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Persons charged with swindling in purchasing CT scanners to appear in court in Altai Territory

Siberian Federal District Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has completed investigation of a criminal case against CEO of ZAO Stomaks (CJSC) Vadim Nekrasov, former employee of OOO Siemens (LC) (Moscow) Ivan Polivanov and Deputy head Doctor of Territorial Clinical Hospital (Barnaul) Viktor Kapustin. They are suspected of a crime under part 4 of article 159 of the RF Criminal Code (swindling).

According to investigators, in the period between May 2007 and August 2009, Kapustin, Nekrasov and Polivanov to steal 150 million rubles from the budget of the Altai Territory submitted to the Territorial Clinical Hospital data on knowingly overrated, almost twofold, prices for a CT scanner necessary to the hospital for implementation of the state target program on elimination of consequences of radiation accidents. On the basis of these documents the hospital held biddings and the company ZAO Stomaks became the winner. To make the deal look more lawful representatives of ZAO Stomaks involved in the beddings another front organization, representatives of which did not show up at the biddings under the deal with the accused.

In order to complete the fraud the delivery of the CT scanner was executed through an auction company registered in New Zealand, to the account of which the accused had access. |The budget money received by this fraud was taken out abroad in several stages. In accordance with the conclusion of a forensic examination, the damage resulted from groundless overprice of CT scanner amounts to more than 70 million rubles.

Investigators have collected enough evidence and accordingly the case with the approved indictment is forwarded to the court to be tried on the merits.