The case regarding a major case of fraud during the restoration of objects of the Moscow Kremlin ended in the capital. This was reported by “Kommersant”.
The defendant, General Director of Petersburg Renaissance LLC Ivan Orynchuk, was sentenced to four years in prison with the payment of debts of 88 million rubles to the capital construction department of the FSO.
According to the publication, the trial began in March 2024 at the Moscow Tverskoy Court. Only a few hearings took place in the case before the verdict, and this was made possible thanks to Orynchuk’s pre-trial agreement with the prosecutor’s office, in which he fully admitted his guilt.
He also accused of corruption a former employee of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Golokhvostov, who signed fake job acceptance certificates in exchange for a bribe of 700 thousand rubles. As a result, by court decision (the case was considered separately), he was stripped of his rank and sent to serve his sentence in a maximum security colony for 11 years.
The first contract for work in the Kremlin was signed by the defendant’s company in April 2017: it undertook to restore the Renaissance, Tsarskaya, Nabatnaya, Beklemishevskaya and Senate towers, as well as objects in the Alexander Garden. At first everything went well, but in 2018 the company encountered financial difficulties and Orynchuk decided to sign a new contract with FSO in order to find funds to continue work. The resulting advance in the amount of 89 million rubles was spent on paying salaries, purchasing construction and finishing materials, and paying taxes. And there was no longer enough money to complete the second contract for the restoration of other Kremlin towers.
Orynchuk has no intention of appealing the decision. Considering the time he spent in the pre-trial detention center, he was sentenced to 1 year and 9 months in prison.
The court had previously sentenced a man. tried to set it on fire Lenin’s Mausoleum.
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Source: Gazeta
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