
The Moscow City Court softened the sentence to four convicts in the theft of 1.3 billion rubles during the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome.
The court re -qualified the prosecution, reduced the deadlines and changed the colony regime from strict to general. In addition, the court recounted the sentences from calculating the day in the pre -trial detention center for a day and a half in the colony, write RIA Novosti .
SR in mobile SR on Instagram Wed FacebookConvicted to Evgeny Degtyarev was released right in the courtroom "for serving sentences." According to lawyer Ruslan Zalyuzhny, the charge was re -qualified for an article on entrepreneurial fraud. According to him, in connection with the softening of the sentence, the second and third convicts will be released 1-2 months after Degtyareva, and Sergey Degtyarev-six months later.
In February, all four were found guilty of fraud and the legalization of abducted funds by an organized group on an especially large scale: they were assigned from 4.5 to 8 years of colony.
The Volga-Vyatka company was a subcontractor "VIP-Stroyening", who won a competition for the construction of roads and society near the cosmodrome. The company spent an advance from the budget on paying off its own debts and illegal issuing loans. Sergei Degtyarev, according to the prosecution, issued large companies to other companies at interest. As a result, out of almost 2 billion rubles, the defendants stole more than 1.3 billion.
In criminal cases of theft during the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome, the construction of which started in 2011, 13 sentences were already issued. The first criminal cases of theft were opened in 2015, after the mass complaints of the workers of the cosmodrome about non -payment of salaries.