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In Primorye, the Cosmodrome Contractor was sentenced to 5 years
The court in Primorye sentenced to 5 years in prison of the former general director of the Ussuri Pacific Mostocuial Most -Building Company Viktor Grebnev. His company was a subcontractor at the construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome. He himself was previously condemned conditionally, but the state prosecution appealed the sentence and achieved real punishment.
The regional court noted that Grebnev was found guilty of embezzlement on an especially large scale using official position and deliberate bankruptcy. According to the investigation, being the director of TMK and using his official position, he ordered the cash entered by him in the amount of over 407 million rubles. And then he was engaged in the deliberate bankruptcy of his enterprise.
During bankruptcy, the company had problems with the payment of salaries, and during the investigation of the case the company’s property worth about 300 million rubles was arrested. The representative of the court also clarified that in addition to criminal liability, Grebnev will be obliged to pay a fine of 200 thousand rubles. He will serve his sentence in a general regime colony.
The Pacific Most -Building Company was a subcontractor for the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome. In 2015, her employees during the direct line with the President of the Russian Federation turned to Vladimir Putin for help.
On November 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated at a meeting with the government that at the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome, "failed to restore order." According to him, dozens of criminal cases and court decisions did not stop theft on national projects. “It was said a hundred times - work transparently, large money is allocated, the project is practically nationwide! No, they steal - hundreds of millions, hundreds of millions!”, The president said.
- The construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region has been underway since 2012. Now 14 out of 19 objects have been completed. In total, 91 billion rubles were allocated for the construction of the facility. According to the Kremlin, 11 billion was stolen out of this money. Only 3.5 billion rubles managed to return.
- During the construction, the Prosecutor General’s Office revealed more than 17 thousand violations of the law and instituted more than 140 criminal cases related to the construction of the facility.
- In November 2019, the Investigative Committee of Russia said that 42 cases were transferred to the courts on theft during the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome, 58 people were convicted of them. Another 12 criminal cases are investigated.