Chief Military Prosecutor: they steal in such volumes that they do not have time to spend
Deputy The Prosecutor General also said that the military prosecutor’s office had identified hundreds of cases of concealment in the declarations of the representatives of the command of property and income information. The head of the military prosecutors at the same time noted that if you do not take into account the scope of theft and corruption, then the criminogenic situation in the army has stabilized as a whole.
According to Fridinsky, some military officials who violated the law paid for it with their freedom. Over the past year and a half, more than 1 of thousands of officials, including 18 generals, have been convicted for corruption crimes. About a third of the convicts were sentenced to real terms of imprisonment.
A significant increase in bribery over the past year has been noted by the Chief Military Prosecutor. Sergey Fridinsky linked this tendency with the pernicious influence of the “realities in the economy” on the “motivation of service” of officials.
According to the head of the military prosecutor’s office, since the beginning of 2011, 250 cases of receiving a bribe have been revealed. The damage from corruption crimes in this case amounted to more than 3 billion rubles.
The interlocutor of the agency gave specific examples of these crimes. Thus, military prosecutors revealed multi-million embezzlements that were committed by former leaders of the Center for Electromagnetic Compatibility Analysis of the FSUE "Voentelecom". "It would seem that nothing new, but the scale is impressive," - said the head of department. According to Fridinsky, "enterprising commanders stole about 700 million rubles from the state."
Fridinsky said that the prosecutor's office found out that back in 2005, the heads of Voentelecom together with commercial structures had developed and implemented a fraudulent scheme to “withdraw” money intended for settlement, in terms of compatibility of military and civilian communications. The criminal group was headed by Dmitry Funtov, the former head of this Center, and Sergey Luchaninov, his first deputy. They disappeared from the investigation and are currently wanted.
The investigation has data that hundreds of millions of rubles were illegally transferred by Voentelecom to the accounts of companies. They were signed "fake" contracts for settlements. However, these works were carried out by the communication units of the Ministry of Defense. "Public funds, therefore, were" sawn "between the" partners "and scattered into their pockets," said the head of the GWP.
For these funds obtained by illegal means, criminals purchased real estate and expensive cars. From the revelations of one of the defendants of this high-profile case, you can get an idea of the extent of theft. During his search during the search approximately 20 million rubles were found in various currencies. As it turned out during the interrogation, the money was intended for "pocket expenses". When they asked him why the money was not spent, the owner admitted that he simply could not think of what to buy with them.
Earlier it was reported that the Moscow Garrison Military Court in October 2011 of the year for embezzlement, the size of which amounted to 211 million rubles, sentenced to imprisonment Valery Smolnikov, the former deputy head of Voentelekom, one of the participants in the criminal group. Various terms of imprisonment were also received by his accomplices. Investigation of another criminal case of this series - on the theft of 475 million rubles - against merchants and former leaders of the Center "Voentelekom" continues in the present.
380 security officials were hiding information about apartments, business and cars
In an interview with Interfax, S. Fridinsky reported that 380 officials from various law enforcement agencies, including 6 generals, provided inaccurate information about their property and income for 2010. High-ranking military often prefer to withhold information about their illegal business and entrepreneurship. At the same time, according to Fridinsky, during the inspection, it turned out that, contrary to the ban, the heads of almost all departments and troops of the supervised GWP are engaged in business.
As stated by Fridinsky, "even despite the very tough measures introduced by the state, the number of such violations does not decrease, but grows."
The prosecutor's office conducted this inspection of property and income declarations submitted by officials on behalf of Dmitry Medvedev, the president of Russia. According to Fridinsky, the scale of the violations revealed was “impressive”. According to the head of department, military prosecutors during the inspection found more than 700 violations of anti-corruption legislation.
In particular, according to the prosecutor, one of the deputy. commander of the North fleet hid information about the property of his wife, who had a foreign car, two cars and a garage abroad. In addition, the couple had eight bank deposits. During the audit, it turned out that the head of one military academy concealed the fact that in 2005 he became the founder of a commercial organization and combined entrepreneurial activity with military service.
The head of another academy, who was also the founder of another commercial structure from 2005, "also decided not to shine this circumstance," said Fridinsky. Also, according to the head of the department, it was found that an employee of Rosoboronpostavka "well combined the post of general director of an LLC with a civil service."
“Unfortunately, there are many such examples. The field, as they say, has not yet been plowed,” summed up the head of the GWP, hinting that it is possible to detect violations of the law by high-ranking law enforcement officials.
The situation with other crimes in the armed forces has stabilized.
In general, the Russian army’s criminal situation is stable, and even changes for the better, unless, of course, we take into account the scope of corruption and the safety of funds allocated for defense, admitted Sergey Fridinsky, the chief military prosecutor, in an interview with Interfax. According to him, the number of crimes committed by the military reduced by more than 16 percent. In addition, "the number of military units is constantly increasing, where no offenses are registered at all."
In the army, according to Fridinsky, the number of serious crimes has decreased significantly, the number of attempts to evade military service, as well as attacks on ammunition and weapon. There are fewer offenders among the officers. As noted by Fridinsky, the positive results of 2011 of the year include a reduction in the number of military personnel who suffered from violence from fellow workers.
The chief military prosecutor stressed that the general state of law and order in the armed forces, despite positive changes, "unfortunately remains far from perfect."
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