Deputy General Director of the Roscosmos state corporation Oleg Frolov was arrested in the case of fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the main directorate of the Investigative Committee.
The press service of Roscosmos also confirmed the detention of the employee, Interfax reports.
As the Investigative Committee clarified, in the case there are two more defendants — an individual entrepreneur and a representative of a commercial organization. They were also charged and a preventive measure was chosen in the form of detention.
“Frolov, using his official position, entered into a criminal conspiracy with two other accomplices in the crime,” investigators believe. As a result, during the execution of the contract, they stole “at least 435 million rubles” from budget funds when purchasing equipment.