Officers of the Division of Economic Security and Combating the Corruption of the MIA Administration for the South-Western Administrative District of the MIA General Administration for the City of Moscow detained a 34-year-old director of one of the Metropolitan construction companies on suspicion of fraud on a large scale.

Earlier  more than 15 people applied to the MIA Administration for the South-Western Administrative District  with statements of fraud. The victims  told that they had transferred to the director of a construction company an advance payment in amounts ranging from 1.7 million rubles to 3.7 million rubles for wooden houses, that the man  promised to bring to their land-plots. However, so far the offender has not fulfilled his obligations and spent the money of the victims' for his personal needs.

The material damage totaled about 30 mln. rubles

There was initiated a criminal case on the grounds of an offense stipulated by article "Fraud" of the RF Criminal Code.

A house arrest was selected as the preventive measure for the suspect.

Press-Service of the MIA General Administration for the City of Moscow