Court receives investigators' request to remand ex-Rushydro head Dod into custody
MOSCOW. June 23 (Interfax) - Investigators are asking the court to remand former head of Rushydro Yevgeny Dod in custody as part of a 73.2-million-ruble fraud case, the press service of Moscow's Basmanny Court told Interfax.
"The court has received a petition from preliminary investigation agencies asking that Dod be remanded in custody as a restraining measure," court spokesperson Yunona Tsaryova said.
The request will be considered on Thursday, she said.
Investigators want head of corporate accounting at RusHydro Dmitry Finkel to be remanded in custody as well.
Charges of large-scale fraud have already been brought against the two men, she said.
Dod was detained as part of a fraud inquiry and is suspected of large-scale misappropriation, Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Interfax on Wednesday.
Finkel was detained together with Dod, Markin said.
The information available to investigators indicates that "Dod and Finkel, acting in collusion with as yet unidentified persons, misappropriated RusHydro's assets on a very large scale."
"After the RusHydro financial report was approved, the aforementioned people drew up and Dod personally signed the order 'On special bonuses for OJSC RusHydro board members on the results of the year of 2013', under which he assigned a special bonus to himself in the amount of 353.21 million rubles, illegally overstating the amount of the bonus by no less than 73.2 million rubles," Markin said.
"I would like to highlight the fact that the circumstances of this crime have nothing to do with the current management of RusHydro, even less its activity in general. It is [about] the fraudulent activities committed only by Yevgeny Dod and his accomplice," Markin said.