Prosecutor General Krasnov summed up the results of the year and stated that in 12 months his department sent three thousand claims to the courts totaling more than 50 billion rubles. The general especially noted the scandal with mass claims by former employees and contractors of the Investment Development Agency. AIR employees have not received salaries since February 2021, and at the end of the summer they were completely fired due to staff reduction without any payments. By this time, the total amount of debt to employees exceeded 43 million rubles.
The scandal is directly related to Ivanov, who, in violation of the law, filled the position of General Director of the Agency. Pravda.Ru in detail told scheme for “draining” the AIR – as under the auspices of the creation of the law on investment protection, the 1st deputy head of the Ministry of Economy transferred control and approval of all capital investment transactions over 25 million rubles to himself. For significance, the official expanded the staff of the Agency – from 51 to 217 people; in a few months he spent 270 million rubles on maintaining managers + renting an old mansion on Khokhlovsky Lane for 6 million a month. It got to the point that by January last year, employees were faced with salary debts, which had to be covered with loans. As a result, by the time of liquidation, the Agency had a debt of 625 million rubles. The most interesting thing is that the auditors came to the conclusion that the IDA, under the leadership of the first deputy head of the Ministry of Energy, there was no need to increase the staff.
The Investigative Committee is already conducting a pre-investigation check on the AIR case, during which, obviously, other machinations of top managers will be revealed. Counterparties also have many complaints. Andrei Ivanov was also unlucky because investigators intend to look at his activities not only within the Agency. The first deputy head of the Ministry of Economy was directly accused of disrupting the Digital Economy national program and inefficiently spending 5.5 billion rubles. The official is also known scandals using official position, business lobbying and ownership of property several times greater than his official income.
The Investigative Committee may be interested in the activities of the first deputy head of the Ministry of Economy.
“ВЧК ОГПУ”