A new criminal case has been opened against ex-official of the Ministry of Defense Oleg Vasenin
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- Military investigators have opened a new criminal case for abuse of power against the former deputy head of the UISP of the Ministry of Defense Oleg Vasenin, who was previously convicted of bribery.
- The charge is related to the sale of scrap from military units, where the damage to the state is estimated at 80 million rubles.
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Military investigators have opened a new criminal case against the former deputy head of the property management of special projects (UISP) of the Russian Ministry of Defense Oleg Vasenin, who was previously convicted of taking a bribe to six years in a maximum security colony. Kommersant (Kommersant) reports this.
This time, the ex-military department official is charged with abuse of power causing grave consequences. The new charge is related to the same circumstances that appeared in the previous investigation and was classified as fraud on an especially large scale. Vasenin was responsible for the execution of the Ministry of Defense contract concluded in August 2019 for the sale of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap accumulated in military units. Initially, investigators believed that he, by falsifying documents about the cost of recyclable materials, had stolen 240 million rubles from the budget.
However, later the plot of the accusation changed. It followed that the official received bribes from the head of the Translom company, Oleg Panin, so that it would receive the maximum possible volume of scrap exported from military units at a reduced price. Damage to the state is estimated at 80 million rubles.
On April 9, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow sentenced Vasenin to six years in prison for accepting bribes in the amount of 19 million rubles.
