930 million rubles allocated for infrastructure development were stolen in the Kamchatka Territory

Employees of the Main Directorate (GU) of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption (GUEBiPK) The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, together with colleagues from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Kamchatka Territory, identified a number of episodes of embezzlement of funds from the regional budget in excess of 930 million rubles. This was announced on December 30 by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

"The investigator of the investigative unit of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Kamchatka Territory has initiated criminal proceedings on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale." — Ed.)," according to the agency's website.

It is specified that, according to the preliminary investigation, the identities of three suspects in especially large-scale fraud committed by a group of persons by prior agreement have been established. According to the agency, a contractor from St. Petersburg and his accomplices stole over 930 million rubles in 2022-2023, funds were allocated for the development of the region's infrastructure under a state program.

It is noted that at the moment, three elements of the crime have been identified. The first episode is related to the construction of the resort and includes the receipt and withdrawal of an advance payment through proxies in the amount of 684 million rubles, when the cost of the actual work did not exceed 2.4 million rubles. The second episode was the infliction of material damage to a credit institution using false documents. The third episode of theft is related to the reconstruction of a boiler house in the city of Yelizovo, where the accused also acted as a contractor. Repairs were provided from the federal budget. Having received an advance of more than 250 million rubles, the contractor and accomplices squandered funds for purposes unrelated to construction.

It is reported that in order to compensate for the damage, the property of the suspects was seized with a total value of 300 million rubles. The identification of other episodes of the crime and other participants continues.

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On December 30, the Telegram channel of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia reported that the court had found Dmitry Levchenko, head of IFC RNGS Capital LLC, and Andrei Grunin, CEO of Sibai LLC, guilty in the case of multimillion-dollar embezzlement while fulfilling a state defense order. Levchenko and Grunin, acting together with other representatives of contracting organizations, provided deliberately false information about the cost of the work, which allowed them to steal more than 500 million rubles of budget funds.

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