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The designer of the intellectual system for supporting the activities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs could not stand three weeks in a pre-trial detention center.
During the three weeks spent under arrest, the largest information technology specialist in Russia, the founder and head of AT Consulting LLC Sergey Shilov pleaded guilty, repented and even began to extinguish the billions in damage allegedly caused to him during the design and installation of a closed communication system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. According to Kommersant's sources, the accused is now discussing with the investigation the terms of a pre-trial cooperation agreement, under which he plans to leave the pre-trial detention center under house arrest. The investigation, in turn, is waiting for him to testify against alleged accomplices from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Kommersant's interlocutor close to the investigation claims that Sergei Shilov's active repentance occurred under rather curious circumstances. During the next interrogation taking place in the pre-trial detention center in the presence of three lawyers, the investigator suddenly announced that the accused urgently needed medical assistance. Such concern for the health of the accused, unusual for law enforcement officers, surprised the defense lawyers, especially considering that their client did not look sick at all. Nevertheless, the interrogation was interrupted, and after returning from the “medical examination” a few minutes later, Mr. Shilov thanked his defense lawyers for their work and introduced them to his new lawyer, Alexander Zheleznikov.
According to another Kommersant source, this decision of the accused has matured from the first day of his placement in a pre-trial detention center, which took place by decision of the Basmanny Court on March 1. Even then, the IT specialist made it clear to his defenders that he would go to all the conditions of the investigation in order to get out of the detention center, at least under house arrest. However, the expected deal between the accused and the Prosecutor General's Office, according to Kommersant's interlocutors, has not yet been concluded. The fact is that one confession and repentance of Mr. Shilov is not enough for moving from a cell to an apartment. Nevertheless, preparations for the deal are in full swing. So, for example, the accused told the investigator that he had already begun to pay off the damage allegedly caused to him by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Its representatives transferred to the account of the police department a symbolic amount of 1.4 billion rubles on the scale of alleged abuses. amount, but Kommersant's interlocutors argue that the main thing in this case is not money, but the running process itself.
At the same time, the main argument of Mr. Shilov in negotiations for a deal, according to Kommersant's sources, will not be money at all, but information on the merits of the criminal case, which the IT specialist promises to provide to the investigation.
Recall that Sergei Shilov was originally a witness in a high-profile criminal case of abuse of power (Article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), committed, according to the TFR, by Andrey Nechaev, the former head of the departmental NGO Special Equipment and Communications under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. In 2014, according to the investigation, Mr. Nechaev, on behalf of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, ordered his friend, General Director of AT Consulting LLC Sergey Shilov, to design and install the so-called Unified Intelligent System for Supporting Activities (ISOD) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation worth 1.4 billion rubles. The work, as the ICR believes today, was only partially completed, but the customer Nechaev hurried to pay off the contractor, for which he received a corresponding charge. In October last year, Mr. Nechaev was arrested by the Basmanny District Court. He has yet to admit his guilt.
Sergey Shilov, who managed to remain in the status of a witness last fall, tried for several months to convince the investigation that the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was carried out impeccably by his company, but on March 1 he was placed in a pre-trial detention center and he was charged with incitement (Article 33 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ) Mr. Nechaev to abuse. At the process of choosing a measure of restraint in the Basmanny Court, the lawyers of the IT specialist argued that the investigation needed his arrest only in order to get him to confess his guilt and testify against Andrei Nechaev, who, according to the ICR, paid off the contract, having received an impressive " rollback". The defenders seem to have been right: just 23 days after Sergei Shilov's arrest, investigators seem to have received both from him. Now it is the turn of Andrei Nechaev himself, whose curator, Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Makhonov, was dismissed by presidential decree shortly after the scandal, and is now a witness in the case.
Biography, career
Born in 1977 in the city of Salavat, Republic of Bashkortostan.
In 1999 he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. In 2007, he completed courses for entrepreneurs at the Harvard Business School (Owner/President Management Program courses).
