The Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced Sergey Kushnarev, ex-head of the public procurement and pricing department of the Russian Defense Ministry, to four years probation, finding him guilty of a particularly large-scale fraud, Kommersant writes.
He was also deprived of his class rank and the right to hold positions in the civil service and local governments related to the exercise of organizational, administrative and administrative powers for a period of 2 years.
The court concluded that the actions of the official, his subordinates and businessmen associated with him caused damage to the military department in the amount of more than 300 million rubles. maintenance of its premises.
The case on the fact of a particularly large-scale fraud in the procurement system of the defense department was initiated by the Main Military Investigation Department (GVSU) of the RF IC at the end of June 2020. At first, Kushnarev passed through it as a witness, but after 10 months, the investigators decided that he was responsible for the damage caused. In March 2021, Kushnarev was arrested. Officers of the military department Ivan Gnatyuk and Ruslan Besedin were also taken into custody on charges of fraud, and in addition, the head of one of the cleaning companies, Svetlana Maslennikova.
The investigation established that these and other defendants provided the Ministry of Defense with services at inflated prices for maintaining the premises, including cleaning them. In total, 323 million 597 thousand rubles were stolen in this way. Kushnarev and Gnatiuk concluded pre-trial cooperation agreements with the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office, under which they revealed the entire mechanism of theft, the participation of other persons in it and reported on episodes unknown to the investigation, the newspaper wrote.
Source: Rosbalt
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