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The Irkutsk Region investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee have finished investigating a criminal case against director and deputy director of Baikal-Lensk State Nature Reserve. Depending on the role, they are charged with crimes under part 6 of article 290 of the RF Penal Code (bribery by an official on an especially massive scale), part 4 of article 160 (embezzlement by an organized group on an especially massive scale), paragraph “c” of part 5 of article 290 (bribery by an official on an especially massive scale), part 3 of article 160 (embezzlement on an especially massive scale), part 1 of article 292 (forgery by an official).

According to investigators, between June and October 2012, the director of Baikal-Lensk Reserve and his deputy conspired to steal money on an especially massive scale using their official positions. They decided to steal the money, entrusted to the director from the budget of the Russian Federation, by embezzlement during the execution of state contracts concluded with OOO Trade House Tenar on supplying three forest-fire modules Piranha-7 for the needs of the reserve. The deputy, acting on the instructions of the director and our of mercenary motives, offered the CEO of Tenar to overstate the price of the modules for purchase up to 2 million 653 thousand rubles per item and give them the difference. The CEO accepted the offer. Soon the official got 1 million 40 thousand rubles as their illegal fee.

The criminal case against the deputy director of the reserve has been severed in a separate lawsuit as cooperated with the investigators.

In addition, the director of the reserve to implement his criminal intention of stealing a lot of budget funds by embezzlement, during a personal meeting, knowing the price of one item of self-contained power supply source, which was 150 thousand rubles, offered the CEO of OOO Avtosklad to overstate the price of each of the sets for purchase up to 160 thousand 50 rubles per item and give him a sum equal to about 5% of the sum of contracts. Later he received from the CEO 120 thousand rubles and an item of self-contained power supply source bought on 160 thousand 50 rubles of the RF budget.

The investigators have gathered enough evidence, therefore, the criminal case with the approved indictment has been sent to court to be tried on the merits.