Until 2001, he worked at the international consulting company Accenture, where he was engaged in consulting in the field of information technologies. Sergey Shilov is an expert in strategic consulting, project management methodology, as well as in the financial and telecommunications industries.
2018
Detention in a criminal case on the creation of an IT system in the Ministry of Internal Affairs
As part of a criminal case on abuse during the installation of a unified intelligent system for supporting activities (ISOD) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the key defendant in which is the former head of NPO Special Equipment and Communications Andrey Nechaev, FSB officers detained the founder of AT Consulting Sergey Shilov. This was reported on March 1, 2018 by the Kommersant newspaper, citing its sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The investigation suspects that Shilov persuaded Andrey Nechaev, the customer of ISOD from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to pay for work in progress worth 1.4 billion rubles.
A Kommersant source close to the investigation claims that since the fall of 2017, when a criminal case was initiated on abuse of power with grave consequences (part 3 of article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) when creating the ISOD, the author and designer of this system, Sergei Shilov, has been under investigation there were no questions. He was not even a witness in a criminal case. Formally, ISOD designed and assembled NIIAA, so its leaders were the first witnesses in the criminal case, the publication explains.
However, during the investigation, it turned out that NIIAA transferred the order in full to Sergey Shilov's AT Consulting and left only the role of an intermediary for their institute. As a result, in February 2018, Shilov was summoned for questioning as a witness.
Citing representatives of AT Consulting, the newspaper reports that Shilov admitted that he was the main developer, installer and adjuster of the system. During the interrogation, he did not hide his old ties with the customer of the ISOD Andrei Nechaev. Both of them, before moving to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, worked in a rather narrow field of IT, and Nechaev even worked on the staff of AT Consulting for some time.
On February 28, according to Kommersant, the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation charged Sergei Shilov with complicity in the abuse of office (Article 33 and Part 3 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This was preceded by searches of Shilov's house. After them, he was detained and taken to a pre-trial detention center.
According to investigators, the founder of AT Consulting incited Andrey Nechaev to quickly pay him off for the unfinished re-equipment of the police with modern means of communication and information security. On March 1, the investigation plans to achieve the arrest of Sergei Shilov in the Basmanny District Court, the newspaper reports.
AT Consulting told TAdviser that their company conscientiously fulfills all contractual obligations to its customers and always openly cooperates with regulatory and investigative authorities.
In December, 2017 TAdviser wrote that in capital offices of AT Consulting on Bolshaya Novodmitrovskaya and 2nd Khutorskaya streets investigative actions took place. Sources of TAdviser then connected these searches with criminal case about ISOD.
The state contract for the unification of ready-made territorial and departmental networks into a single system - ISOD - worth 1.4 billion rubles was concluded in the fall of 2014. At the end of December 2014, this work was completed, accepted by the special commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Andrei Nechaev paid off the general contractor, NIIAA. Only three years later, FSB officers showed interest in him: on October 17, 2017, he was detained at the opening of the Interpolitech-2017 exhibition. He was taken into custody and is still under arrest. Read more about Nechaev's arrest and the criminal case.
Sergei Shilov refused to be released on bail of 20 million rubles and sent to a pre-trial detention center
On March 1, 2018, the day after the arrest of AT Consulting founder Sergei Shilov, the Investigative Committee secured his arrest and placement in a pre-trial detention center for two months, the Kommersant newspaper reported. The petition of the investigation for the arrest of Shilov was considered in the Basmanny Court of Moscow.
Sergei Shilov and his defense offered the court the option of releasing him on bail in the amount of 20 million rubles, but the court decision in the end turned out to be not in their favor.
The investigation believes that, remaining at large, Shilov can put pressure on his subordinates, many of whom are witnesses in the case, or hide AT Consulting documentation that is of interest to the investigation. The investigator in court argued that there had already been a precedent: during earlier searches in the company, its head allegedly gave someone the command to turn off the server.
