A fraud case was initiated against four top managers in Vorkuta

A criminal case on fraud in the amount of Br30 million has been initiated against four top managers of one of the resource supplying companies in Vorkuta, the Komi Republic. This was reported on December 2 in the regional department of the Investigative Committee (IC) of the RF Telegram.

The managers are accused of embezzlement of money under fictitious contracts (part 4 of article 160, part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and unreasonable increase in wages (part 1 of article 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

"The criminal case was initiated on the basis of materials collected by the prosecutor's office of the region together with the FSSB of Russia in the Komi Republic and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Komi Republic. At present, investigators of the ICR are conducting investigative and procedural actions aimed at consolidating the evidence base", - specified in the message.

According to the investigation, the defendants, who held managerial positions in one of the resource supplying organizations of the city, in the period from 2022 to 2024 stole from the company at least 30 million rubles through the conclusion of fictitious contracts for the performance of work, as well as unjustified overstatement of wages. Two of the accused were arrested.

Earlier in the day it was reported that the former assistant of Dr. Andrei Kurpatov Alexey Ievsky was sentenced to six years of general regime colony for major fraud. It was specified that the accused from May 2020 to August 2021 stole more than 33 million rubles, posing as a buyer of Kurpatov's property, including a share in an apartment and four land plots.