Prosecutors revealed inappropriate spending 500 million rubles in East – RIA Novosti

17:1714.10.2016

(updated: 20:49 14.10.2016)

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MOSCOW, Oct 14 — RIA Novosti. Performers of state contracts held accountable for inefficient spending of 500 million rubles in the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome, reported on the website of the Chief military Prosecutor’s office on Friday.

the Department reports that “in Blagoveshchensk, the military Prosecutor of the garrison when checking it out that the head of one of the enterprises, the General contractor at Spetsstroy Russia in violation of the contractual relationship for the construction of a complex for processing construction waste at the cosmodrome East have listed an advance payment to the contractor has not fulfilled obligations under previous payments, wrongfully increasing the advance up to 80%”.

It “not only resulted in inefficient spending of budget funds in the amount of half a billion rubles, but the failure of the timing of construction of the said facility,” the Agency notes.

“According to the materials of the military prosecutors, the unscrupulous executors of the state contracts prosecuted. Measures were taken to refund to the state the caused damage”, — stated in the message.

Criminal cases involving embezzlement and misappropriation of budget funds in the construction of the East, formerly excited repeatedly. So, in October, the press service of the Annunciation city court reported that two employees of construction companies supplying the spaceport building materials, which conspired and stole more than 12 million rubles.

were prosecuted, the former CEO of CJSC “Pacific bridge construction company” (TMK), Viktor Grebnev, who, according to the investigation, from 2012 to fall 2014 has concluded obviously unprofitable for TMC contracts of suretyship, thereby stealing more than 288 million roubles, and also concluded a number of treaties that led to the TMK causing damage totaling more than 130 million rubles. In April to three years and three months imprisonment was sentenced in April, another former CEO of TMK Igor Nesterenko, who, as found by the court, kidnapped 104,5 million rubles.

In embezzlement during the construction of the cosmodrome accused the head of the legislative Duma of Khabarovsk territory Victor Chudov and entrepreneur Michael Chrisman stolen, according to investigators, 106 million rubles. In March the military Prosecutor of the Eastern military district reported on the disclosure of fraud are: the subcontractor, bribing the General contractor during the construction of the cosmodrome for a supposedly perfect work, received a budget of 100 million rubles.

the Vostochny Cosmodrome is being built near the city of Tsiolkovsky (formerly the village of Uglegorsk) in the Amur region in 2012. He will become the first national cosmodrome of civilian purposes and will ensure independent access of Russia into space. Historic first launch of the carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1 a” with the East with three satellites was successfully completed on April 28.