Another argument of the investigation in favor of the arrest is that the founder of AT Consulting has real estate abroad and a valid passport. Remaining at large, he can escape, the Investigative Committee believes. The investigator's argument was also the alleged "connections of the accused in the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs", which he allegedly managed to acquire during his cooperation with this department.
The investigator also noted that Sergei Shilov should not be left even under house arrest, since the accused, being a highly qualified IT specialist, will definitely find a way to circumvent injunctions and get in touch with his alleged accomplices through secret communication channels, Kommersant writes.
The defendant's lawyers in court consistently refuted all the above suspicions and called all the arguments of the investigation "spells", devoid of any documentary evidence. In their opinion, the author of the petition insists on taking the accused into custody only because it is easier to carry out “operational work” with the prisoner and exert moral pressure on him.
According to Dmitry Potapov, senior partner at AT Consulting, who has known Shilov for about 15 years, the situation looks ridiculous when, on the same day as the president’s message to the Federal Assembly, where the country’s digitalization is indicated as one of the key tasks, a decision is made to arrest Sergey Shilov under clearly far-fetched prepositions.
Confession of guilt and remorse
On March 24, 2018, the Kommersant newspaper reported that during the three weeks spent under arrest, Sergei Shilov pleaded guilty, repented, and even began to pay back the billions in damage allegedly caused to him during the design and installation of a closed communication system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (see more details above). According to Kommersant's sources, the accused is discussing with the investigation the terms of a pre-trial cooperation agreement, under which he plans to leave the pre-trial detention center under house arrest. The investigation, in turn, is waiting for him to testify against alleged accomplices from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Kommersant's interlocutor close to the investigation claims that Sergei Shilov's active repentance took place under rather curious circumstances. During the next interrogation taking place in the pre-trial detention center in the presence of three lawyers, the investigator suddenly announced that the accused urgently needed medical assistance. Such concern for the health of the accused, unusual for law enforcement officers, surprised the defense lawyers, especially considering that their client did not look sick at all. Nevertheless, the interrogation was interrupted, and after returning from the “medical examination” a few minutes later, Mr. Shilov thanked his defense lawyers for their work and introduced them to his new lawyer, Alexander Zheleznikov.
According to another Kommersant source, this decision of the defendant matured from the first day of his placement in the pre-trial detention center, which took place by decision of the Basmanny Court on March 1. Even then, Shilov made it clear to his defenders that he would go to all the conditions of the investigation in order to get out of the detention center, at least under house arrest. However, the expected deal between the accused and the Prosecutor General's Office, according to Kommersant's interlocutors, has not yet been concluded. The fact is that Shilov's confession and repentance alone is not enough for moving from a cell to an apartment. Nevertheless, preparations for the deal are in full swing. So, for example, the accused told the investigator that he had already begun to pay off the damage allegedly caused to him by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Prior to his arrest, Sergey Shilov, in the status of a witness, tried to convince the investigation that the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had been carried out by his company impeccably, but on March 1 he was placed in a pre-trial detention center on charges of inciting (Article 33 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) Andrey Nechaev to abuse. At the process of choosing a preventive measure in the Basmanny Court, Shilov’s lawyers argued that the investigation needed his arrest only in order to get him to confess his guilt and testify against Andrei Nechaev, who, according to the TFR, paid off the contract, having received an impressive “ rollback".
AT Consulting noted that their company did not conclude a contract with the Ministry of Internal Affairs for 1.4 billion rubles for the creation of ISOD, but was only one of the many co-executors in cooperation headed by the V.S. Semenikhin.
