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Capture, Blat and Organized Crime Group: Lazarev Jr. Indicted
Both defendants were accused of participating in the organized crime group of Gennady Lazarev, Innokenty's father, an honorary citizen of Vladivostok and former rector of VSUES. According to investigators, he apparently created a criminal group in the 1990s with the aim of seizing state property.
According to investigators, from 1996 to 2024, the suspects seized 16 objects belonging to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. In Vladivostok, three houses on Zemelnaya and 10th Streets, as well as 10 houses on Gogolya, Derzhavin and Komarov Streets, as well as on Ozernaya Street in Nakhodka.
The Investigative Department for Primorye established that various property was transferred to the university for use and fictitious transactions were concluded, creating a debt of VSUES to organizations associated with the rector of the university. These companies received real estate, and educational institutions entered into lease agreements with them.
In addition, according to RBC, the university itself had a whole scheme to extort money from students with the direct participation of the suspects. Therefore, students sign a contract for the provision of additional educational services to help the university pay for their education. All the money went into the pockets of criminal organizations.
In addition, students can “solve” their debt problem by contacting a specific VSUES employee and depositing a certain amount of money.