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Former Executive Director of Roscosmos State Corporation for Quality and Reliability, Vladimir Evdokimov, arrested on charges of multimillion-dollar fraud, found dead in the chamber of the Moscow pre-trial detention center “Vodnik”. This is reported by Interfax.

According to a law enforcement source, the cause of the death of the arrested is criminal "on Evdokimov’s body, two stab wounds in the chest area were found. They allegedly were a cause of death,” the source said.

In connection with the murder in Evdokimov, a criminal case was opened under Article 105 (murder), said the official representative of the Moscow prosecutor's office Elena Rossokhina. A prosecutor’s audit has begun, a strict assessment will be given the actions of officials of the pre -trial detention center. "The city prosecutor’s office immediately organized an audit of the execution of the Federal Law on the detention of suspects and accused of committing a crime regarding the regime and the protection of the investigatedly arrested," she said. "According to the results of the audit, response measures will be unambiguously taken and a fundamental evaluation of the actions of the SIZO-5 officials."

The head of the capital's department of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Sergei Moroz, also appointed an official verification of the death of Evdokimov in jail.

Most likely, his cellmates, and not himself, were involved in the death of Evdokimov, the law enforcement source said . This is evidenced among others and the fact that the probability of inflicting several blows to himself is insignificant. The final and accurate conclusion will be made according to the results of examinations, including a forensic research, ”the source said.

“Previously, as the main version of the death of Vladimir Evdokimov, his murder by persons who feared the possible testimony of them in relation to them in a number of episodes that were not related to the activities of the missile and space industry, which he could have been related to the investigation,” a source familiar with the situation told Interfax that Evdokimov could name their names in the course of cooperation with the investigation and reveal their criminal schemes to the investigation. "

Evdokimov was accused of part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale). The criminal episodes, sane by the “Roscosmos” top manager, date back to the period when he had nothing to do with the space industry, but worked in the aviation industry.

As reported in the TFR, Evdokimov and his accomplices "in 2007-2009 through a number of commercial organizations illegally acquired the rights to state property of OJSC Russian aircraft-building corporation" MiG "worth at least 200 million rubles.

During this period, Evdokimov was held by the post of Deputy Director of the Department of JSC United Aircraft Corporation. Together with him, the former leaders of the Helicopter Service Company Akim Noskov and Alexei Andreev, ex-director of the Scientific and Technical Center CJSC Alexander Zolin, as well as a certain Alexei Ozerov, are held in the case.

In December, the Basmanny Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of Evdokimov and Zolin. Later, the Moscow City Court recognized their imprisonment legal. Ozerov, together with his brother Noskov Egor, who held the post of deputy leader of PJSC Tupolev, is detained in another case of the theft of the property of the MIG MIGS. Noskov and Andreev disappeared from the investigation and put on the international wanted list.