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Main Military Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has completed investigating a criminal case against former deputy finance and economic director of Production and Repairs Enterprise of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (hereinafter – the Enterprise) Kirill Korotkov and deputy head of financial department of the Enterprise Igor Selin. They are charged with a crime under part 4 of article 159 of the RF Criminal Code (swindling committed by a group of people under a preliminary conspiracy using official position and inflicting especially large-scale damage).

According to investigators, in 2007 during implementation of the federal target-specific program “Restructuring the stock of rockets, ammunition and explosive materials, making the system of their storing and using in fire and explosion safe state in 2005-2010” the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Enterprise concluded a state contract on building the store zones worth over 137 million rubles. The same year the Defense Ministry transferred to the Enterprise more than 95.7 million rubles, from which 44.8 million rubles through different firms was transferred to the accounts of OOO Iniks (LLC) owned by wife of the former Head of the Enterprise Sergey Galinich and then cashed and stolen. Expert examinations run during the preliminary investigation showed that Kirill Korotkov, Igor Selin, Sergey Galinich and former deputy head of planning and economy department of the Enterprise Andrey Shishov had made and signed forged financial reporting documents on allegedly finished building on the exactly the same sum.

During the investigation Korotkov was placed in the custody, Selin was under a written undertaking not to leave the country and behave properly. To compensate the damage the property of the accused was arrested.

Investigators have gathered enough evidence, therefore, the case with the approved indictment was sent to court to be tried on the merits.

Earlier investigation and court found that for his illegal actions Shishov had received 15 thousand US dollars, which at the moment of the crime under the exchange rate of Central Bank of the Russian Federation equaled to about 370 thousand rubles, which he spent on his own needs. The court found Shishov guilty of the crime under part 4 of article 159 of the RF Criminal Code (swindling). taking into account that the accused had concluded a pre-trial cooperation agreement and paid 150 thousand rubles to reimburse the damage caused to the state, the court sentenced him to 3 years of a minimum-security penal colony and a fine of 300 thousand rubles.

Having learned that there had been a check in the said circumstances, Sergey Galinich fled. After the case had been opened he was announced wanted. He is charged in absentia with a crime under part 4 of article 159 of the RF Criminal Code (swindling). The court also granted a petition of a military investigator and ruled to place him in custody.