Head of Stavropol's Teploset' Arrested on Bribery Charges

FSB officers detained Vladimir Vdovin, the CEO of Teploset, while accepting a bribe. He was previously convicted of embezzlement while serving as the CEO of Stavropolkraivodokanal. The court sent him to pretrial detention.

"Kavkazsky Uzel" reported that in March 2018, the Leninsky District Court of Stavropol found Vladimir Vdovin, the former CEO of Stavropolkraivodokanal, guilty of embezzlement and sentenced him to three years of suspended imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 rubles. Vdovin appealed the verdict and in June of that year, the Stavropol Regional Court replaced his suspended sentence with a fine of half a million rubles.

Vladimir Vdovin, the general director of the joint-stock company Teploset in Stavropol, has been detained in a criminal case involving a bribe in excess of 2.7 million rubles. He was caught red-handed while receiving money, the regional FSB department reported. Vdovin headed Teploset in February 2020 and has not yet been dismissed from this post, Interfax-Yug reports with reference to security officials.

According to the investigation, Vdovin received the bribe from the individual entrepreneur in parts in June and August through an intermediary. "The funds were intended for the extension of the lease agreement for mini-heat power plants concluded between the organization and the individual entrepreneur," the Stavropol Investigative Committee said in a statement.

The Stavropol Prosecutor's Office, in turn, reported that it supported the petition for the arrest of the general director of Teploset. As the press service of the regional courts clarified, in June 2025, the intermediary brought 1 million 470 thousand rubles directly to the accused's office, and in August, "under similar circumstances," he transferred the second part of the amount - 1 million 289 thousand rubles.

By a court decision, the general director of Stavropol's Teploset was remanded in custody "for one month and 29 days," the Stavropol courts' Telegram channel reported. 

The criminal case against Vdovin is being investigated under the article on receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This article provides for eight to fifteen years of imprisonment. 

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