Three defendants in a criminal case of theft during the development of the Spektr-UV space telescope received suspended sentences, reports the portal of the capital’s courts of general jurisdiction in telegram channel. Two of them were released from serving their sentences.
The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sentenced the deputy general designer of the NPO named after S.A. Lavochkin to Alexander Moisheev and chief engineer of the NPO Vladimir Klimushin. In addition, Alexey Omelyanenko, deputy general director of the Mosinformstroy company, was sentenced to a suspended sentence.
All three were found guilty under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale), the maximum penalty under this article is up to ten years in prison.
The court sentenced Mosheev to three years of suspended imprisonment, and Klimushin to two years and six months. Both were released from serving their sentences “due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.”
Omelyanenko, in addition to the article of fraud, was charged with clause “a” of Part 2 of Art. 199 (tax evasion by a group of persons by prior conspiracy) and Part 2 of Art. 199.2 of the Criminal Code (concealment of a particularly large amount of funds or property of an organization or individual entrepreneur, at the expense of which taxes and (or) fees should be collected). The court sentenced him to three years probation and a fine of 800 thousand rubles.
“Civil claim of the State Corporation (state corporation. – RBC) Roscosmos in the amount of more than 92 million rubles. satisfied,” the court said.
According to investigators, TASS correspondent clarifies from the courtroom, the developers of Spectra-UF, during the signing of an additional agreement to the state contract, “deliberately inflated the cost of work from 160 to 252 million rubles.” According to the agency, Mosinformstroy CEO Anatoly Skakunov is also a defendant in the case.
“Kommersant”, 02/01/2024, “A telescope was needed for the verdict”: The Investigative Committee began investigating the circumstances of the theft of funds allocated for the development of the Spektr-UV telescope in 2018, while the case materials describe events that occurred in 2010–2011.
As follows from the case materials, at that time the deputy general director of the Lavochkin NPO for economics and finance, Valery Romanov (died in 2014), as well as Alexander Moisheev and Vladimir Klimushin, entered into a criminal conspiracy “aimed at embezzling funds during the development of a comprehensive control and measuring system.” stand of the T170-M telescope.” The NPO was developing the orbital telescope under a government contract, and Roscosmos acted as the customer for the work. In accordance with the criminal plan, the case says, Mr. Moisheev found a subcontractor – the Mosinformstroy company. Moreover, as follows from the investigation materials, the leading employees of the association knew that this company did not have the license necessary to perform contract work under the contract, but they not only turned a blind eye to this, but also artificially inflated the cost of performing the work from the original 160 million rub. up to 262 million rubles.
At the same time, the chief engineer of the association, Klimushin, with the help of his subordinates, it follows from the case, prepared contractual documentation and ensured the signing of all necessary acts and technical reports. […] It remains to add that the launch of the Spektr-UV telescope has been repeatedly postponed and has not yet been completed. — Insert K.ru
In January 2023, the general director of the NGO named after them was sentenced to three years in a general regime colony for abuse of power. Lavochkina Vladimir Kolmykov.
Izvestia.Ru, 01.25.2024, “Orbital instance: the designer of the “Russian Hubble” has two years to live”: Alexander Moisheev is one of the most famous living spacecraft designers. He was born in 1943. He was the designer of the Astron space observatory, which operated successfully in 1983–1989. As deputy general designer of the Lavochkin NPO, he made a serious contribution to the Soviet and Russian space programs for flights to Mars and Venus. He participated in the implementation of the Lunokhod program – the creation of a series of Soviet remotely controlled planetary rovers for lunar exploration. One of the minor planets of the Asteroid Belt, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, is named after Mosheev.
According to Alexander Moisheev, with this criminal case the investigator “crossed out and trashed all his achievements,” and the criminal prosecution itself negatively affects the work of the entire enterprise. According to him, now, “many managers avoid signing all kinds of documents and try to avoid any kind of responsibility.” — Insert K.ru