In the Smolensk region, the FSB prevented fraud in the repair of boiler houses

Employees of the regional FSB and the Investigative Committee revealed a scheme of embezzlement of 1.4 million rubles in the Roslavl and Monastyrshchi districts with the participation of an official of a resource supplying organization and the head of a commercial firm. The defendants concluded a fictitious contract for the installation of equipment for boiler houses, but in fact all the work was performed by the resource-supplying enterprise, and the allocated budget funds were transferred to the account of a third-party company and stolen. According to the materials of the operatives, a criminal case was initiated under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Fraud on an especially large scale”), suspects face up to 10 years in prison.