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Ex-construction official gets 13.5 years in prison in Vostochny Cosmodrome graft case

Moscow’s Babushkinsky District Court found ex-deputy chief of the Federal Agency for Special Construction (Spetsstroy) Alexander Mordovets guilty of bribery and abuse of office during the construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome and sentenced him to 13.5 year in high-security prison.

11:15 09.02.2021

Ex-construction official faces sentencing in spaceport bribery case in February

Prosecutors have demanded a 13.5-year prison sentence for ex-deputy chief of the Federal Agency for Special Construction (Spetsstroy) Alexander Mordovets charged with bribery and abuse of office during the construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome.

10:53 15.01.2021

Vostochny embezzlement case defendant’s assets worth over $16 mln forfeited to state

The Troitsk Court in Moscow has granted a prosecutor’s bid to forfeit assets worth over 1.2 billion rubles (over $16 million) owned by Dalspetsstroy building company’s ex-CEO Yury Khrizman, a convicted defendant in the Vostochny Cosmodrome embezlement case, to the state.

17:43 24.12.2020

Defendants in fictitious works at Vostochny case sentenced to up to 5 years in prison

A court has sentenced former project manager of the Chief Administration for Special Construction in the territory of Siberia Natalya Bulantseva to 5 years in a penal colony for embezzlement of budgetary funds during construction of Vostochny Cosmodrome.

12:38 26.02.2020

Defendants in $4mln Vostochny embezzlement case sentenced to prison

A court in the town of Stavropol has sentenced two defendants in a criminal case over 252 million rubles ($4 million) embezzlement during the construction of Vostochny Cosmodrome facilities to 5 and 6 years in prison.

14:39 28.01.2020

Contractors of Vostochny Cosmodrome construction convicted of $1.6 mln embezzlement

Several top managers of Transengineering company, a construction contractor of Vostochny Cosmodrome facilities, have been sentenced to prison for embezzlement of nearly 100 million rubles ($1.6 million). However, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg has released the defendants from punishment as they had served the imposed sentence in detention.

17:53 27.12.2019

Businessman gets 11 years for $15 mln Vostochny Cosmodrome embezzlement

The Blagoveshchensk City Court in Russia’s Amur Region has sentenced the head manager of Krasnoyarsk’s company USIO Dmitry Vishnevsky, to 11 years in prison for embezzlement of more than 980 million rubles (over $15 million) from budget funds allocated for the construction of Vostochny Cosmodrome.

16:01 03.12.2019

Ex-construction official charged in spaceport bribery case goes on trial

Moscow’s Babushkinsky District Court will enter into the consideration of a case against ex-deputy chief of the Federal Agency for Special Construction (Spetsstroy) Alexander Mordovets on October 31.

14:59 25.10.2019

Federal Agency for Special Construction ex-deputy’s detention extended for 3 months

The Moscow City Court has extended detention of the Federal Agency for Special Construction (Spetsstroy) ex-deputy Alexander Mordovets until August 29.

13:35 17.05.2019

Ex-manager of construction company gets over 6 years for abuse of office

A court in Russia’s Khabarovsk has sentenced a former deputy chief of Dalspetsstroy construction company Mikhail Gelman to 6 years and 3 months in prison for abuse of office resulted in the infliction of an 800-million-ruble damage ($12.5 million) to the state.

11:59 23.04.2019

Sentence of four defendants in $20 mln cosmodrome embezzlement case to be reviewed

The Moscow City Court’s Presidium on Monday overturned a ruling mitigating sentence of four defendants in a case over 1.3-billion-ruble embezzlement (about $20 million) during the Vostochny Cosmodrome construction.

13:57 11.02.2019

Vostochny Cosmodrome contractor detained in $400k embezzlement case

A court in Blagoveshchensk, a city in Russia’s Far East, has ordered detention for Anton Novikov, CEO of LEO TELECOM company, a contractor of Vostochny Cosmodrome, as part of a 26-million-ruble embezzlement case.

12:11 10.01.2019

Second sentence of Vostochny Cosmodrome embezzlement case convict vacated

The Moscow City Court on Monday overturned a second sentence given to engineer Sergey Ostrovsky, who had been convicted on two separate occasions of multimillion embezzlement during the Vostochny Cosmodrome construction in Russia's Far East.

17:15 15.10.2018

Moscow court refuses to release defendant in Vostochy Cosmodrome embezzlement case

The Moscow City Court has refused to release the former CEO of Volga-Vyatka construction company (VVCC) Yevgeniya Degtyareva sentenced to 4.5 years in a penal colony for embezzling 1.3 billion rubles ($19.8 million) during the Vostochny Cosmodrome construction.

17:05 09.10.2018

Moscow court to review sentence in Vostochny Cosmodrome embezzlement case

The Moscow City Court will review the merits of a lower court ruling, sentencing four defendants in a criminal case over embezzlement of 1.3 billion rubles ($19.8 million) to prison terms varying from 4.5 to 8 years.

12:59 02.10.2018

Russian Supreme Court mitigates sentence of two Vostochny embezzlement case defendants

Russia’s Supreme Court on Friday mitigated the sentence of Dalspetsstroy building company’s ex-CEO Yury Khrizman and his son Mikhail convicted of embezzling 5.2 billion rubles (about $83 million at the current exchange rate) during Vostochny Cosmodrome construction.

11:48 08.06.2018

Vostochny Cosmodrome embezzlement case convict gets 7 more years in prison

Moscow’s Gagarinsky District Court has sentenced ex-Chief Engineer of the State Design Institute for Special Construction Sergey Ostrovsky, who is currently serving a 5-year term for embezzlement during the Vostochny Cosmodrome construction in Russia's Far East, to another 7 years in prison.

11:55 20.03.2018

Three defendants in Vostochny Cosmodrome embezzlement case to go on trial

A criminal case against three more defendants charged with embezzlement and related crimes during construction of Vostochny Cosmodrome has been forwarded to a court for hearing.

13:59 26.02.2018

Defendant in Vostochny Cosmodrome embezzlement case sentenced to 12 years

The Far East District Military Court in Russia’s Khabarovsk has sentenced former head of Dalspetsstroy building company, Yury Khrizman, to 12 years in a penal colony for abuse of office and embezzling 5.2 billion rubles ($92.8 million) during construction of Vostochny Cosmodrome.

10:56 26.02.2018

Four Vostochny embezzlement case defendants sentenced to prison

The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow on Wednesday sentenced four defendants in a criminal case over embezzlement of 1.3 billion rubles ($23 million) during Vostochny Cosmodrome construction to prison terms ranging from 4.5 to 8 years.

16:59 21.02.2018