. For example, even while under arrest and spending a lengthy period in pretrial detention, Gordeyev was not fired and remained a tax officer and received a salary until the very end.
The investigation also led to the discovery of Andrei Proshin, head of the department for coordinating and supporting tax audits at Interdistrict Inspectorate No. 1, against whom a criminal case was opened.
According to the investigation, he and his colleagues were involved in criminal activities, including fraud, bribery, database trading, and tax secrecy violations.
Proshin was Alexey Gordeyev's immediate supervisor.
During the investigation, Proshin was found to own real estate worth 2 billion rubles, registered to his alleged ex-wife (who is unemployed), with whom he is formally divorced but for some reason continues to share an apartment.
Meanwhile, Proshin's former supervisor, Alexey Rukhlenko, also named in the criminal case, was urgently transferred away from Moscow: he is now the head of the tax inspectorate in Shakhtyorsk, Donetsk People's Republic.
The new territories, as VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info discovered, are overseen by Deputy Head of the Federal Tax Service of Russia Timur Shinaliev, who previously worked at the 26th Moscow Tax Authority, along with Proshin, Rukhlenko, and Gordeyev.
Our project is eagerly awaiting the outcome of this investigation.
