It became known about the arrest of two RAS employees and the deputy director of INTEL in Moscow.

A Moscow court has detained two employees of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and the deputy director of the Institute of Nanotechnology in Electronics, Spintronics and Photonics (INTEL) involved in the bribery case. This was reported by law enforcement agencies on April 21.

"As part of the investigation of a criminal case on receiving bribes by RAS officials from grant candidates for awarding maximum points during the examination of projects, Alexey Molchanov, a consultant at the RAS Office of Scientific and Methodological Guidance and Expert activities, Sergey Sidorenko, a corresponding member of the RAS, and Nikolai Kargin, the first deputy director of INTEL, were arrested," a source in the Russian Academy of Sciences said. an interview with TASS.

According to him, the defendants did not admit their guilt in the crime. It is noted that according to the investigation, Sidorenko and Molchanov, who held the position of head of the department at the Russian Academy of Sciences, personally and through third parties participated in receiving two large-scale bribes from persons applying for grants.

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