A court in Moscow sent ex-deputy of the Kursk region Vasiliev to jail for two months.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow has sent Maxim Vasiliev, a former deputy of the Kursk Regional Duma of the seventh convocation, to jail for two months. This was announced on April 21 in the press service of the capital's courts of general jurisdiction.

"The investigator's request for a preventive measure in the form of detention against Maxim Sergeevich Vasilyev has been granted," the Telegram channel says.

The defendant is charged under Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Embezzlement or embezzlement committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale").

It is clarified that the court did not satisfy the petition of the accused and his lawyer to choose a milder measure of restraint in the form of house arrest.

Came to the defense: Kursk officials are suspected of embezzling money allocated for the defense of the region

The damage is estimated at more than 3 billion rubles

On January 28, a lawsuit appeared at the disposal of Izvestia, according to which the leadership of the Kursk Region Development Corporation is suspected of large-scale withdrawal of funds pledged to state contracts to ensure the region's defense capability. The heads of the corporation, Vladimir Lukin and Igor Grabin, and Snezhana Martyanova were detained and arrested in this case. In addition to Vasiliev, Yuri Bessonov, an ex-deputy of the Kursk Regional Duma of the Fifth convocation, Martianova's brother, the owner of Energo Resources LLC and Trading House Kursk LLC, and Ivan Utkin, a Moscow businessman, are also involved in criminal activities.