The court sentenced the accused in the case of theft in the supply of dry rations

The Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced the former top manager of Gryazinsky Food Plant JSC Elvira Smirnova to 4 years in the case of supplying low-quality dry rations to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with damage of 10 billion rubles, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the courtroom.

“Sentence to Smirnova in the form of imprisonment for a term of 4 years to be served in a general regime colony,” judge Konstantin Ochirov announced the verdict.

Smirnova admitted guilt and entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement. Her case was separated into separate proceedings, and the court agreed to consider it in a special manner.

This procedure for making a court decision assumes that the defendant fully admits guilt and insists on considering the case without examining evidence of his involvement in the crime, counting on a less severe punishment.

The same Basmanny Court of Moscow in October will begin to consider the case against the top managers of Gryazinsky Food Plant JSC Alexander Mikhailenko and Valery Kovalevich, as well as businessman Igor Kotelnikov. The latter died in a pre-trial detention center due to heart problems, but remained a defendant in the criminal case.

The plant, under an agreement with Voentorg, supplied it with individual food rations (IRP), food rations for small teams, one-time or intermediate food rations, small-sized food rations and on-board rations for airplane and helicopter crews. The investigation believes that the plant's top managers stole money during the execution of the contract.

According to investigators, the cost of the contracts was inflated due to the use of cheaper raw materials, and the quality of the products did not meet the terms of the contract. The examination considered the dry rations involved in the criminal case prohibited for use. At the same time, the defense argued that all low-quality food was replaced.