At the Moscow Meshchansky Court, top managers of the Tractor Plants Concern (KTZ) machinery manufacturing holding, deputy director of economics and corporate finance Mikhail Shkolnik, and former head of the treasury Irina Vostorgina were found guilty of committing major crimes. embezzlement According to information RBCMikhail Shkolnik was sentenced to 4 years, and Irina Vostorgina to 3.5 years. They were also fined 400,000 and 350,000 rubles, respectively.
The court replaced the actual prison sentence with a conditional one. In line with the demands of the prosecutor’s office, it was decided that they should be sentenced to 6 years in prison and a fine of 1 million rubles.
In early November 2022, the Moscow Meshchansky Court sentenced Mikhail Bolotin, founder and former chairman of KTZ, to two years in prison for embezzling money in the amount of 90 million rubles from the budget. Mikhail Bolotin pleaded guilty and signed a pre-trial agreement with the Attorney General’s Office allowing him to be tried in a private manner. The court sentenced him to serve his sentence in a penal colony, but he spent most of that time in pretrial detention and was released four months later.
According to researchers, in the period from 2014 to 2015, KTZ received 5.2 billion rubles from the Ministry of Defense under the state defense order for the creation of prototypes of armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles called Kurganets. But the researchers found that 90 million rubles were allocated in the form of loans to a certain company connected with the management of the concern.
Previously charged with attempted arms and explosives smuggling in Moscow arrested Belarusian citizen.