Marina Rakova, the main person involved in the criminal case of embezzlement of budgetary funds in the Ministry of Education, surrendered to the police. This happened after the police detained her common-law husband Artur Stetsenko, who helped her to hide, and before that, the investigation is sure, also participated in the theft of money allocated for the Education national project. After interrogation, at which the former deputy minister and vice-president of Sberbank, suspected of organizing the scheme of embezzlement of 50 million rubles, did not admit her guilt, she was sent to a temporary detention facility, and her roommate was sent to a pre-trial detention center.
A week after escaping from her mansion near Moscow, Marina Rakova with a lawyer arrived at the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow on Novoslobodskaya Street, where she voluntarily surrendered to the guards.
The officers on duty, according to Kommersant’s sources, were surprised by the appearance of this pair.
But later, an investigator in the case came to work, identified Ms Rakova and interrogated the former Deputy Minister of Education as a suspect in embezzling funds allocated for the Education national project.
Let us remind you that on the morning of September 30, Marina Rakova did not come for interrogation and, having switched off the phone, disappeared. In her mansion in Nemchinovka near Moscow, where investigators and operatives had worked all day the day before, traces of emergency fees were found. Realizing that the suspect in organizing the embezzlement of budget funds had disappeared, the investigator of the State Investigation Department initiated the announcement of Mrs. Rakova on the federal wanted list. The police officers accompanying the investigation were sure that Mrs. Rakova was being helped by her common-law husband, Artur Stetsenko, to hide. However, during interrogation, Mr. Stetsenko assured the investigators that he had nothing to do with the escape of his partner and even issued a corresponding open letter to the media.
In it, Mr. Stetsenko claimed that he was at home with the children, not knowing “where Marina is,” and complained about the far-fetched accusations and the political bias of the ongoing investigation. Investigators did not believe Mr. Stetsenko, having detained him in the same case, in which Marina Rakova is also involved.
Artur Stetsenko is the former general director of the Fund for New Forms of Education Development, through which, according to the investigation, the money allocated for the national project was stolen. Marina Rakova, being the Deputy Minister of Education, oversaw the fund and the allocation of funds to it.
The tactics of the operational-investigative group brought results: the very next day after the arrest of her roommate, Mrs. Rakova came to the investigator.
During her interrogation, Sberbank officially announced the dismissal of Marina Rakova from the post of vice president. According to the bank, this was done on October 4.
His guilt in organizing the theft of 50 million rubles. Mrs. Rakova did not admit it. At night she was sent to the IVS at Petrovka, 38.
According to Kommersant’s information, the investigation suggested that the former deputy minister and vice-president of Sberbank think and confess, having drawn up a pre-trial cooperation agreement.
While she is in the status of a suspect. But if the parties do not agree, on Thursday Mrs. Rakova may appear before the Tverskoy District Court, which will choose a measure of restraint for her.
Meanwhile, 51-year-old Stetsenko was arrested by the same court until December 5. He became the fifth person involved in this investigation.
Recall that earlier, at the request of the State Investigation Department, the court arrested ex-subordinates of Mrs. Rakova – the managing directors of the Digital Education Platforms division of Sberbank Maxim Inkin and Yevgeny Zak, who were previously heads of the Fund for New Forms of Education Development, as well as Kristina Kryuchkova, executive director of the Moscow Higher schools of social and economic sciences. It is also worth noting that in addition to embezzlement of budgetary funds that the fund supervised by Ms. Rakova disposed of, the investigation is checking the defendants for involvement in the fictitious employment of its employees in one of the Moscow universities.
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