Russia (bbabo.net), - One of the high-ranking employees of the Russian Ministry of Defense is suspected of committing a corruption crime. We are talking about the head of the Radio Engineering Troops of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) of the Russian Federation, Major General Andrei Koban.
According to some reports, already the former. He is a defendant in a criminal case on taking a bribe on an especially large scale - Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. According to the investigation, the amount of the bribe is 5 million rubles. For what exactly the general received it or tried to get it, is not yet known. It is only known that the general director of the Nizhny Novgorod Research Institute of Radio Engineering acted as the bribe-giver.
Today the 235th garrison military court will consider the petition of the investigation to extend the arrest of Koban. This means that he was detained earlier, and the measure of restraint associated with the conclusion has already been chosen in relation to him. That is, at least 2 months have passed since the beginning of the investigation. But it became known about this high-profile corruption case only today. According to news agencies, the case was opened in November last year. Then he was arrested.
However, Andrey Zenkov, a spokesman for the Main Military Prosecutor's Office, notes that the investigation is still "at the very beginning." "Perhaps later, when all the necessary investigative actions are carried out, new episodes will appear in the case," TASS quoted him as saying.
According to the materials read out in court, Koban pleads not guilty. However, the investigation claims that the involvement of the major general in the bribe is confirmed by the testimony of witnesses, as well as by the data of operational-search activities carried out with the participation of FSB operatives.
The court reported that Koban had already been charged under the article on accepting a bribe on an especially large scale. He faces up to 15 years in prison with a fine of up to 70 times the amount of the bribe. The court has already seized the property of the accused.
Andrey Koban was appointed to the post of Chief of the Radio Engineering Troops in 2015. The radio engineering troops are a branch of the Aerospace Forces that are on combat duty for air defense, perform tasks to protect the state border in the airspace.
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