Military financiers sent to the colony

Yekaterinburg garrison military court on Thursday handed down a sentence four former financiers have already disbanded the 5 th Army Air Force and Air Defense (Air Force and Air Defense). According to investigators, they are taking advantage of the reorganization, was given about 24 million rubles. However, the court convicted the three defendants only by sending them to the colony for the theft of 15.9 million rubles. In addition, the Central Military District Attorney received a private ruling on the continuing investigation. Wrote on Friday, May 13, the newspaper Kommersant. Financial fraud by the former head of financial units of the 5 th Army Air Force and Air Defense (she herself had been disbanded in the framework of which began in 2009, military reform) were identified in 2010. Then, against the chief financial and economic life of 5-th Army Lt. Col. Dmitry Emelin, Chief Financial Inspection Association Sergei Heads, Chief Financial Officer in / h N03311 (Ekaterinburg), Alexander Shutaleva and occupied a similar position at a / h N51946 (Chelyabinsk), Alexander was Bogoslavskih A criminal case under Art. 159 of the Criminal Code ("Fraud"). As followed from the reasoning of the verdict to be over three hours was read by Judge Igor Shargorodsky, military accountants in 2007 and 2009, misappropriated a total of about 24 million rubles. Belonging to the Defense Ministry. According to investigators, the funds in the accounts of the military units that were part of a 5 th Army. The record says that accountants forged signature management units and withdraw the money supposedly for the payment of salaries shrinking the military, as well as for household needs parts. Thus, it is noted on the record, they managed to steal 8 million rubles. with accounts in / h N 03,311 and 15.9 million rubles. from accounts in the / h N 51946. According to investigators, all the defendants were clear role in the embezzlement. So, head of financial services, parts Shutalev Alexander & Alexander Bogoslavskih withdraw money. Auditor Sergei Rollins intentionally did not notice of withdrawal, and the chief accountant of the 5 th Army Dmitry Emelin was to destroy documents to withdraw funds that have been discovered cash shortage. All the stolen funds, according to investigators, were distributed among the defendants and the head of a / h N 51946 Alex Tortoiseshell (committed suicide, was discovered when the fact of shortage). Evaluating the evidence collected by investigators, the court fully recognized the contested episode of the theft of 15.9 million rubles. from the accounts of Chelyabinsk. And in an episode of stealing money from a / h N 03311 court found no corpus delicti. As a result, Alexander Shutalev yesterday was entirely justified. The remaining defendants were found guilty of fraud, and they were assigned to four to five years imprisonment in a penal colony. The maximum sentence was appointed Dmitry Emelin, which the court considered the instigator of all thefts. The defendants themselves, who were taken into custody in the courtroom, talking to the press did not. However, their lawyers have called the course of the "objective". "The question of whether or not to appeal the verdict, we will decide after discussing it with our defendants," - explained to Kommersant's lawyer Dmitry Emelin Valery Zarechnoye. It is also not decided on appeal, and representatives of public prosecution, which requested the parties to the debate over the defendants sentences ranging from five to six years in prison.