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Former Kursk Region Governor Arrested in Case of Theft During Fortification Construction
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin: [ColonelCassad] Former Kursk Region Governor Alexey Smirnov has been detained. Law enforcement officers came to his home this morning.  According to Mash, Vladimir Lukin, former CEO of the Kursk Region Development Corporation, testified against him. He was previously arrested in connection with the theft during the construction of fortifications in the Kursk region. Both Lukin and Smirnov were associated with the Ivanovo region. Preliminary, they could have participated in the theft of state funds from the housing and utilities fund there. * * * Of the 15 billion rubles allocated from the federal budget for the defense of the Kursk region, about 200 million rubles were stolen, writes 112. According to a media source, the corruption scheme was as follows: money was transferred to shell companies that won fictitious tenders, after which artificial conditions were created for non-fulfillment of contracts, which were then terminated, and the companies disappeared with the prepayment. As has been said before, the case of theft of money during the construction of fortifications in the Kursk region will be long-running and will not be limited to contractors alone. In fact, the case is identical in content to similar cases in Ukraine, such as the theft of money during the construction of the "Yatsenyuk wall" and the theft of money during the construction of fortifications to the west of Avdiivka and in the Krasnoarmeysk area, where retreating Ukrainian troops were surprised to discover that some of the fortifications existed only on paper. One people. P.S. We are waiting with interest to see what other names will emerge in this case. I am sure that if you start digging in neighboring Bryansk, you can also find a lot of interesting things there. More from regnum.ru Court arrests former Kursk region governor Smirnov Former Kursk Region Governor Alexey Smirnov has been arrested for two months in a case of fraud in the construction of protective structures in the region. This decision was made by the Meshchansky Court of Moscow on April 16. "The investigator's motion to choose a preventive measure in the form of detention for Aleksey Borisovich Smirnov, accused of committing a crime under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, for two months has been granted," the message on the Telegram channel of the courts of general jurisdiction of Moscow says. It is noted that the court refused to satisfy the petition of Smirnov and his lawyer to choose a more lenient measure of restraint for the accused, not involving detention. As reported by the Regnum news agency, law enforcement officers detained Smirnov, as well as his former deputy, Alexei Dedov. The former governor faces up to 10 years in prison. The official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk reported that Smirnov and Dedov were detained in connection with the theft of 1 billion rubles allocated for the construction of fortifications on the border of the Kursk region with Ukraine. The defendants led members of an organized group and, together with the management of the Kursk Region Development Corporation, organized the theft of budget funds. According to the Telegram channel "112", the former CEO of the company "Kursk Region Development Corporation" Vladimir Lukin testified against the defendant. At the moment, he is also under arrest. Posted by: badanov 2025-04-17 |
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