The court dismissed the case against ex-minister Mikhail Men

The court dismissed the case against ex-Minister of Construction Mikhail Men due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. In a criminal case, he was threatened with up to 10 years in prison.

The press service of the Moscow courts reported that the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow issued a decision to dismiss the criminal case against the auditor of the Accounts Chamber Mikhail Men, the ex-governor of the Ivanovo Region Pavel Konkov and the managing director of Ivanovsky Broiler Dmitry Grishin. The defendants in the case were accused under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (misappropriation or embezzlement committed on an especially large scale) - it threatens up to ten years in custody.

Mikhail Men’s case would be terminated due to the statute of limitations — law enforcement officers simply would not be in time to finish the investigation of the criminal case and get a guilty verdict on it before the expiration of the ten-year statute of limitations, the publication explained. that Back in November 2020 , Kommersant wrote

Mikhail Men was detained and interrogated on November 13, after Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov asked the Federation Council for permission to conduct investigative actions. We talked about the details of the accusation in detail here . The plot of the case, according to investigators, boils down to the misuse of a federal loan of 700 million rubles with its subsequent theft - the time of the crimes in which I was suspected belonged to the period of his tenure as governor of the Ivanovo region - this is the beginning of 2011.