Confrontation with Alexei Nashchekin
On April 10, employees of the Main Investigative Directorate of the ICR, who are dealing with the case of fraud in the creation of the ISOD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, came to the apartment of the general director of the National Telematic Systems company, Alexei Nashchekin, on Michurinsky Prospekt. By that time, Nashchekin had already been a witness in this criminal case for several months, and claims against him, apparently, arose after the operatives of the FSB of the Russian Federation found out that he was going to fly to Belarus early on Wednesday morning.
| At the same time, according to a Kommersant source close to the investigation, the air ticket to Minsk was only a pretext for detention. The reason was the results of the interrogation of the co-owner of AT Consulting Sergei Shilov, arrested a month and a half ago, who is ready to conclude a pre-trial agreement with the Prosecutor General's Office. Within its framework, Mr. Shilov, who, according to the investigation, participated in the financial fraud of the customer of the ISOD Andrei Nechaev, said that the main accused had another "assistant" - the general director of NTS Alexei Nashchekin. He allegedly "transferred information" from Andrey Nechaev to the main executor of the project, Shilov |
According to Kommersant, after a four-hour interrogation on the night of April 11, Nashchekin was confronted with Sergei Shilov. During it, the detained Nashchekin insisted that he was not involved in the scam; the arrested Shilov claimed that he used his intermediary services. The investigator eventually believed Shilov and immediately after the bet charged Aleksey Nashchekin. According to the investigation, he, like Sergey Shilov, aided (Part 5, Article 33 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) Andrey Nechaev in committing abuse of power with grave consequences (Part 3, Article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The TFR believes that the entrepreneurs persuaded Andrey Nechaev, the chief designer of the ISOD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to pay for the incomplete work on the ISOD. Perhaps the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not disinterestedly meet the merchants halfway.
Nashchekin's lawyer Sergey Grivtsov considers the request of the TFR for arrest, like the entire criminal case, not "defending state interests", but "inquisitorial". According to him, the protocol of the confrontation consists of eight sheets, and on the first four Shilov stated his position, and on the rest he frankly "floated", not being able to answer the clarifying questions of Nashchekin and his defense counsel.
Release from jail
On April 20, Sergei Shilov was released from the pre-trial detention center: the Basmanny Court of Moscow changed his measure of restraint from detention to house arrest. TAdviser was told about it in the company and Shilov's lawyer Alexander Zheleznikov confirmed.
According to Zheleznikov, the period of house arrest has not yet been determined, it should become known after another court session, which will take place later.
The request to change the preventive measure was filed when the deadline for extending Shilov's detention came up. Usually it is two months. During this time, the defense of Sergei Shilov prepared arguments for the court session in order to convince the investigation and the court to release the client from the pre-trial detention center.
Alexander Zheleznikov told TAdviser that, trying to convince the court, he pointed to the facts that Sergey Shilov has young children, that he lives in Moscow and was not previously convicted.
According to the Kommersant newspaper, the process in court for a measure of restraint was short. Investigator Sergei Khudyk made a speech at it, who a month and a half ago achieved the arrest of Sergei Shilov here. This time, a representative of the Main Investigative Committee of the ICR explained to the court that Shilov had concluded a pre-trial agreement with the Prosecutor General's Office. As part of this deal, the businessman, according to the investigator, repented, "given truthful testimony in which he exposed other participants in the abuse," and confirmed his words at face-to-face confrontations with them. Thus, the need for further detention of the accused in a pre-trial detention center, according to Khudyk, has disappeared.
At the same time, the representative of the ICR explained that he could not release the person involved in the case on bail not to leave, fearing the escape of Shilov, who “has a passport and real estate abroad.” Therefore, he considers the transfer of the defendant under house arrest in his apartment on Malaya Pirogovskaya Street to be the most reasonable option, which he petitions the court for. Representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office and the protection of the businessman agreed with the author of the petition.
Minor disagreements arose between the parties only about the conditions of house arrest. Investigator Khudyk asked the court to prohibit Sergei Shilov from leaving the apartment on Pirogovka without his written permission, to use the phone and instant messengers to communicate with the outside world, and to contact journalists. In his opinion, without the sanction of the ICR, the accused could take two-hour morning walks, and call only his investigator, doctors or operational services in case of emergency. Lawyer Alexander Zheleznikov, in turn, asked the chairman of the Basmanny Court to include himself in the list of allowed subscribers, and to allow his client to walk for four hours a day instead of two.
