The state prosecutor’s office has demanded a sentence of nine years and ten months in prison for the top manager of the EMK-Engineering company Andrei Chesnokov in the case of fraud with funds from the Russian Defense Ministry. This was reported by “Kommersant”
“Special services used the businessman more than once to expose dishonest colleagues, and then caught him for fraud,” the publication explained.
Chesnokov’s alleged accomplices, businessman Vadim Lesnykh and Vasily Titov, face nine and a half years and eight years in prison respectively.
In 2019, law enforcement agencies filed a lawsuit. According to the investigation, Gradstroyproekt LLC signed contracts with the Main Military Construction Directorate of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise No. 13 for the reconstruction of the Terekta and Turgai military training grounds in Kazakhstan. Of the 760 million rubles allocated from the budget, about 500 million were stolen by accomplices and transferred through shell companies.
On July 20, it became known that the management of Balashikha Foundry and Mechanical Plant OJSC (BLMZ) was taken over. started Criminal proceedings for abuse of authority in the execution of a state defense order.
It was previously reported that the case was that of former deputy head of the Ministry of Defense Timur Ivanov. may appear new defendant.
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Source: Gazeta
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