MOSCOW, 29 Mar. The court arrested Sergey Volkov, head of the department from the maritime department of the Russian Guard, in a criminal case on the purchase of faulty Orel-UAV complexes to protect the Crimean bridge, the correspondent reports. .
On the eve of the detention of Sergei Volkov said the head of the Duma Committee on Information Policy Alexander Khinshtein. According to him, an employee of the Russian Guard organized the supply of faulty weapons at obviously inflated prices.
According to the Investigative Committee, the defendant agreed on the supply of complexes with «degraded» characteristics. At the same time, he was warned at the plant that the purchased Orel-UAVs had a truncated functionality that did not allow them to detect small-class drones.
As the prosecutor noted, as a result, the Russian Guard refused to use these complexes a month after they were put into operation.
Volkov's lawyer, in turn, said that his client did not have a radio engineering education and «was only a business executive.» The lawyer claims that the problem with the Orel-UAV was the missing additional unit.
«The manufacturer of the complex is a monopolist in this market, and the missing additional unit, which is engaged in the fight against aircraft, was not part of the modernized complex,» he said.
Judging by the public procurement website, the supply contract » Orel-UAV» concluded in October 2020, and the shipment of the complexes was to take place in December 2021. We are talking about the amount of 395.4 million rubles, which is imputed to the colonel as damages. Volkov is charged under the article «Abuse of official powers». beglov-1860489715.html» data-title=»The court arrested FTS General Beglov in the case of taking a bribe»>