The Central Federal District Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has finished investigating the criminal case against first deputy head of the city of Serpukhov in Moscow Region Alexey Afanasov and director of the city foundation Revival and Development of Serpukhov Lyubov Voronova. Depending on the role of each one they are charged with the crime under part 5 of article 33, part 3 of article 160 of the RF Penal Code (misappropriation or embezzlement), part 3 of article 30, part 4 of article 159 (fraud).
During the investigation it has been found that in 2006, Voronova with complicity of Afanasov embezzled 550 thousand rubles voluntarily donated by the businessman of the city to the said foundation to build a fence around school No 2 in Serpukhov. In addition, the same year Afanasov fraudulently got hold of the money of an enterprise in Serpukhov, having demanded from the CEO to transfer to the account of the firm under his control 10% of the money the latter got for contract building of school No 12 in Serpukhov, threatening that otherwise he would not pay on time for the work done. But he had no authority to transfer the money as the payment was affected by the administration of Moscow Region. As the result Afanasov got hold of over 13 million rubles.
In 2010, Afanasov attempted to get by fraudulent way 3 million rubles from another businessman claiming that he could ensure the quickest receipt the development documents necessary to start building in Serpukhov, but not intending to do anything for that.
Investigators have gathered enough evidence and the case against Afanasov and Voronova with the approved indictment has been sent to court to be tried on the merits.
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