Earlier, experts said on Business FM that all these cases

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Or the case of information systems in law enforcement agencies: in the fall of 2021, the Main Military Prosecutor's Office sent materials to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on theft and abuse against seven officers. They were responsible for the implementation of the Real Estate information system in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian National Guard. Almost 200 million rubles were spent on it, but it never started working, the investigation assures. At least two such cases in the courts actually fell apart, says Business FM court observer Maria Lokotetskaya, who covers all these processes. In the case of former Energy Minister Tikhonov, the defendants themselves are not completely satisfied, but the defense equates the requested terms almost to an acquittal (with a lot of reservations, of course). Maria Lokotetskaya continues: "During the debate of bahamas whatsapp number database the parties, the Prosecutor General's Office requested for him the actual time served, though with a gigantic fine of more than half a billion rubles, and for his six alleged accomplices, suspended sentences, though with large fines. And although the defendants themselves, of course, were not particularly happy that they were being asked to be found guilty, saying that they did not know how they would live even if they were given a suspended sentence, but were left with gigantic fines, but the lawyers did not share their point of view and said that in this way the investigation had in fact admitted its defeat."
have a common pattern, noting that the budget of government agencies is limited, and such systems are expensive, it is often impossible to buy them in one budget year, and then government contracts are split. First, something is created, then it is finalized, and then technically supported. Expenses are divided into several budget years. But law enforcement agencies have questions about this. However, banal bribes and kickbacks are also not uncommon in this business, says information security expert, CEO of Phishman Alexey Gorelkin: "In general, are players and market participants afraid of such government contracts? Of course, they are afraid. They are afraid, because at some point unpleasant conversations may begin on the topic of how much of what "kickback" will have to be given to whom. This is unpleasant for everyone. Not all entrepreneurs are ready, after they were offered to make a "kickback", to go to the relevant authorities and send these people who asked for money to prison."

Market participants, however, note that there is more order in the industry. Including in interactions with government agencies. Working with budget money is more difficult than with private money, but there are options for insuring yourself. The advice is shared by the managing director of RTM Group, an expert in the field of information security and law in IT Evgeny Tsarev: "We strongly recommend involving a third party when accepting completed work, but not only work, but also deliveries of complex equipment, so that some expert can check at the acceptance stage whether everything is complete, whether everything has been delivered, whether there is compliance with the technical specifications. Because this is how the document signing system is built, as a rule, the first person signs, the acts are signed by the commission and again the first person, and in most cases the responsibility will be borne by the first person, who does not always understand at all what is happening in this project. In order to eliminate such risks, it is better to contact some independent experts who will attach some additional conclusion to this same act, and in the event of questions from the same law enforcement agencies, such a conclusion cannot be simply dismissed. That is, it will be in the case in any case and, perhaps, the case itself will not exist."

Returning to the case of former Deputy Energy Minister Anatoly Tikhonov, it is worth noting that during the trial, five of the seven defendants, including Tikhonov, did not admit guilt. And two more - Viktor Serebryakov and Igor Udintsev - did not deny the factual circumstances of the case, but demanded that their actions be reclassified as fraud. During the investigation, both confessed.