Piket Executives Sentenced for Defective Military Vests
The Moscow Meshchansky District Court sentenced two top managers of the company 'Piket'—Viktoriya Antonova and Mikhail Kalkchenko—to 10 and 7 years in prison, respectively, for supplying defective bulletproof vests to the Russian Ministry of Defense. The court also ordered them to pay 2.4 billion rubles in damages.
Consensus
- The Moscow Meshchansky District Court issued a verdict on two top managers of the company 'Pikет'.
- The defendants were convicted of supplying defective bulletproof vests to the Russian Ministry of Defence.
- The court sentenced Viktoriya Antonova to 10 years in prison and Mikhail Kalkchenko to 7 years in prison.
- Both were fined—Antonova 1 million rubles, Kalkchenko 900 thousand rubles.
- The court ordered the defendants to pay 2.4 billion rubles to the Ministry of Defence.
- The case involved a contract for 20,000 bulletproof vests for military personnel involved in the special military operation.
- The vests were found to lack the required kevlar layer for fragment protection and were assembled in garages and offices.
- The defendants were detained in April 2024.
- The company 'Piket' previously engaged in construction and clothing production before the war in Ukraine.
Points of divergence
- The court sentenced Viktoriya Antonova and Mikhail Kalkchenko to ten and seven years in prison, respectively, with the sentence for Antonova including a two-year unexpired term for illegal banking activity. — kommersant
- Andrey Esipov, the general director of 'Piket', was sentenced to nine years in prison in November 2025, with charges of fraud and money laundering, and he entered into a pre-trial agreement with the Prosecutor's Office. — mediazona
- The court sentenced Andrey Esipov to eight years in prison, not nine, and ordered the seizure of personal assets including branded bags, land, and a car. — vedomosti
- The bulletproof vests were assembled in garages using tactical vests from the 'Sadovod' market and uncertified armor plates, and did not provide protection against fragments. — tg_theinsider
- The court sentenced Andrey Esipov in November of the previous year to nine years in prison and fined him 800 thousand rubles. — vm
Coverage (9 sources)
- Former military personnel of the Ministry of Defense Kuznetsov sentenced to 12 years — Вести
- Suppliers of 30 thousand unsuitable body armor for participants of SVO received sentences — Коммерсантъ
- Court sentenced two top executives of a company that supplied the Ministry of Defense with substandard body armor to 7 to 10 years in prison — Медиазона
- Suppliers of body armor for Russian military sentenced to 7 and 10 years. Items were assembled in garages, and they did not provide the protection stipulated by the contract — The Insider
- Court sent top executives of "Piketa" to prison for defective body armor — Ведомости
- Top manager of 'Piketa' given 10 years for supplying substandard body armor — Коммерсантъ
- Moscow court sentenced head of GK "Picket" Esipov to 9 years in prison for defective body armor case, reports correspondent... — ТАСС (Telegram)
- Defendants sentenced in Moscow for supplying defective body armor — Вести
- Case on delivery of non-compliant body armor to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: who was sentenced, what terms were given to the defendants — Вечерняя Москва
Key entities
- Moscow
- TASS
- Victoria Antonova
- Mikhail Kalkachenko
- PKET LLC
- Ministry of Defense
- Russia
- Picket
- Kuznetsov
- Meshchansky Court
- Meshchansky District Court
- PKET LLC
- Ministries of Defense