As the Cheka-OGPU learned, the damage caused by the actions of an organized group during…

As the Cheka-OGPU learned, the damage from the actions of an organized group during the implementation of government contracts and state defense orders at the Taganrog military enterprise Zvezda-Strela exceeded 600 million rubles. The group includes the general director of the company Vladimir Maslensky, the director of Taganrog Foundry LLC Konstantin Slinko and also the head of the 222nd military representative office of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Andrei Podlesnykh, they have been charged with fraud on an especially large scale. Moreover, all three have been kept under house arrest since May. One of the defendants, Konstantin Slinko, entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement on June 1 with First Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor Yevgeny Ivanov.

On May 17, Slinko was charged with a new episode of particularly large-scale fraud – the investigation found that he, along with other members of the organized group, “prepared and submitted to the Russian Ministry of Defense calculation materials containing deliberately false information about the cost of products supplied by Zvezda-Strela JSC (“Container for product 713” and “Container for product 714”), unreasonably inflating it, on the basis of which four government contracts were concluded and paid for within the framework of the state defense order.” In this episode, 15.2 million rubles were stolen from the Ministry of Defense.

“In addition, according to the resolutions on the initiation of criminal cases combined in one proceeding, the preliminary investigation authorities suspect Slinko of acting as part of an organized group with Maslensky and Podlesnykh, in the period from January 2016 to December 2022, as part of the execution government contracts, stole budget funds totaling over 547 million rubles, and also that he, Maslensky and Podlesnykh, while executing contracts concluded for the purpose of implementing state defense orders, stole funds from the Russian Ministry of Defense in a particularly large amount totaling 63,257,537.57 rubles,” says the court order extending Slinko’s house arrest.

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The director of the Taganrog Foundry will sit in his home in the Rostov region, since it is in this region that further investigative actions are planned.