Former general director of Russian Space Systems OJSC Yuri Urlichich got a job at Sitronics OJSC. reports this today Interfax .

Urlichich was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Sitronics, part of AFK Sistema. The board of directors was headed by the former president of Sistema, deputy chairman of the board of directors of AFK Alexander Goncharuk.

Urlichich left RKS in November 2012, citing health reasons. Before this, he was first dismissed from the post of chief designer of GLONASS, and then Roscosmos sent a proposal to the Ministry of Economic Development regarding his dismissal from the post of general director of RKS. the new head of Russian Space Systems On February 21, Gennady Raikunov was appointed .

Yuri Urlichich's departure from RKS occurred against the backdrop of an investigation into theft in the development of the GLONASS system. In the summer of 2012, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported the disappearance of 565 million budget rubles allocated for the project. In November, the agency announced that it had identified the theft of 6.5 billion rubles committed during the development of the navigation system.

JSC Sitronics is engaged in the production of telecommunications equipment, microelectronic components and software. In particular, in 2011, one of the company’s subsidiaries, Sitronics KASU CJSC, won a competition to create an intelligent transport system in Moscow based on GLONASS sensors.

The former head of RKS got a job at Sitronics