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Nikolai Evdokimov, according to investigators, caused damage to the FSS for hundreds of millions of rubles.
According to Kommersant, one of the main IT specialists of the Social Insurance Fund (FSS) of Russia, Nikolai Evdokimov, who participated in the development and creation of a unified integrated information system (EIIS) Sotsstrakh, will spend seven years in a colony. The investigation claims that after being fired from the fund, the programmer registered the rights to 46 NIIS subsystems for his organization, which, in their opinion, led to hundreds of millions of rubles in damage to the FSS. Nikolai Evdokimov refuses to admit his guilt, and his defense argues that the rights to the results of intellectual activity cannot be the subject of theft.
The trial in the case of 55-year-old Nikolai Evdokimov, accused of especially large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), was considered in the Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow since the end of the previous year.
For six years since February 2003, Nikolai Evdokimov has held senior positions in the FSS. His career began as Deputy Head of the Software Division of the Information Support Department and ended as Deputy Head of the Information Technology Operations and Maintenance Department.
At the same time, before joining the FSS and after his dismissal, Evdokimov was the general director of Open Information Technologies LLC (later Nist), the Sotsstrakh UIIS developer organization. One of the key areas of work for the IT specialist was the installation, maintenance and maintenance of public programs and EIIS subsystems in the FSS.
According to some reports, having access to the source codes of Sotsstrakh and being a programmer by profession, he could make any changes to the system that were almost impossible for other employees of the fund to detect.
In 2014, Evdokimov registered exclusive rights to the programs of the EIIS subsystem on Nist. According to experts, the damage from this action ranged from 213 to 310 million rubles. The FSS filed a civil claim against Evdokimov for damages demanding the arrest of all programs registered for his company and the invalidation of state registration of computer programs - 46 subsystems of the UIIS Sotsstrakh.
Evdokimov remained at his position during the investigation and trial - he did not admit his guilt. Nevertheless, the court decided that participation in fraud was confirmed by the evidence provided, and sentenced him to seven years in prison, and also imposed a fine of 500 thousand rubles. He was also banned for two years from holding positions related to organizational and administrative functions. Evdokimov was arrested right in the courtroom and taken into custody in a pre-trial detention center.
Lawyer Maria Zazirnaya, representing the interests of Evdokimov, considers "the verdict contrary to the law and common sense." She points to the fact that the FSS of the Russian Federation for nine years has been managing the exclusive rights it does not have for programs included in the UIIS Sotsstrakh by concluding license agreements with contractors under government contracts for the modernization of the UIIS. “That is, he commits multibillion-dollar unjustified spending of budget funds,” Zazirnaya emphasized. She also recalled that back in 2018, the same Dorogomilovsky court decided to return the criminal case to the prosecutor, including due to the lack of a description in the charge of what was stolen from the victim and how. At the same time, a reference was used to the decision of the arbitration court of 2014 that the FSS of the Russian Federation is the copyright holder of the programs,
Nikolai Evdokimov is not the first high-ranking employee of the FSS of the Russian Federation who was prosecuted for embezzling rights to the fund's programs. As is known from the Kommersant publication, Sergey Kovalevsky, a former adviser to the head of the FSS of the Russian Federation and then deputy chairman, who was responsible for informatization of the department and supervision of the activities of Nikolai Evdokimov, was also accused of abuse of power and attempted fraud (Articles 285 and 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The accusations against Kovalevsky appeared in 2013, and since then a legal dispute between the Foundation and Kovalevsky has begun. As a result, the FSS won the dispute in arbitration in 2014-2015. The disputes were related to the digitalization of the fund and the creation of the Sotsstrakh system. Kovalevsky in 2005 received the rights to use the system, but at the same time concealed from the FSS and from Rospatent, that the algorithm of the system was patented back in 1991. According to the FSB investigation, Kovalevsky managed to get about 3.7 billion rubles of budget funds, and after his dismissal, he tried, but unsuccessfully, to get another 1.7 billion. Kovalevsky pleaded guilty to abuse, and the case was dismissed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. He did not hear the court's decision on the second charge, as he died suddenly this spring.
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According to Kommersant, one of the main IT specialists of the Social Insurance Fund (FSS) of Russia, Nikolai Evdokimov, who participated in the development and creation of a unified integrated information system (EIIS) Sotsstrakh, will spend seven years in a colony. The investigation claims that after being fired from the fund, the programmer registered the rights to 46 NIIS subsystems for his organization, which, in their opinion, led to hundreds of millions of rubles in damage to the FSS. Nikolai Evdokimov refuses to admit his guilt, and his defense argues that the rights to the results of intellectual activity cannot be the subject of theft.
The trial in the case of 55-year-old Nikolai Evdokimov, accused of especially large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), was considered in the Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow since the end of the previous year.
For six years since February 2003, Nikolai Evdokimov has held senior positions in the FSS. His career began as Deputy Head of the Software Division of the Information Support Department and ended as Deputy Head of the Information Technology Operations and Maintenance Department.
At the same time, before joining the FSS and after his dismissal, Evdokimov was the general director of Open Information Technologies LLC (later Nist), the Sotsstrakh UIIS developer organization. One of the key areas of work for the IT specialist was the installation, maintenance and maintenance of public programs and EIIS subsystems in the FSS.
According to some reports, having access to the source codes of Sotsstrakh and being a programmer by profession, he could make any changes to the system that were almost impossible for other employees of the fund to detect.
In 2014, Evdokimov registered exclusive rights to the programs of the EIIS subsystem on Nist. According to experts, the damage from this action ranged from 213 to 310 million rubles. The FSS filed a civil claim against Evdokimov for damages demanding the arrest of all programs registered for his company and the invalidation of state registration of computer programs - 46 subsystems of the UIIS Sotsstrakh.
Evdokimov remained at his position during the investigation and trial - he did not admit his guilt. Nevertheless, the court decided that participation in fraud was confirmed by the evidence provided, and sentenced him to seven years in prison, and also imposed a fine of 500 thousand rubles. He was also banned for two years from holding positions related to organizational and administrative functions. Evdokimov was arrested right in the courtroom and taken into custody in a pre-trial detention center.
Lawyer Maria Zazirnaya, representing the interests of Evdokimov, considers "the verdict contrary to the law and common sense." She points to the fact that the FSS of the Russian Federation for nine years has been managing the exclusive rights it does not have for programs included in the UIIS Sotsstrakh by concluding license agreements with contractors under government contracts for the modernization of the UIIS. “That is, he commits multibillion-dollar unjustified spending of budget funds,” Zazirnaya emphasized. She also recalled that back in 2018, the same Dorogomilovsky court decided to return the criminal case to the prosecutor, including due to the lack of a description in the charge of what was stolen from the victim and how. At the same time, a reference was used to the decision of the arbitration court of 2014 that the FSS of the Russian Federation is the copyright holder of the programs,
| “As long as this decision of the arbitration court is not canceled, it cannot be recognized that the FSS of the Russian Federation has lost the rights to the programs,” the lawyer believes The lawyer is convinced that exclusive rights to the results of intellectual property cannot be the subject of theft. “Therefore, this sentence is an example of ignoring the law,” the lawyer concluded. |
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