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Kickback Scheme: Russian National Charged in $33M Scandal
A Russian national has been charged in a $33 million kickback scheme to obtain contracts for transporting Russian nuclear fuel to the US, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland. Vadim Mikerin, 55, a resident of Chevy Chase, Maryland, was charged with conspiring to commit extortion in connection with the scheme.
The scheme involved Mikerin allegedly accepting bribes from American defendants in exchange for awarding them lucrative, non-compete contracts from a Russian company, TENEX. The contracts were worth over $33 million, and the bribes paid by the defendants totaled over $1.6 million.
The charges were announced by US Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein, John R. Hartman, Deputy Inspector General for Investigations, Office of Inspector General at the US Department of Energy, and Assistant Director in Charge Andrew G. McCabe of the Federal Bureau of Investigation – Washington Field Office.
‘Kickbacks deprive honest competitors of the opportunity to compete for business, and they cheat a company of its right to faithful decisions by its employee,’ said US Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein.
The scheme involved the Condreys, principals of Transport Logistics International (TLI), and Boris Rubizhevsky, president of NEXGEN Security, a New Jersey corporation. The defendants allegedly caused TLI to pay at least $1,692,995 in kickback payments to Mikerin in exchange for receiving over $33 million in noncompetitive contracts from TENEX.
The kickback payments to Mikerin were disguised as consulting fees or other fictitious expenses, and the defendants also entered into sham contracts with offshore shell entities knowing that the payments to these entities were in fact being made to Mikerin.
Vadim Mikerin faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for the extortion conspiracy. The Condreys and Rubizhevsky face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for the wire fraud conspiracy. A detention hearing for Mikerin is scheduled for today at 4:30 p.m.
Key Facts
- State: Maryland
- Category: White Collar Crime|Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release —
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