The director of the Aeroflot department was arrested in the fraud case. RBC: His department was engaged in the purchase and leasing of aircraft

Khoroshevsky Court of Moscow arrested the director of the Department of Planning and Development of the Aeroflot Air Air vessels Mikhail Minaev. He was detained for a period until August 8. According to the source of RBC, the Department of Minaev was engaged in the purchase and leasing of aircraft.

Minaev is a person involved in the case of particularly large fraud. He has already been charged.

In May, a former deputy director of the Aeroflot company for strategy, service and marketing Andrei Panov was arrested in absentia on similar charges (large fraud).

Earlier, Panov spoke about the reasons for his departure from Russia after the start of the war in a conversation with the Wall Street Journal. “I decided that working in a state -owned company is simply impossible. The country has changed in just one week, ”he said.

Most of the aircraft of Russian airlines belong to Western Lisingagners, usually from Ireland. After the start of the war, these companies began to massively recall the aircraft from leasing, so in early March, the Federal Air Transport Agency recommended that Russian airlines deliver all international flights due to fears of mass arrests of aircraft abroad: from the beginning of the war, at least 78 aircraft of Russian airlines were arrested abroad.