The media learned about the planned retirement of the detainee for a bribe Ulyukayev
The Minister of economic development of Russia Alexei Ulyukayev, the detainee on suspicion in extortion of bribes for the privatization of “Bashneft”, in October wrote a letter of resignation. About it reports on Tuesday, November 15, “the Newspaper said.ru” with reference to sources in the government.
The resignation of the Minister, according to one of interlocutors of the edition, expected after the budget discussions in the state Duma. The reason for such a step, according to “Newspaper.ru”, had a dispute with the Finance Ministry about the accuracy of macroeconomic forecast. The Minister insisted that inflation in the baseline forecast in 2017 is expected to decline over the three years from 4.6 percent to 3.9 percent, and the dollar — down from 65.5 rubles next year to 64.4 ruble in 2019.
Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, in turn, argued that inflation was unchanged the three-year period, remaining at 4 percent per year, and the dollar should rise from 67.5 rubles in 2017 to 71.1 ruble in 2019 the Difference in the forecasts his Department has estimated at 300 billion rubles.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, according to “Newspaper.ru” Siluanov supported the position, which angered the speaker. In this regard, he refused to go to the economic forum in Sochi citing illness. And in October the Ministry of economic development submitted to the government a macroeconomic forecast up to 2035, in which the predicted stagnation of the Russian economy to 2035 with annual growth not above 2 percent.
On Tuesday, the investigation Committee announced the arrest of the speaker and excitation against it criminal case under part 6 of article 290 of the criminal code of Russian Federation “bribe reception in especially large size”. According to investigators, he received 2 million US dollars for a positive assessment from the Ministry of economic development, which allowed Rosneft to acquire state-owned shares “Bashneft”. The bribe he extorted with threats and was caught red-handed.
The source of “Interfax” was told that $ 2 million was transferred to the Minister of economic development Alexei Ulyukayev as a bribe under the control of law enforcement officers. However, he noted that claims to the leadership of “Rosneft” no.
According to RIA Novosti, the speaker was in development for the FSB more than a year. October 12, Rosneft closed the acquisition of state-owned shares “Bashneft”.