Ex-head of Russian Defense Ministry research center and his deputy suspected of 500 mln ruble fraud - investigators
MOSCOW. Oct 29 (Interfax) - The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal inquiry against the former general director of the Defense Ministry's economics, information technologies and management systems research center and his deputy, who have been accused of fraud involving 500 million rubles, committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Interfax.
"The ex-director of the Central Scientific Research Institute of Economics, Information Technologies and Management Systems, a state-owned federal unitary enterprise, Andrei Beltov, and his deputy, Dmitry Ostrovsky, are suspected of misappropriating 500 million rubles. The criminal case was opened against them on the counts of large-scale fraud committed by an organized group (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Russian Penal Code)," he said.