The judge, after conferring for about ten minutes, made a decision that suited everyone: she allowed Shilov to call his lawyer freely, leaving the regime of walks proposed by the investigator in force.
Criminal proceedings
In August 2018, a criminal case was opened against Sergei Shilov under Part 5 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (giving a bribe). This is indicated in the appeal ruling of the Moscow City Court, published in the database of Moscow courts in October. The decision was issued after another attempt by the defense of Alexei Nashchekin, who is with him in the case, to appeal against the extension of house arrest. Read more.
The investigation no longer has claims against Sergei Shilov
Investigation of a criminal case on abuse of office during the creation of an intellectual system for supporting activities (ISOD) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and which resulted in a loss of 1.4 billion rubles for the department. The Investigative Committee of Russia completed at the end of March. Its key person involved is the former head of NPO "Special Equipment and Communications" - the customer of ISOD - Andrey Nechaev.
According to the Kommersant newspaper, it was assumed that the trial would reveal the corrupt ties of entrepreneurs in the ministry, but Nechaev was not accused of corruption. According to investigators, he accepted and paid for work in progress, as he wanted to quickly report to his management on the completion of a responsible task and thus ensure his career growth and her role. Read more here.
Management approach
Sergey Shilov considers himself an authoritarian leader, because he is sure that "it is not easy to convince people to work day and night and produce impossible results. In fact, successful people management is possible when you manage to find a common motivation for everyone. We do not force our employees to do the impossible, we We offer interesting things.
In an interview with the NBJ, he stated that he considers himself not a businessman, but an entrepreneur who knows how to take risks, but counts on success. In relations with partners, he prefers to be guided not by emotions, but by a balanced calculation: "No, I'm not a philosopher. Revenge, from my point of view, is a very costly business. There is simply no time for this. Life is too short to waste time planning some kind of response aggressive action. I prefer to live in the future rather than in the past."
03/01/2018, Thu, 15:06, Moscow time , Text: Valeria Shmyrova
The head of AT Consulting, Sergei Shilov, was detained on suspicion of complicity with the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Andrei Nechaev, who ordered Shilov a unified information system for the ministry. According to investigators, Shilov handed over the system in an unfinished form, and Nechaev paid for it as finished. The amount of the contract was 1.4 billion rubles.
Detention of Shilov
Founder and Managing Partner Russian company AT Consulting Sergey Shilov was detained Federal Service security (FSB) in connection with his involvement in the creation of a "defective" unified intellectual system for ensuring activities (ISOD) for the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
As the investigation established, it was Shilov who designed and assembled the ISOD, after which he handed it over to the customer in an unfinished form, but at the same time persuaded the customer's representative Andrey Nechaev pay for the work as completed. Recall that the value of the contract was 1.4 billion rubles. This is exactly the amount now in the court order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs from Nechaev, who was also previously detained by the FSB.
Initially, neither Shilov nor AT Consulting appeared in the case of abuse when working on ISOD - despite the fact that Shilov is the actual creator of the system, Kommersant reports, citing a source close to the investigation. All claims regarding the quality of the work performed were submitted to the general contractor of the project - JSC "Scientific Research Institute of Automatic Equipment named after Academician V.S. Semenikhin".
But the leaders of the research institutes explained that in practice the institute had nothing to do with the creation of the ISOD, since the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was immediately transferred for execution to the subcontractor AT Consulting. Thus, Shilov was brought to testify in the case.
Shilov's testimony
Shilov acknowledged that it was he who was actually involved in the creation of ISOD, and also confirmed that this was not his first experience of working with Nechaev, since Nechaev was once an employee of AT Consulting. The investigation concluded that during the acceptance of the ISOD, Shilov encouraged his colleague Nechaev to pay for the work in progress to create the system as completed.
