Alexei Walentinowitsch Ulyukayev

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Alexei Ulyukayev (2015)

Alexei Walentinowitsch Uljukajew ( Russian Алексей Валентинович Улюкаев ; born March 23, 1956 in Moscow ) is a Russian politician. From June 24, 2013 to November 15, 2016 he was Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation.

Life

Ulyukayev studied economics at the economics faculty of Lomonosov University in Moscow. He graduated in 1979 successfully and then graduated from the faculty's postgraduate , which he successfully completed the 1,982th

In the 1990s he was an advisor to the government of the Russian Federation .

From 2004 to 2013 Ulyukayev was First Deputy President of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation , Sergei Ignatiev . He then succeeded Andrei Belousov as Minister of Economics.

In addition to Russian, Ulyukayev speaks English and French.

politics

During the ruble inflation in 2014, Ulyukayev expressed himself very differently from Putin , who described foreign speculators as responsible. Ulyukayev named delayed reforms and inaction as the causes. The Ministry of Commerce's original agenda, "economic liberalization, privatization of state-owned companies, attracting foreign direct investment, improving the business climate, had become almost taboo for the Kremlin," wrote the Novaya Gazeta later.

In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in November 2014, Ulyukayev was self-critical. Among other things, he criticized the action taken by the authorities against the Bashneft oil company to determine the majority owner and to confiscate the shares. Ulyukayev did not want to support a possibly illegal act; Novaya Gazeta wrote: "Ulyukayev, however, refused to agree on a deal on Rosneft's actual self-buyback, which involved raising capital from VTB - first for reasons of principle and second because he was unwilling to participate in a transaction he did as fake and therefore possibly illegal. " After Sechin's victory in this battle, Ulyukayev went to the president and put his resignation on the table. Instead, he was arrested a short time later. He was the first Russian minister to be arrested in office since the end of the Soviet Union .

Corruption allegation

On November 14, 2016, Ulyukayev was arrested and placed under house arrest. On November 15, 2016, Ulyukayev was dismissed as Minister of Economy by presidential decree on the grounds that he had lost confidence. His former deputy, Yevgeny Jelin , was appointed as his acting successor .

Ulyukayev is accused of having accepted a $ 2 million bribe as the original opponent of the takeover of the Bashneft oil company . He is said to have been caught red- handed giving the bribe in Igor Sechin's office , allegedly believing that he would receive sausages or documents for the conversation. The Tagesschau assumed political motives and thus President Putin of wanting to get rid of Ulyukayev. Other commentators such as Anton Pominow, the director of Transparency International Russia, question the allegations against Ulyukayev purely because of the insufficient amount for a minister. Anatoly Chubais said that if it were true that Ulyukayev had blackmailed Rosneft, he would have to say that all of a sudden and surprisingly he no longer understood how the system that he was very familiar with worked. Gleb Pavlovsky cited the allegation that Ulyukayev had pressed Rosneft complete nonsense when it came to a matter that Putin decided. The procedure is therefore considered to be constructed, the Novaya Gazeta wrote about the alleged event that it simply could not be right and rather asked questions about Putin's role and the beneficiary of the sale of over 19 percent of Rosneft shares during the purchase of Bashneft, da Rosneft would not have had the funds at the time of purchase.

The trial of Ulyukayev began on August 16, 2017 in a district court in Moscow. When asked how the proceedings would turn out, Ulyukayev, who had been able to state publicly for the first time since November 2016, replied that “from a historical point of view, it would turn out well”.

There were various recordings of the talks on the day in question, the publication of which was described by the Sechin court as bungling. Sechin asked Ulyukayev to stop by Gazprom, according to the records. During the recorded conversation about company issues, Setschin changed the subject abruptly. The assessment was also heard that Sechin had not expressed himself clearly enough during the conversation to provide evidence. The videos were shown on October 12, and the Novaya Gazeta correspondent noticed that Ulyukayev simply lifted the bag, which, according to the investigation, would have weighed over 20 kilograms with the 2 million dollars. The British BBC leaked the interrogation protocols from Igor Sechin in November, according to which it would have been Ulyukayev who proposed the meeting. This contradicted the phone recordings heard. Igor Sechin had failed to take notice of three summons before the court on November 22, 2017 and was summoned a fourth time on November 27. Sechin did not appear on the fourth subpoena on November 27th either. At the appeal hearing in April 2018, Sechin appeared as a witness, but was allowed to make his statements in camera.

