Cash report: trial of the heads of the Agency for Technological Development begins
The trial of the heads of the Agency for Technological Development (APR) will begin in the Zamoskvoretsky District Court on June 29. It is part of the structure of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and finances the development of high-tech industries in Russia as part of the import substitution program. However, as the investigation is sure, instead, the deputy head of the agency, Alexander Seregin, and two of his subordinates decided to turn a blind eye to the shortcomings in the accounting documentation of one of the firms for a bribe.
Who is the person involved in the case
In the case, which will be considered by the district court, four defendants are, in addition to Deputy Director General of the Asia—Pacific Region Seregin, Vladilen Martsenyuk, managing director of the agency, Pavel Sladkov, head of import substitution, and their former colleague Konstantin Radinsky.
The investigation of the case was handled by the Investigative Committee, but it is based on the operational materials of the department "P" of the FSB of Russia — it identifies crimes in industry. For several days, the security officers recorded negotiations and meetings of the defendants, during which, according to the investigation, they discussed the nuances of receiving and transferring bribes, and then detained them red-handed. At the same time, Seregin is the only one of the four defendants who did not take the money personally, but in the case file, according to Izvestia, there is a recording of his conversation with managing director Marsenyuk, who brought him a bribe.
Walking near the APR building on Leninsky Prospekt, the deputy general director, it follows from the recording, asked his interlocutor to take 3 million rubles for himself as a reward and keep the rest at home — the investigation regards these words as a direct disposal of corrupt money.
"Amkor", also "Amkor"
As follows from the case file, on July 20, 2025, Roman Latypov, CEO of Tyumen Amkor LLC, received a Telegram message from an unknown number in the Telegram messenger. It soon became clear that Konstantin Radinsky, a former employee of the Agency for Technological Development and now president of the Union of Oil and Gas Equipment Manufacturers, had contacted the businessman. He invited the businessman to meet and discuss the interaction between his company and the Asia-Pacific region. Latypov agreed, since in 2024 his company received three grants from the state budget for 248 million rubles through the state agency. The money was allocated for the development of design documentation for components for the oil and gas industry.
The meeting took place only on August 31 at a cafe on 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street, and at it the president of the Union of Manufacturers told Roman Latypov that his company had problems accepting accounting documents for one of the contracts with the Asia-Pacific region.
This, Radinsky made it clear, would soon lead to on-site inspections of the company, after which, apparently, the issue of refunding the entire amount of federal subsidies received by Amkor would arise. But immediately the interlocutor offered the businessman another option: for 16.5 million rubles, he is ready to solve all the problems he has with reporting and remove Amkor from the list of companies that are subject to verification. Latypov agreed to the offer, but made a reservation that he did not have the required money and in a short time he would be able to find only 5 million rubles, and he would give the rest until November 16, 2025 — the intermediary agreed to this. According to the investigation, the intermediary intended to transfer the first part of the money to his former colleagues from the Asia—Pacific region, and take the rest for himself.
Radinsky, it follows from the case, had already formed a corrupt group of his former colleagues before the conversation in the cafe. To do this, on July 24, he traveled to Basseinaya Street in St. Petersburg, where the conference "Implementation of the national project "New Nuclear and Energy Technologies" was held. Here he met with Pavel Sladkov, head of the Asia-Pacific import substitution department, and agreed with him to participate in a corruption scheme.
Upon returning to Moscow, Sladkov discussed the nuances with Vladilen Marsenyuk, the agency's managing director, and, realizing that he would not be able to stop the checks on his own, according to investigators, he decided to involve Alexander Seregin, Deputy Director General of the Asia-Pacific Region. Having broader powers, he could definitely resolve all issues related to Amkor, the investigation believes.
Writing to Telegram afterwards, Sladkov, Radinsky and Marsenyuk decided that in order to achieve their goal they needed to change the terms of reference for Amkor, and on September 15, the intermediary Radinsky, arriving in Tyumen, made it clear to Latypov that his company's situation had worsened and money was needed faster.
The businessman, after listening to this demand and realizing their "illegal nature," contacted the FSB on September 22, after which all negotiations began under the control of the operatives of the "P" department. Then events developed rapidly: two days later, in the parking lot of a shopping center on Aminyevsky Highway, a businessman handed over 5 million rubles in a package to an intermediary. Moreover, as follows from the case, only the million-ruble bills were real, the rest of the money was a "doll".
Immediately after receiving them, Radinsky was detained by the chekists and immediately agreed to participate in operational search activities. The next day, he made an appointment by phone with Pavel Sladkov, the next participant in the corruption chain, saying in a conversation that he would "give him something." At about 13:00, Radinsky handed over a bribe to an employee of the Asia-Pacific Region in the cabin of his black Land Rover parked on Michurinsky Prospekt, and the car was immediately blocked by operatives.
After quickly agreeing to cooperate, Sladkov met with Managing director Marsenyuk on Kutuzovsky Prospekt on September 26, and after being caught red-handed, the new defendant went to Seregin with marked bills.
Vladilen Martsenyuk, Managing Director of ANO Agency for Technological Development
A few hours after the arrest, the Deputy Director General of the Asia-Pacific Region was charged with accepting a particularly large bribe. Seregin is in jail. The investigation regards the actions of his subordinates as giving a bribe — they are under subscription. The intermediary Konstantin Radinsky was able to fly abroad through Samara and is now, according to operational data, in Canada, of which he is a citizen.
Protection version
It is worth noting that in 2025, the activities of the Agency for Technological Development were harshly criticized by the head of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko. Referring to the report of the Accounts Chamber, she questioned the need for this structure, noting that since its foundation, the Asia-Pacific region has mastered 15.5 billion rubles, while "there is not a single documentary evidence that technological solutions were transferred with its assistance, patents, licenses, and so on were acquired."
The Agency for Technological Development was established by an order of the Russian government on May 26, 2016. Its goal was to create conditions for technology transfer and the development of high-tech industrial production, as well as to assist Russian enterprises in implementing world-class technological solutions. The founder of the Asia-Pacific Region is the Russian Federation, whose powers are exercised by the government. Certain powers are delegated by the agency's charter.
Lawyer Vakha Gishkaev, representing Alexander Seregin's interests, stressed to Izvestia that there was no corpus delicti in his client's actions. The lawyer insists that a bribe was provoked against Seregin, and his client is a "secret employee" of the FSB's "P" department and actually intended to expose the corruption scheme by playing along with its participants. This version was indeed voiced by the accused during the interrogation, Izvestia was convinced after studying the case materials.
At the same time, Igor Bushmanov, managing partner of the AVEX JUST bureau, notes that the courts impose extremely harsh sentences in corruption cases. When considering them, the expert notes, the testimony of witnesses is quite sufficient.
"If there are confessions in the case or one of the defendants has made a deal with the investigation, a guilty verdict is almost inevitable,— Igor Bushmanov emphasized.
The defendants face up to 15 years in prison and a fine of 350 million rubles.
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