Sergey Shilov, founder and managing partner of AT Consulting
This was followed by a search of Shilov's home and his detention on the basis of Article 33 and Part 3 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code of Russia - on suspicion of complicity in the abuse of power. The second of the mentioned sections proposes punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to ten years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for up to three years.
Shilov's representatives focus on the fact that ISOD was commissioned in December 2014 and successfully launched in January 2015, and any claims against its creators arose only three years later. In their opinion, this indicates that the system was in a ready state at the time of acceptance.
selfish motive
Also, Shilov's friends express the opinion that the investigation is trying to prove the existence of corruption schemes in the case, according to which Nechaev could receive some personal benefits from Shilov in exchange for accepting and paying for an unfinished system. Until this is proven, the investigation remains with the working version that Nechaev accepted the defective ISOD, wanting to complete the project on time and appear in a favorable light before the leadership.
Investigators have previously looked for a mercenary motive in the case - in particular, they assumed that Nechaev was paid some amounts through his wife. However, it was later established that Nechaev's wife was a qualified programmer and received remuneration for the work she performed.
How ISOD was built
Nechaev himself does not come from the ranks of the police, he is an IT specialist who successfully built an information and communication network for the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate in the 2000s, and was subsequently involved in the creation of ISOD for the entire Ministry of Internal Affairs. As the head of the NPO “Special Equipment and Communications” subordinate to the ministry, he was responsible for installation, debugging and software for ISOD, had the right to independently contract specialists, accept work from them and make calculations.
Contract with the contractor JSC "Scientific Research Institute of Automatic Equipment named after academician V.S. Semenikhin" worth 1.4 billion rubles. Nechaev signed in the fall of 2014. According to the terms of the contract, the contractor had to combine the territorial subsystems of ISOD, the creation of which lasted two years, into the final single system. The work was accepted in December 2014, and payment was made at the same time. Launched in January 2015, ISOD is now gaining popularity among employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the regions.
Purpose of ISOD
ISOD is a set of information services designed for police departments specializing in various tasks. Also, through the system, it is possible to carry out the circulation of documents within the Ministry of Internal Affairs, conduct video conferences on a federal scale, transfer data to the regions and provide public services to citizens. Users of the system note that with its introduction, data transfer began to take significantly less time, and the issuance of certificates and copies of documents to the population has also accelerated.
In a state of unavailability for work, Nechaev allegedly accepted the following components from the contractor: the Pathfinder M online system for checking suspects online, intended for operatives of the criminal investigation department, the Bridge closed communication server, through which the Ministry of Internal Affairs intended to transmit statistics to the prosecutor's office, and the base data "Modernization of IBD".
What does AT Consulting do?
AT Consulting was founded in 2001 by Sergey Shilov. Key areas of activity - implementation and service support of complex information systems, management and operational business consulting, custom software development and IT outsourcing. More than 2.5 thousand IT consultants are employed in 17 offices in four countries of the world.
AT Consulting began working with the public sector in 2010, having formed the "electronic government" block. Rosreestr became its first client in this field, and after a while the company became known as one of the key contractors of Rostelecom in projects related to the e-government infrastructure (the operator is the sole contractor of the Ministry of Communications for its development and operation). An analysis of AT Consulting contracts shows that in addition to RT Labs and Rostelecom, Sberbank was the main customer for the company. Much less often, AT Consulting received orders from the Ministry of Communications, Rosreestr, Leta Bank, VTB Bank.
12/18/2018, Tue, 18:05, Msk , Text: Taras Podrez
CNews has learned the interim results of the most notorious IT arrest of the year: after a deal with the investigation, the owner of the company Sergey Shilov was released from house arrest on bail. Nevertheless, the criminal case caused significant damage to his business, which is significantly dependent on government contracts: AT Consulting's revenues from the public sector in 2018 fell significantly
"Successfully working for the benefit of the company"
Arrested in February 2018, the owner of AT Consulting Sergey Shilov released from house arrest on bail. This was reported to CNews by a source familiar with the course of the criminal case on the theft of IT systems of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The fact that Sergei Shilov was released from house arrest was not denied at AT Consulting either: “Sergey Shilov continues to work at AT Consulting, he is successfully working for the benefit of the company and the IT industry as a whole. We do not comment on everything related to the investigation of law enforcement agencies,” the marketing director of the company told CNews Victoria Plotinskaya.
