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TASS learns about extension of term for head of supercomputer developer
The court increased the sentence of T-Platform founder Opanasenko to five years. He has been under arrest on charges of fraud in the supply of systems to the Ministry of Internal Affairs since 2019, and the court sentenced Opanasenko to two years and four months in prison, taking into account the time served.
The Moscow City Court, having considered the appeal, decided to toughen the sentence of the founder of the company "T-Platforms" Vsevolod Opanasenko to five years in a general regime penal colony, law enforcement agencies told TASS. The court hearing took place on October 14 in the Meshchansky District Court, according to the materials of the Moscow City Court.
Opanasenko was sentenced to two years and four months in a general regime penal colony in May last year in a case of large-scale fraud related to the supply of computer equipment to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Due to the expiration of the sentence (the case was opened in 2019, when Opanasenko was detained and arrested), the sentence was considered to have been carried out.
The department reported that the businessman had been taken into custody. Alexander Khurudzhi, a human rights activist and public ombudsman for arrested entrepreneurs, confirmed that Opanasenko had been detained. He said: "We don't know yet exactly what this incident is."
The lawsuit against Opanasenko was filed over a contract for the supply of special equipment (automated workstations equipped with Russian Baikal-T1 processors) for the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was accused of inciting abuse of power. According to investigators, the businessman decided to take advantage of the contract and persuaded the former head of the Department of Information Technology, Communications and Information Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Alexandrov. To help him. Alexandrov was also sentenced to two years and four months in prison in 2023.
According to the prosecutor's office, T-Platforms transferred equipment to the customer that did not meet the technical requirements of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The contract cost more than 350 million rubles. - Classified as damaged. The third defendant in the case, the head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Voronezh University Oksana Bokova, was accused of fictitious work at the Alexandrov Institute. The court fined her 200 thousand rubles.
None of the defendants pleaded guilty. All defendants are listed in the case file.
T-Platforms was founded in 2002. Opanasenko owned 75%, and the state controlled 25%. The company supplies solutions and services for high-performance computing and released the Tavolga Terminal 2VT1 computer based on the Russian Baikal-T1 processor. In 2018, its supercomputer took the first four places in the ranking of the most powerful computing systems in Russia and the CIS. Among such machines is Lomonosov-2, installed at Moscow State University. In September 2022, T-Platforms and Opanasenko were declared bankrupt.