Samara Region investigating bodies of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation launched criminal investigation into an offense under Part 3 of Article 159 of the RF Criminal Code (fraud), which is based upon the materials of the Samara Region Main Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia.
According to investigators, in late December 2013, motivated by greed employees of the Samara Law Institute of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service received funds in the amount of 480.5 thousand rubles from first-year students of the Department of Law under the false pretext of material assistance to a minor child who had been diagnosed with a disease requiring expensive treatment. The funds were transferred to their bank accounts as a bonus payment, and then withdrawn. Only 123 thousand rubbles of this amount of money was handed over to the child’s parents, while the remaining funds in the amount of not less than 357.5 thousand rubles were stolen by Institute employees and spent on their personal needs.
Currently, searches are underway in buildings of the Samara Law Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. The criminal investigation is ongoing. Investigation operations aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the incident are being carried out. Operative support of the criminal proceedings is carried out by employees of the Internal Affairs Division of the Samara Region Main Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia.
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