The Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has finished investigating a criminal case against Sergey Maresov and Sergey Toporov. They are charged with a crime under paragraphs “a” and “b” of part 2 of article 285.1 of the RF Penal Code (misuse of budgetary funds committed by a group in conspiracy on an especially massive scale).
According to investigators, in 2007, Maresov who then was deputy chief and later chief of The Construction Customer Center of the Russian Interior Ministry, spent 27 million rubles of budgetary finds on the purposes not corresponding to the conditions under which they had been allocated, by paying under the Program “Creation of single information and communication system of bodies of internal affairs” (hereinafter the Program) under the state contract, training of the employees of the Russian Interior Ministry, which was outside the said Program. In addition, in 2008, Maresov involved in the crime his deputy Toporov, after which they misused about 15 million rubles from the federal budget on the purposes not corresponding to the conditions under which it had been allocated, by again paying for the training of Interior Ministry personnel.
The crime was revealed due to an inspection conducted by the RF Chamber of Accounts together with officers of the Russian Federal Security Service to check the implementation of the Program.
The investigators have gathered enough evidence, therefore the criminal case with the approved indictment has been sent to court to be tried on the merits.
Head of Media Relations V.I. Markin
PDF version 
DOC version
