The son of the ex-governor of the Irkutsk region Levchenko was arrested in the case of inflating the cost of imported elevators by 185 million rubles

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sent Andrei Levchenko, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, to a pre-trial detention center in the case of the theft of 185 million rubles in the supply of elevators from abroad. this . reports RIA Novosti

The son of the former regional governor was detained a day earlier and transported from Irkutsk to Moscow. He is accused of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). According to the news agency, Levchenko did not admit guilt.

The Investigative Committee found that Levchenko and the director of the Zvezda company Oleg Hamulyak, arrested in November 2019, overestimated the cost of imported elevators for major renovations of houses in Irkutsk by 185 million rubles. Thus, the investigation found, they caused damage to the state in the amount of 185 million rubles.

The investigator explained that Hamulyak should be sent to a pre-trial detention center by his connection with the governor of the Irkutsk region Sergei Levchenko and his son Andrei. The latter, according to the investigator, “actually exercises operational management of Zvezda LLC.” On the day resignation of Governor Hamulyak’s , he was transferred to house arrest.