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Investigating operations against inspector of Chamber of Accounts charged with fraud completed

Siberian Federal District Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has completed investigating operations in a criminal case opened against former chief inspector if inspectorate on control of federal financial support fund in subjects of the Russian Federation of the Chamber of Accounts Pavel Yeremeyev. He is charged with a crime under paragraph “b” of part 3 of article 159 of the RF Criminal Code (fraud committed by a group of persons under a preliminary conspiracy and on a grand scale).

In July 2002, Yeremeyev was in the city of Ulan-Ude as a member of a brigade of the Chamber of Accounts checking the execution of budget by the Republic of Buryatia. According to investigators, acting together with unknown people he organized signing by the government of Buryatia an agreement with a phony firm OOO TK Krimson (LLC) on development and adoption of state automated system of financial planning and management of purchases for state needs of the republic and determined the price of the agreement as 1 million US dollars.

Pursuant to this agreement, 30 million rubles were groundlessly transferred from the budget of Buryatia to the account of OOO TK Krimson registered on a man of straw and not conducting any business activity. The money then was taken abroad.

Yeremeyev was internationally wanted for a long time. He hid abroad, including Uzbekistan and was detained during investigating and search operations in Moscow. During investigation the accused was placed in custody.

At present the investigating operations are finished, the files of the case have been given to the participants of the criminal legal procedure to study.