MOSCOW, July 29 The Tverskoy Court of Moscow has received an appeal against the arrest of the former general director of the Military Construction Company (VSK) of the Ministry of Defense Andrei Belkov in a case of fraud with the purchase tomograph, the court reported.
«The court received an appeal from the defense,» the agency's source said.
Last week, the Tverskoy Court of the capital sent Belkov to a pre-trial detention center. He is charged with abuse of office (clause «b» of part 2 of article 285.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
Earlier, the Kommersant newspaper wrote that he was arrested for fraud during the execution of a state defense order while he was the general director of the public-law Military Construction Company, whose work was supervised by former Deputy Minister of Defense Timur Ivanov. We are talking about fraud in the purchase of a tomograph, the cost of which was inflated in the documents.