Sergei Shilov is accused in the case of giving a bribe, the criminal cases of Nechaev, Shilov and Nashchekin are combined into one proceeding. Nechaev and Nashchekin remain under house arrest.
How did the criminal case affect friendship with government agencies
CNews noted that the investigation that affected AT Consulting had an extremely negative impact on the company's commercial performance.
Sergey Shilov, owner of AT Consulting
Shilov owns the parent structure of AT Consulting - AT Group JSC. According to the latest data from the Spark database, he owns half of the company, his partner owns the other Dmitry Potapov. Shilov himself told Vedomosti in 2017 that he was the majority owner of the company. The JSC has four operating subsidiaries, LLC: Eity Consulting, Eity Service (these two are the main ones), as well as Eity Siberia and MIT-Center.
The annual total revenue of these companies until 2017 inclusive amounted to about 10-15 billion rubles. However, in 2018, the amount of government contracts they received sharply - at times - decreased. If in 2015 their revenue amounted to 6.2 billion rubles, in 2016 - 4.7 billion rubles, in 2017 - 4.4 billion rubles, then in 2018 only 0.8 billion rubles It should be noted that 2018 is not over yet, but the negative dynamics are clearly visible. The main customers of AT Consulting remained the same: among them the Ministry of Internal Affairs, VTB, Sberbank, Rostelecom, but the amount of their contracts decreased. Some did not enter into new agreements with AT Consulting, such as Rosselkhozbank.
If cooperation with the investigation for Shilov ends with a suspended sentence, then the conviction in this case will be expunged after the expiration of the simultaneously appointed probationary period which may be shorter than the term of probation. In IT tenders of government agencies, the absence of a criminal record among the management of applicant firms can often be found among the criteria for selecting contractors. However, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Shilov has not formally headed any of the structures listed above for a long time: he left the official positions of CEO in AT Group JSC, AT Consulting LLC, AT Service LLC back in 2016-2017. - then the investigation into the criminal case in the Ministry of Internal Affairs was just beginning.
The case of the IT system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
The investigation into the case of abuses in the IT system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs began in 2017, and Shilov remained a witness in it for a long time. February 28, 2018 on suspicion of complicity with the head of the NGO "Special Equipment and Communications" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Andrey Nechaev, who ordered a unified information system for the ministry from AT Consulting Shilov. Nechaev was arrested back in October 2017. According to the investigation, Sergei Shilov designed and assembled the ISOD and delivered it unfinished in 2014, but persuaded Nechaev to pay for the work (1.4 billion rubles) “for a kickback”.
Shilov confessed and confirmed that Nechaev previously worked at AT Consulting, and that Nechaev received two large bribes from him to accept ISOD, Kommersant wrote. In addition, it was reported that Shilov told the security forces about an intermediary in communication with Nechaev, a former top manager of Rostelecom and co-owner of the National Telematic Systems company (participated in the development of the Platon system and the Unified State Real Estate Register).
What does AT Consulting do?
AT Consulting was founded in 2001 by Sergey Shilov. Key areas of activity are the implementation and service support of complex information systems, management and operational business consulting, custom software development and IT outsourcing. More than 2,000 IT consultants are employed in 17 offices in four countries around the world.
AT Consulting began working with the public sector in 2010, having formed the "electronic government" block. Rosreestr became its first client in this field, and after a while the company became known as one of the key contractors of Rostelecom in projects related to the e-government infrastructure (the operator is the sole contractor of the Ministry of Communications for its development and operation). An analysis of AT Consulting contracts shows that in addition to RT Labs and Rostelecom, Sberbank was the main customer for the company. Much less often AT Consulting received orders from the Ministry of Communications, Rosreestr, Summer Bank, VTB.
