The campaign aimed at fighting economic crimes that was launched by the Department of Internal Affairs and the public prosecution authorities of Ural Federal District resulted in charging the director of state-owned Electrohimpribor (based in the town of Lesnoy, Sverdlovsk Region) with mercenary crimes and large-scale theft, reports the spokesperson for the public prosecution authorities of Ural Federal District.

The accused is believed to have stolen over 1.4 million RUR through signing fictitious agreements about providing non-existent information services on behalf of the company; the money was then transferred into the account of an ad hoc firm and then cashed in Moscow-based banks. In order to conceal this theft, the director provided the accounting department with a sample report taken from an online textbook.

To make matters worse, even though the company had a few million rubles worth of debt in terms of taxes of all kinds, the director had repeatedly singed disadvantageous agreements in order to make his own profit, which resulted in another 4.8 million RUR worth of damage to the state.

In the course of the investigation, the accused was charged with embezzlement and abuse of power; this means he might get up to ten years in prison and pay an up to one-million-ruble fine.

The investigation of the case has been completed by the Department of Internal Affairs in Ural Federal District, and Deputy Public Prosecution of the Russian Federation Yu. Zolotov has already placed the indictment with the court.