Investigating bodies of Moscow Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee have finished investigating operations against former Chancellor of Moscow Architectural Institute Alexander Kudryavtsev and director of a department at the same Institute Ilya Lezhava. They are charged with crimes under part 1 of article 286 of the RF Criminal Code (exceeding official powers) and part 4 of article 159 (swindling).
According to investigators, in the period between 2002 and 2008 Kudryavtsev being the President of Moscow Architectural Institute on the rights of Chancellor of the Architectural Institute and Vice-Chancellor for Research Lezhava decided to take part as businessmen in constructing a residential house in Moscow in order to improve living conditions of professors. With this purpose they, under the investment contract, not having informed the accounting department of the Institute about their intentions, gave investors settlement accounts outside Moscow Architectural Institute for transferring the money meant for building. In addition, the accused concealed the information on concluding the participation agreement and facts that the investors had transferred the money from the academic council of the Institute which is the sole body enabled to decide on use of non-budgetary funds. The contract provided for property accountability of the Architectural Institute before investors. As a result the institute accounts did not receive targeted payments of more than 127 million rubles which were stolen by the accomplices. The house was never completed and professors did not get any apartments.
The accused and their defenders have finished studying the criminal case and in the near future it will be forwarded for the indictment to be approved and further on to court to be tried on the merits.
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