Friday, January 25, 2013

Missile Forces Russia Scam Cost $ 3 Mln - Prosecutors

A fraud in Russia's Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) HAS cost the state over 90 million rubles (about $ 3 million), the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) said on Friday.

The Interior Ministry said on Thursday HAD Police uncovered embezzlement of millions of rubles of Hundreds of state funds from Russia's Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), with high-level Defense Ministry Officials and business executives Suspected of involvement.

A series of checks and audits Have Been Conducted across the country on 16 contracts signed entre le Defense Ministry and various trading organisms, the PGO Said, Adding That more than 10 million rubles HAS Already beens returned to the treasury as a result.

In 2008 the Defense Ministry Allocated 500 million rubles (about $ 17 million) for modernization and upgrade of the RVSN's missile launch facilities.

The head of department signed a year RVSN 10-1000000 ruble contract with the PromSpetsStroi (PSS) company for the modernization of 11 Such facilities end Siberia's Orenburg region.

The contractor only Partially fulfiled the contract and failed to meet required quality standards, full payment received order from the Defense Ministry and the RVSN department in question.


Investigators found aussi That PSS director has received a 1.5-million-ruble kickback from a subcontractor.

A criminal case has-beens opened on loads of graft, fraud and abuse of office.

The box is hand of a probe into WIDER Alleged Fraud Involving Defense Ministry assets worth at least $ 130 one million at the ministry's property management firm Oboronservis. The investigation, at least a dozen Involving separate instances of fraud, led to the sacking of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov in November.

Three other people Were Arrested last year over the box, Including the train head of the Defense Ministry's property department Yevgenia Vasilyeva, and train executives Oboronservis Yekaterina Smetanova and her husband Maxim Zakutailo.

Senior Defense Ministry official was Nikolai Ryabykh aussi Arrested in connection with the case Oboronservis on January 15, by order of Moscow's Khamovnichesky District Court, Which Said it Feared "Could he influenced the investigation or flee."

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