A fugitive professor from Nicaragua, an 18 million bribe, exams for sale and a lawsuit for 800 thousand rubles: anti-corruption purge of universities in 2024

The exam period at Russian universities is traditionally a hot time for anti-corruption fighters. The rector of the Kaliningrad Immanuel Kant University was recently arrested Alexandra Fedorova. Life.ru has collected details of similar stories.

There is a concept in forensics: a bribe is the fastest way to treason. Maybe that is why bribery cases at universities have finally been given the green light? Or is this a seasonal story? Life.ru examines the scandals of the most famous universities in recent months.

Scandal at Kaliningrad University named after Kant for 18 million rubles In July, the rector of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University was arrested Alexander FedorovAccording to Kaliningrad media, he and his deputy Elena Myalkina accused of accepting a bribe.

According to the investigation, Fyodorov and his deputy wrote out bonuses to the university employees from 2022 to June 2024, which they kept for themselves. According to the investigation, they managed to steal more than 18 million from the treasury.

Taking into account the development of the Kaliningrad university, which planned to build a new campus “Kantiana” with a budget of more than 16 billion rubles, the security forces could subject the institution’s management to a total audit, and then reveal violations.

How can terrorists and the A.S. Pushkin Institute be connected? While investigating the terrorist attack in Crocus, where 145 people died on March 22, security forces tracked down companies that were involved in the legalization of migrants, helping them successfully pass Russian language tests and obtain certificates. Employees of the Pushkin State Institute of the Russian Language also came under suspicion. The Cheremushkinsky Court of Moscow placed a former employee of the university under house arrest Marina BalburovaAccording to preliminary data, almost 500 citizens of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan received certificates through this scheme, certifying successful passing of the Russian language exam.

After this, the university rector was dismissed. Natalia Trukhanovskayafamous for its special “approaches” to the education system. For example, in 2022, it proposed teaching Russian as a foreign language in the national republics of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism). At that time, the idea was considered a provocation that could lead to only one thing – an internal split in the country.

What is VSU rector Dmitry Endovitsky suspected of? In mid-June, the rector of Voronezh State University was detained Dmitry Endovitskywho, according to investigators, paid a bribe of 1.5 million rubles for his wife Elena’s dissertation. SHOT Telegram channel notes that in 2022 the rector’s wife defended her dissertation on the topic “Managing the life cycle of personnel controlling in the interests of innovative development of corporate economic systems.” But she could not do it. She did not answer the commission’s questions and did not receive an academic degree.

Later, VSU rector Dmitry Yendovitsky was accused of bribery had tried appeal the arrest. But the court sent him to a pretrial detention center until August 14 inclusive. Another defendant in the case is a 75-year-old professor, head of the Department of Economics and Management of Organizations at the Faculty of Economics of VSU Yuri Treshchevskywho is suspected of acting as an intermediary, was also placed under house arrest for two months.

How students and teachers traded exams at a medical university A loud scandal also broke out at the Russian University of Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country). On June 20, it became known that investigators of the Investigative Committee detained students and teachers who collected money for passing exams. As a result, two criminal cases on bribery were opened. According to media reports, the university came under FSB investigation after receiving information about the critically low education of graduates. The investigation is not disclosing the details of the accused.

Why was the ex-associate professor of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy arrested? Eight days later, a former teacher of the Moscow State Law Academy named after O.E. Kutafin (MSAL), former associate professor, and candidate of legal sciences, wanted for bribery, was arrested at Domodedovo Airport Oksana Viktorovna Belyakovskaya. At the university, she taught administrative proceedings, labor law, and professional ethics. Two criminal cases have been opened against her under articles on bribery and mediation in bribery. She could face up to 15 years in prison.

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