In the rating "" AT Consulting took 24th place with an annual revenue of 11.876 billion rubles. In 2015, in the same rating, the company ranked 21st with a revenue of 12.292 billion rubles. In 2017, AT Consulting was not included in the rating of 100 largest IT companies in Russia.
03/09/2017, Thu, 16:11, Moscow time , Text: Denis Voeikov
AT Consulting has completed parting ways with its founder Sergey Shilov. The new owner of the structure, Levan Vasadze, told his employees that Shilov had left the company.
FounderleavesAT Consulting
As it became known to CNews, the founder and former CEO of the Russian integrator AT Consulting Sergey Shilov finally parted ways with his company. At the disposal of the editors was an internal letter from the new owner of the organization Levan Vasadze , addressed to employees, in which he informs that "after the transition period, Sergey Shilov is leaving our company."
In November 2016, CNews learned that entrepreneur Vasadze through his investment fund Prometheus Capital Partners 95% AT Consulting. Then it became clear that Sergey Shilov almost completely parted with his share in the company and lost his chair of the general director.
In his recent appeal to subordinates, Vasadze is extremely correct and expresses gratitude to Shilov. “We have big plans for business development,” he says. - From one of the leading companies in the field of IT services in Russia, we intend to become simply the number one company. To do this, in addition to the existing portfolio of clients, we will add new ones.”
The founder of AT Consulting Sergey Shilov finally left the company.
Vasadze explains that in the traditional industries for the company, where it has a strong position, it will increase the portfolio of projects and carry out horizontal expansion. “At the same time, we have identified new industries for ourselves: fuel and energy complex, transport and logistics and agriculture,” he explains. - In the public sector, we expect a lot of new projects in ministries, government agencies and territorial entities. Also, we will continue to develop our centers of competence in the field of e-government, a safe and smart city.”
Representative of AT Consulting Alexandra Winter CNews reported. that Vasadze himself has now been appointed to replace Shilov. “The transfer of cases has been completed as planned,” she added. “Shilov remains a minority shareholder of the company.”
Sergei Shilov himself, when preparing this material, was unavailable for questions from CNews.
Legal aspects
Note that several legal entities are associated with the described company. And, for example, as the analysis of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities shows, on February 9, 2017, Vasadze became the official CEO of AT Group JSC, but Sergey Shilov and Dmitry Potapov, who was previously announced as acting CEO of AT Consulting, officially remain co-owners of this structure.
Earlier, the Prometheus message indicated that the purchase of AT Consulting occurred through the acquisition of the organization Project Investments CJSC, which at that moment owned 95% of the company.
Plans for entering international markets
In the near future, I expect the company to enter international markets, - Levan Vasadze writes to his employees. - Our international expansion will be concrete and precedent. I do not rule out that new foreign projects may be associated with the possible attraction of foreign investors.”
A few facts about AT Consulting
AT Consulting was founded in 2001 by Sergey Shilov. Key areas of activity are the implementation and service support of complex information systems, management and operational business consulting, custom software development and IT outsourcing. More than 2.5 thousand IT consultants are employed in 17 offices in four countries of the world.
AT Consulting began working with the public sector in 2010, having formed the "electronic government" block. Rosreestr became its first client in this field, and after a while the company became known as one of the key contractors of Rostelecom in projects related to the e-government infrastructure (the operator is the only executor of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications for its development and operation).
According to CNews, several years ago, by agreement of the parties from AT Consulting, employees en masse (tens of people) moved to RT Labs, a subsidiary of Rostelecom.
Analysis of AT Consulting contracts shows that for Lately in addition to RT Labs and Rostelecom, Sberbank was the main customer for the company. Much less often, AT Consulting received orders from the Ministry of Communications, Rosreestr, Leta Bank, VTB Bank.