An official of the Ministry of Defense and the general director of a lumber company were arrested in Moscow for theft during the supply of wood to the military in Donbass - Kommersant

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested the deputy director of the military property department of the Ministry of Defense, Vladimir Shishov, and the general director of the RNGS Capital company, Dmitry Levchenko, in the case of embezzlement of funds during the supply of wood to the military in the Donbass. about this . writes Kommersant

The case under the article of fraud on an especially large scale was opened in early October. According to investigators, in October last year Levchenko’s company won a tender for 60 million rubles to supply wood to the Ministry of Defense. It was sent to a war zone, where it was used to build trenches, dugouts and other fortifications. Subsequently, counterintelligence officers and police realized that the cost of lumber supplied to the Ministry of Defense was greatly inflated.

According to preliminary data, the damage is estimated at 27 million rubles. The defendants in the case deny their guilt.

Shishov, before joining the Ministry of Defense in October 2018, worked as deputy head of the Federal Forestry Agency, Kommersant notes. A year and a half after his appointment, President Vladimir Putin awarded him the rank of active state adviser of the third class, which corresponds to the military rank of major general.

According to Kommersant, Dmitry Levchenko is the son of businessman Eduard Levchenko, former assistant to State Duma Deputy Speaker Andrei Isaev. Levchenko Sr. was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison in a fraud case in 2017. The publication writes that for $250 thousand he wanted to assist the management of Renaissance Bank in initiating a criminal case for the theft of more than half a billion rubles from the cash register. After his release, he presumably left Russia.

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