Moscow sentenced defendants in a case of embezzlement in the construction of bunkers

The 2nd Western District Military Court of Moscow on Friday, December 13, sentenced Dmitry Pipko, former deputy general director of Atlas LLC, and Andrey Epifantsev, ex-general director of M-Stroy enterprise, to seven and three years in a general regime colony in the case of embezzlement during the execution of a contract to build bunkers for the Russian Defense Ministry.

"To assign Pipko a punishment of seven years' imprisonment with serving time in a general regime colony with a fine of 1.5 million rubles. Epifantsev to assign three years of general regime colony with a fine of 500 thousand rubles," - reports the verdict TASS.

It is established that the defendants overstated the volumes and prices of non-existent materials and equipment in documents, in the period from the fall of 2020 to the spring of 2021. It was also revealed the destruction of evidence by the defendants: the removal of servers and the destruction of cell phones in a microwave.

The defendants were credited with time in custody and house arrest. Both partially pleaded guilty and reimbursed part of the damage.

Pipko was also recovered an additional 75 million rubles on the claim of the main department of troop arrangement, and both of them - 1.803 billion rubles on the claim of the Ministry of Defense. In addition, their property worth about Br50 million was arrested.

Earlier, on September 17, it was reported that for eight months of 2024, almost 500 criminal cases on crimes in the defense industrial complex (DIC) and the execution of the state defense order were initiated. According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the largest number of such cases is being investigated in Moscow and the Moscow region, as well as in Udmurtia, Tula and Samara regions.