Today Main Military Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has started a criminal case against former deputy CEO of Saint-Petersburg Engineering and Technical Center of the Defense Ministry (hereinafter the Center) Valery Puzikov. He is suspected of crimes under part 4 of article 159 of the RF Penal Code (fraud committed by a group of people in a preliminary conspiracy and on an especially massive scale) and part 4 of article 160 (misappropriation and embezzlement committed by a group of people in a preliminary conspiracy and on an especially massive scale).
It has been found that the Center was executing a state contract on providing vehicles to military command bodies of the Russian Defense Ministry. According to the documents the Ministry rented from the Center Toyota Land Cruiser 78, Mercedes-Benz GL 320 4 Matic, Porsche Cayenne Turbo, Hummer and BMW 760LI, which were then taken from affiliated commercial enterprises for temporary use by Puzikov. Although the Ministry hardly used the vehicles, from 2010 to 2013 the Center transferred to commercial organizations over 8 million rubles.
In addition, the positions of a manager, assistant and nurse were occupied by people, who basically did not do their job. Knowing this the top officials still signed orders to pay them wages, bonuses and compensations for working trips. These actions caused the Center a loss of over 4 million rubles.
Preliminary investigation is ongoing.
Head of Media Relations V.I. Markin
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