Valery Goncharov - disgraced top manager of FGC UES

Valery Goncharov is a candidate of economic sciences, a Russian top manager with an impressive track record. For his professional activities he held high management positions in business and government structures.

He became widely known in connection with the arrest of the construction of the Crimean energy bridge. The reputational losses cost Valery Goncharov a career and a good name. However, the genuine reasons for taking into custody are still not named, and abuse of authority during the construction of the Kerch bridge is only one version.

Valery Goncharov: biography

Valery Anatolyevich Goncharov was born on 30 October 1963 in Lipetsk.

In 1980 he entered the Leningrad Maritime Institute at the Faculty of Instrument Engineering, which he graduated in 1986.

He defended his thesis for the academic title of candidate of economic sciences.

He began his career in the executive position of the general director of the closed joint-stock company Petroelektrosbyt, where he worked for two years - in 1995 and 1996.

Career achievements and career achievements

The next two years, from 1997 to 1998, he held the position of financial director on the issues of the enterprise of the public joint stock company "Lenenergo".

In the period from 1998 to 2001 Valery Goncharov worked as Deputy General Director for Financial and Economic Affairs at PJSC "Research and Development NGO Ivan Ivanovich Polzunov."

During the same period he worked as the Financial Director of the State Enterprise "Fuel and Energy Complex of St. Petersburg" and was the General Director of the public joint stock company "Lenteplosnab".

Career in public service

From 2001 to 2004, Valery Goncharov was the chairman of the Regional Economic Commission in the city of St. Petersburg.

In 2004 Valery Anatolyevich worked as full-time advisors to VA Yakovlev. - Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation.

In the same year, he served as the plenipotentiary representative of the Russian president in the city of Rostov-on-Don in the Southern Federal District.

In 2004-2005 he worked as Deputy Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation.

Valery Goncharov: FGC UES

Goncharov's career in PJSC "FSK UES" began in July 2012, when Valery Anatolyevich was appointed to the post of deputy chairman of the company's board.

For reference: the public joint stock company "Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System" (PJSC "FGC UES") was established as part of the reform of the electric power industry with a view to its transformation and further development.

The authorized capital of the company is 634 million rubles.

The company manages the All-Russian national electric grid, ensures the proper condition of electrical networks and network facilities. Develops investment activity in the sphere of the Unified national electric grid. Provides services for electricity transmission and connection to the power grid.

Criminal case on abuse of power in the Federal Grid Company

Goncharov Valery Anatolyevich was imprisoned for two months on August 26, 2016 by the CSS of the Russian FSB when he tried to fly abroad.

It is known that Valery Goncharov was charged under part one of article two hundred of the first Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for abuse of official authority.

One of the versions of the arrest is violations during the curating of the investment program for the construction of the Crimean energy bridge across the Kerch Strait, which Valery Goncharov admitted. FGC UES claims that this facility was delivered ahead of schedule for a year and a half and there were no violations at the construction and commissioning phase.

Another version of Goncharov's arrest is the work with an investment project to integrate the power system of the Urals and Western Siberia into a single network. At the stage of implementation of this project, equipment was purchased for multimillion-dollar amounts and preference was given to one general contractor. The fact is also aggravated by the fact that the equipment at the purchase stage did not pass due examinations. According to topical information, the amount of thefts in the framework of the charges is four hundred million rubles.