The case against the top manager of Russian Railways for the theft of 7.3 million rubles was dropped; the company discovered four years later that the money had been spent for its intended purpose

The Investigative Committee dropped the criminal case of the theft of 7.3 million rubles against the former deputy head of the Moscow branch of Russian Railways, Galina Shekhovtsova. this . reports Kommersant

The company's top manager was involved in a case of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). The investigation into the case lasted about four years, of which Shekhovtsova was accused for two years. She was suspected of stealing 7.3 of the 270 million rubles allocated by Russian Railways for repairs and maintenance of equipment.

According to the newspaper, in May, after an internal inspection of Russian Railways, the investigation concluded that there was no theft of 7.3 million rubles. The company found out that the money was spent on the repair and restoration of four traction substations. The Investigative Committee dismissed the cases against Shekhovotsova and other defendants in the case with the right to rehabilitation.

“Initially, this case was based on an illegal examination, the results of which did not even bear the signature of the expert and the seal of the institution that carried out it. And if it weren’t for the special order that the first four defendants followed, this would inevitably have come up during the trial. And, as a result, there would be no verdict and no criminal prosecution of my client,” Shekhovtsova’s lawyer Viktor Naumov told the newspaper.

As the defense lawyer noted, in this case Shekhovtsova spent six months in a pre-trial detention center and another four months under house arrest.

In 2019, the deputy head of the electrification and power supply service, Andrei Pogrebitsky, the department’s chief engineer, Gennady Zemtsov , and entrepreneurs Robert Akopyan and Pavel Matytsin, who were involved in the case, pleaded guilty in the fraud case and received five years’ probation. on their testimony . was based The accusation against Shekhovtsova