In Crimea, police revealed the theft of budget funds allocated for the construction of a socially significant facility

CrimeaPRESS reports:

Employees of the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Crimea, together with colleagues from the regional FSB Directorate, during operational investigative activities, identified the fact of fraud committed as part of an organized group by the heads of companies carrying out construction and installation work. As investigators established, in 2022, the 49-year-old general director and the 47-year-old financial director of a construction organization, as well as other persons, acting as part of an organized group, committed the theft of budget funds totaling more than 14 million rubles.

Thus, during the construction of a sports and recreation complex in the Perovsky rural settlement of the Simferopol region, the suspects prepared documents containing deliberately false information about the types and volumes of work performed, which later served as the basis for the transfer of budget funds.

As a result of searches conducted at the suspects’ places of residence in the Republic of Crimea and Moscow, documents and other items of evidentiary value were confiscated from them.

During the preliminary investigation, one of the defendants in the criminal case hid from law enforcement agencies outside the Russian Federation and was put on the international wanted list.

The complex of operational-search measures and investigative actions aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the illegal activity continues.

source: press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea

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