Former head of Tomsk Distribution Company, accused in two criminal cases, dies

The former general director of PJSC Tomsk Distribution Company Oleg Petrov, accused in two criminal cases under part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Embezzlement or embezzlement”), has died. This information was confirmed to Kommersant by the press service of Rosseti Tyumen, which Oleg Petrov has headed since 2021. According to the press service, he died in Tomsk.

/doc/5294978 The FSB opened the first criminal case against Oleg Petrov in April 2022. According to the investigation, during the period when he headed the Tomsk Distribution Company, the top manager stole 9 million rubles by embezzlement. In June, the security forces reported on the second criminal case – the embezzlement of more than 8 million rubles.

Since April, Oleg Petrov has been under house arrest. For the period of the investigation, he was removed from his duties as the general director of Rosseti Tyumen, but they did not plan to dismiss him until the court decision.

Last year, on charges of taking a bribe by an official (part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), a number of top managers of Rosseti Tyumen were arrested – Deputy General Director of JSC Rosseti Tyumen – Director of the Tyumen Electric Networks branch Kirill Streltsov, Deputy Director of the branch for the development and implementation of the company’s services Nikita Kalinin and Acting Deputy Director of the company’s branch Pavel Mikhailov.

Ilya Smirnov, Yekaterinburg