Participants in the supply of substandard soup rations to the Defense Ministry have had their arrest extended for three months

The Basmanny court of Moscow has extended the period of detention of ex-heads of the Gryazinsky food factory Alexander Mikhaylenko, Valery Kovalevich and Elvira Smirnova, who supplied the Ministry of Defense (MoD) with low-quality army dry rations. This was reported to "Izvestia" in the courtroom on December 16.

The investigation noted that for the investigation of the criminal case it is also necessary to interrogate the employees of the Defense Ministry and the Gryazinsky food factory.

The court decided to extend the arrest until March 18, 2025.

On the eve it became known that the damage caused to the Ministry of Defense (MoD) of Russia in the case of the supply of low-quality army dry rations amounted to at least 1.3 billion rubles.

On September 11, it was reported that the unidentified suspects in a particularly large embezzlement related to the case of dry rations could have previously escaped from law enforcers outside the Russian Federation. The documents noted that the businessman Igor Kotelnikov, accused in the case, could have "absconded from the preliminary investigation and court, including by traveling to a foreign state."

Kotelnikov was detained in June, he was arrested. On July 13, it was reported that the man died in SIZO-4 "Medved" due to cardiac arrest. The businessman was not found guilty.

It is specified that Kotelnikov was connected with the companies LLC "Konservpaklam", LLC "GPK-Prodtara" and LLC "Bruno", which appear in the criminal case of ex-deputy head of the Ministry of Defense Dmitry Bulgakov.