Workers reportedly try to steal expensive components from Russian defense plant
PERM, Russia. July 14 (Interfax-AVN) - A Russian defense industry company said two of its workers had been detained by police during an attempt to steal expensive nickel-containing components from its manufacturing facility.
The two workers obtained the components, worth a total of more than 900,000 rubles, from a storehouse at the Perm Engine Plant company by getting inside through a window but police who were called to the site detained them before they could leave the plant's premises, the company said in a statement.
Perm Engine Plant manufactures engines for military and civilian aircraft and gas turbine generators for power plants and for the transmission of natural gas. It is part of United Engine-Manufacturing Corporation, which is, in turn, a 100% subsidiary of the Oboronprom defense industry group.