On December 15, 2017, Ulyukayev was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in a prison camp and a payment of 130 million rubles (equivalent to 1.87 million euros). In addition, he loses his official status. The prosecutor had asked for ten years in a maximum security prison. Before his verdict was announced, Ulyukayev spoke one last time. He particularly emphasized the astonishing transformation of the Sechin victim into a witness and then into a “phantom witness”. He went on to say, “Like a circus, my case attracted public interest: a retired gladiator defended himself with a cardboard sword and people watched in amusement from their comfortable armchairs. (...) Guilt or innocence was decided long beforehand. But that applies to each of you. (...) But I feel guilty that I made too many compromises. I chose easy paths, preferred career and wealth. I was hypocritical and focused on building personal relationships. When you get into an awkward position yourself, you will understand how difficult it is for ordinary people and how much injustice is done to them. But when you're okay, you shamelessly turn away from human grief. Forgive me for these mistakes! "

In the appeal hearing in April 2018, the defense demanded that Igor Sechin respond to the changed statements by at least reducing the sentence. According to reports, Sechin had stated that Ulyukayev would never have been able to prevent the Bashneft deal. The article on the basis of which Ulyukayev was convicted is therefore no longer relevant. The statement by Sechin about the alleged events in Goa in autumn 2016 called Ulyukayev "absurd". The court left the sentence unchanged, it only lifted the future exclusion from political office. The decision will not be published.

family

Ulyukayev is married and has two sons and a daughter.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Alexei Ulyukayev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: ru: Алексей Улюкаев  - message

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appointment as Minister of Economic Affairs, Ukas of June 24, 2013
  2. ^ Announcement of the dismissal as Minister of Economics
  3. ↑ Short biography on the website of the Russian Central Bank ( Memento from May 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
  4. ↑ Interview: Russian Minister of Economic Affairs blames Russia for the crisis , spiegel.de, December 18, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b Condemned to treasure - ministers and presidential advisers have become decision-makers. New Study: Who Determines Russia's Strategic Course? , Novaya Gazeta, 23 August 2019
  6. ↑ Interview with Minister of Economics Ulyukayev: Russia woos Western investors , faz.net, November 24, 2014.
  7. ↑ a b NZZ : Commissioned work for Russia's judiciary , August 9, 2017, page 23
  8. ↑ Russian economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev detained over alleged $ 2 million bribe The Telegraph, November 15, 2016.
  9. ↑ Russian minister dismissed and arrested for bribery.
  10. ↑ Who brought the basket? Meduza tracks down the impressive Rosneft figure who apparently packed Alexey Ulyukayev's 2-million-dollar bribe , Meduza, 6.0 September 2017
  11. ↑ Russia's Arrested Economy Minister Duped Over Rosneft 'Bribe,' Say Lawyers ; The Moscow Times, January 3, 2017
  12. ^ Sabine Stöhr: Did the Minister of Economic Affairs extort bribes? In: tagesschau.de. November 15, 2016, archived from the original on November 15, 2016 ; accessed on November 15, 2016 .
  13. ↑ This sum corresponds to a mayor. Spiegel Online, November 19, 2016.
  14. ↑ The Loyalty of Fear , The Moscow Times, November 16, 2016
  15. ↑ Julia Latynina: The main victim was not Ulyukayev, but Putin , Novaya Gazeta, August 18, 2017
  16. ↑ Former Minister Ulyukayev In Court Over Rosneft Bribe: Day One. In: themoscowtimes.com. Retrieved August 18, 2017 .
  17. ↑ “Take a basket” , Zona.Media, September 5, 2017
  18. ↑ The media learned of the destruction of the basket with sausages from the Ulyukayev case , Novaya Gazeta, October 3, 2017
  19. ↑ 2 million sausages or 2 million dollars , NZZ , September 9, 2017, page 28
  20. ↑ A Russian intrigue is getting out of hand , NZZ, November 24, 2017
  21. ↑ FSB showed the video transmission of the transfer of funds from Sechin to Ulyukayev , Novaya Gazeta, October 12, 2017
  22. ↑ Sechin's Evidence In Former Russian Minister's Bribe Case Reportedly Leaked , RFERL, November 24, 2017
  23. ↑ Putin's friend Sechin lets the Russian justice system run nowhere , NZZ, November 27, 2017
  24. ↑ NZZ, April 13, 2018, page 4
  25. ↑ Russian ex-minister of economics: Ulyukayev has to be in camp for eight years. In: Spiegel Online . December 15, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
  26. ↑ « Я виновен в другом »: последнее слово Улюкаева в суде . In: ТАСС . ( tass.ru [accessed December 17, 2017]).
  27. ↑ An elderly gladiator and his cardboard sword Alexey Ulyukayev's closing statement (in English) , meduza, December 7, 2017
  28. ^ “The Bell” learned of a possible motion to reassess Ulyukayev's charges , Novaya Gazeta, April 12, 2018
  29. ↑ The Moscow City Court refused to publish the grounds for the Ulyukayev case based on Sechin's testimony , Novaya Gazeta, June 20, 2018
  30. ↑ Biography on ria.ru (Russian)
  31. ↑ Ukas of the President of Russia of August 1, 2006 No. 804 (Russian)
  32. ↑ Ukas of the President of Russia of June 17, 2010 No. 757 (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Ulyukayev, Alexei Walentinowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uljukaev, Aleksej Valentinovič; Улюкаев, Алексей Валентинович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow