Convicted of embezzlement from the Ministry of Defense found cash worth a billion rubles

Cash, including in foreign currency, worth more than a billion rubles was found from the former top manager of Gryazinsky Food Plant JSC Elvira Smirnova as part of an investigation into the case of the supply of low-quality dry rations to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the Basmanny Court of the capital.

Today the court sentenced Smirnova to four years in prison and recovered more than 10 billion rubles from her in favor of the injured party - the Russian Ministry of Defense.

As it became known from the data announced in court, during a search in the capital apartment of the defendant, 159 million rubles, 115 thousand dollars and 32 thousand euros were seized. 8.9 million dollars, 1.4 million euros and 10 million rubles were seized from the safe deposit box that Smirnova rented. All these funds were seized; the Basmanny Court of the capital on Monday retained interim measures.

Smirnova’s case was separated into separate proceedings, as she admitted guilt and entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement.

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 top managers of the plant located in the Lipetsk region stole money during the execution of the contract.