Officers of the Division of Economic Security and Combatting the Corruption of the MIA of Russia for the Tver Region have revealed the fact of fraud involving the receipt of a subsidy for reimbursing a part of the costs for purchasing equipment of the organization. During the operative-search activities the policemen established that the suspect illegally received a subsidy in the amount of 1 million 258 thousand rubles, submitting deliberately fictitious documents to a state authority.

As a result of searches conducted by policemen at the place of residence of the suspect and in the office of the firm organized by him, financial and economic documentation, computer equipment and electronic information carriers were seized.

At the moment, a criminal case has been opened against the defendant by the unit for investigation of especially important cases of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Tver Region under part 4 of Article 159 “Fraud”. The maximum sanction of this article provides for imprisonment for up to ten years. At present, investigative actions aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the incident are being carried out. The investigation of the criminal case continues.