Their business is gone

The main military department of the Investigative Committee closed the case, one of the defendants of which was the former head of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "St. Petersburg Engineering and Construction Center of the Ministry of Defense" Valery Puzikov, son-in-law of the ex-head of the military department Anatoly Serdyukov. It is reported by Kommersant. Accordingly, the pursuit of the other defendants in the case - top managers of FSUE Valery Sedov and Irina Petukhova - were stopped.

The case was closed after re -qualification of the prosecution from part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code (assignment or embezzlement committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy on an especially large scale), which provides for up to 10 years of the colony, for part 1 of article 201 (abuse of powers), the sanction is up to four years.

In other words, if a serious crime was originally defendants, then after retraining they became accused of moderate crime. This made it possible to apply to Sedov and a petticois amnesty in honor of the 70th anniversary of the victory over Germany. Among other amnesties, it spreads to men over 55 years old and to women aged 50.

Puzikov has not yet reached 55 years, so his persecution was stopped by the expiration of the statute of limitations. According to Article 78 of the Criminal Code, the statute of limitations for medium -sized crimes is six years; Meanwhile, the crime, sane by Serdyukov’s son -in -law, the TFR dates the time more than six years ago.

Thus, the case against all three defendants was terminated on non -rehabilitating grounds.

The main military prosecutor’s office also reports the publication, agreed with the closure of the case.

The surname Puzikova was mentioned in connection with various cases of corruption in the Ministry of Defense, but he received the status of the accused only in the only one of these cases. His excitement became known in January 2014. According to the plot of the case, the son -in -law of Serdyukov, together with Sedov and Petukhova, made fraud as part of the contract of their enterprise for the transport services of the Ministry of Defense. The military department rented 560 foreign cars from the FSUE, which, in turn, were taken by Puzikov for temporary use from firms belonging to his wife. It was claimed that the Ministry of Defense did not actually use the cars, however, FSUE transferred about 8 million rubles to FSUP's wife Puzikov.

In addition, it was stated that persons who did not work there were accepted for a number of posts on the enterprise. Among them were the relatives of Puzikov. The leadership of the FSUE wrote out the "dead souls" of salaries, bonuses, business trips and assigned them. Thus, it was said in the case, Puzikov and Sedov received 4 million rubles.

At the beginning of 2013, it was reported about Puzikov that he had left Russia. However, in March 2014, after he was put on the wanted list, it became known that he voluntarily appeared to the investigator. From Puzikov, they took a recognizance not to leave.

At the beginning of this year, the case came to court. However, on March 1, the Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg at the request of the defendants returned the materials to the prosecutor’s office , pointing out a number of shortcomings. The prosecutor, in turn, sent the case for the investigation.