Russian law-enforcement authorities closed the criminal case involving a Siemens employee, the company says in its quarterly report.

As has been reported earlier, the Russian authorities carried out an investigation based on a suspicion that the budget money had been misused through offering Siemens a contract for the delivery of medical equipment to Yekaterinburg in 2003-2005. On July 5, 2011 the inquiry involving a Siemens employee was closed, with all the charges dismissed,’ Interfax quotes the company as reporting.

In November 2007, Siemens representative for Sverdlovsk Region Lev Dubnov was detained on the basis of criminal charges regarding the alleged embezzlement of budget money in collusion with a number of Yekaterinburg municipal healthcare officials. The investigation team believed that some tomographs had been purchased at a price that was nearly two times higher than the market one, and that no marketing research had been done beforehand. The total damage done to Yekaterinburg budget was then estimated at 24m RUR.

A separate criminal lawsuit was made out of Lev Dubnov’s case, while the suspect himself was allowed to leave the detention ward after providing a written undertaking not to leave town due to his illness.