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The Investigative Committee has opened a new criminal case on the fact of embezzlement of budget funds – this time fraud was discovered in the Skolkovo Foundation. According to the IC, which focuses on the audit materials of the Accounting Chamber, in the past, the head of the Skolkovo Finance Department, Kirill Lugovtsev, together with his partner, stole about 24 million rubles through, in fact, fictitious companies. The investigators promise that the inspection will be carried out by officials of the Ministry of Finance.
On Monday, the Investigative Committee announced a new criminal case on embezzlement of state property as part of the implementation of a major state project. This time, the attention of investigators was attracted by the Skolkovo innograd, one of the most ambitious projects of former President Dmitry Medvedev.
As reported on the official website of the department, a criminal case was initiated after the theft of someone else's entrusted property by embezzlement (Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) was revealed during the development of the project.
The case was initiated not in fact, but in relation to specific people – the director of the finance Department of the non-profit organization "Foundation for the Development of the Center for the Development and Commercialization of New Technologies" (Foundation) Kirill Lugovtsev, now working as the CEO of the Russian Energy Agency, the Director General of the customs and financial company "Skolkovo" (TFK "Skolkovo") Vladimir Khokhlov and others.
The UK emphasizes that they have begun proceedings on the basis of inspections of the Accounts Chamber and materials of the FSB of Russia.
As they say in the UK, in 2011, the Foundation for the Development of the Center for the Development and Commercialization of New Technologies created a subsidiary of LLC TFK Skolkovo – the latter's task was to process customs cargo intended for the development of the science city. Kirill Lugovtsev, in turn, had to control the financial activities of the subsidiary. Budget money was allocated for the needs of the established customs company – Lugovtsev, as investigators found out, tried to spend it without losses for himself. For example, Lugovtsev rented the premises for the company from the company Nika LLC – Lugovtsev's parents turned out to be its owners.
The documents accompanying the transaction were drawn up so that Lugovtsev would keep the money withdrawn from the budget even in case of dismissal.
All the money, according to the lease agreement, was transferred in advance three years in advance, and without the right to return it to the tenant in case of termination of the contract. In addition, according to the UK, Lugovtsev and Khokhlov decided to pay for the overhaul of the rented building. In the UK, based on the audit of the Accounting Chamber, it was estimated that Lugovtsev and Khokhlov stole a total of 23,801,100 rubles from Skolkovo.
The very company TFK "Skolkovo" was essentially fictitious. The investigators found that for two years of its existence, only one customs operation was carried out through it. This is despite the fact that there were 10 people on the staff of the company with a salary of 300 to 600 thousand rubles a month.
Now investigators are clarifying the circumstances of the theft, as well as establishing other episodes and officials who could have been involved in the crime. At the same time, the IC makes it clear that within the framework of the case of embezzlement in Skolkovo, new defendants may appear, and from among the officials who were supposed to control how the budget money allocated for innograd is spent. In particular, they emphasize in the UK, the audit will be carried out by officials of the Ministry of Finance.
The Skolkovo Foundation emphasizes that law enforcement agencies were informed in advance about possible violations in the "daughter" of the foundation.
"The Foundation is a little more than two years old. Kirill Lugovtsev left our organization six months ago, in general, he worked at Skolkovo for less than a year. He was removed from his post after an internal audit, which revealed a number of violations," he told the newspaper.En" Skolkovo Vice President for External Communications Alexander Chernov. According to him, the foundation handed over the materials of its own audit to the "competent authorities", as well as to the Accounting Chamber, which is referred to in the UK. "I don't know which way the materials of our inspection went through the state agencies, but in the end they ended up in the Investigative Committee," Chernov stressed. He noted that immediately after the inspection, all operations with budget money carried out by the defendants in the criminal case were blocked. "The amount (of embezzlement – "Newspaper.Ru"), which the Investigative Committee is talking about, is correct, but there was no damage in fact – the fund warned the withdrawal of money," Chernov noted.
And the source of "Gazeta.En" in Skolkovo, he did not rule out that the criminal case, which was announced on Tuesday, may not be the last trial against the fund's employees: "Checks similar to the one on Lugovtsev are carried out constantly. The mood in the fund is such that there will be an appropriate reaction to any fact of abuse."
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