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Defendants in GLONASS-M embezzlement receive prison terms ranging from 4 to 6 years

Russian Aviaton » Thursday December 21, 2017 22:33 MSK
Glonass-M satellite | Photo courtesy of the ISS Reshetnev

Four men have been convicted of embezzling about 400 million rubles (about $7 million) allocated for GLONASS-M satellite vehicles, the press service of Moscow’s Ostankinsky District Court has told RAPSI.

Top managers of companies Russian Space Systems and Mercury, Igor Krylov, Vitaly Tolmachev, Alexander Polyakov and Aleksey Diorditsa have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 4 to 6 years.

As previously reported, the defendants have embezzled budget money under contracts concluded between Mercury company and Russian Space Systems for supplies of details for GLONASS-M satellites.