The criminal case of bribery against IT businessman and billionaire Sergey Matsotsky was closed "due to his non-involvement in the commission of the crime," TASS reported, citing case materials. In connection with this, the international search for Matsotsky and his arrest in absentia have been canceled.
The criminal case against the billionaire was initiated on May 26, 2025, he was accused of bribing the heads of FKU "Tax-service" Roman Filimoshin and Dmitry Shalaev, so that they would award state contracts to his company "Rubitech".
"Tax-service" was created in 2001 for organizational, technical, and informational support of the Federal Tax Service. Since 2011, the tax service has been the founder of FKU.
According to the channel "VChK-OPGU"*, Filimoshin and Matsotsky are close friends of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, who introduced them. Mishustin himself, as soon as he became prime minister, also arranged profitable contracts for "Rubitech". After its founding, "Rubitech" received seven state contracts worth 1 billion rubles from the Russian government headed by Mishustin. Among them is a major agreement for the modernization of the IT infrastructure of the Ministry of Finance's data centers for 265 million rubles.
Sergey Matsotsky is a former member of the boards of directors of "Alfa-Bank" and "VimpelCom", co-founder of IBS Group, one of the largest IT service and software providers in Russia. Matsotsky ranked 18th on the list of Russian IT billionaires. At the time of the criminal case initiation, he had left Russia.
* Recognized as a "foreign agent" in Russia.