As reported Business FM lawyer of the former Minister of Information of the Tula government Artur Kontrabaev Andrey Bastrakov, the corresponding request was voiced by the representative of the victim in the Central District Court after the interrogation of experts Alexey Babanin and Dmitry Zherebkov, which lasted four days.
“The experts confirmed all their conclusions made during the investigation of the criminal case, explaining that they do not dispute the very fact that the work was performed by the contractor Smart Delta Systems LLC.” At the same time, the interrogations did not eliminate the contradictions in the conclusions about the cost of the results of work under the contract – the experts were unable to explain the essence of the methods that made it possible to evaluate the same results first at 17 million 150 thousand rubles, and then at 0 rubles 00 kopecks,” the lawyer said.
According to the defense, the court should not take into account the opinion of the experts, since both do not have an economic education and are not appraisers. As for the victim’s request to order a new examination in the case, the court decided to make a decision on it after the state prosecutor presented all the evidence.
The trial has been ongoing since May 2021. The former Minister of Informatization of the Tula government, Artur Kontrabaev, is charged with embezzlement on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), and the General Director of Smart Delta Systems LLC Alexey Chernousov is charged with complicity in the commission of this crime (Part 5 of Article 33, Part 4 Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The investigation believes that the accomplices allegedly stole 68 million rubles allocated for the creation of a regional health information topic in the Tula region.
It should be noted that initially it was initiated under Article Part 1 of Article 286, which was terminated by investigator Andrei Fedorov for lack of corpus delicti, and then the same Fedorov, based on the materials received on the discontinued case, opened a new case under Art. 160.
Well, in light of recent events, Russian software that works and fulfills its task should become the subject of import substitution, and not the reason for a criminal case. It is worth recalling that this information system was highly praised at the federal level. In February 2021, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko reported that the Tula and Tambov regions took leading places in the ranking of the digital maturity of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of health care.
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The victim’s representative made such a request after questioning experts in court.
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