A court in Moscow arrested the leadership of the All-Russian Society of the Deaf in an embezzlement case

The Moscow petty bourgeois court arrested the president of the All-Russian Society of the Deaf (VOG) Stanislav Ivanov in the case of embezzlement (part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code), reports the press service of the city’s courts of general jurisdiction.

The other defendants in the case - the vice-president of the Vog Venus Gaulston, the assistant to the president and chairman of the Novosibirsk branch of the society Mikhail Bragin and the former vice-president of the organization Vadim Ivanchenko - were also sent into custody by the court. In the videos published by the press service, it is clear that the court decision is duplicated for the accused in sign language

As TASS was told in court, the investigation believes that the accused committed embezzlement by alienating VOG real estate at a reduced cost, causing significant damage to the organization. The detention of the leaders of the All-Russian Society of the Deaf became known on February 20.

• In March 2023, the former head of the company, Valery Rukhledev, was found guilty of embezzling more than 50 million rubles from the organization’s funds. He was sentenced to seven years in a general regime colony.