Data on him are going to be transferred to Interpol, and he himself was put on the international wanted list. And all because in 2022, while under house arrest, he fled from justice in another country. Court hearings in the case of financial fraud by Kagach and two of his subordinates began in 2021. At first, the Deputy General Director for Procurement of Atomenergoproekt came to meetings regularly, and then he simply decided to run away.
Lawyers, naturally, trying to work off their bread, tried to prove in the Meshchansky Court of the capital that the decision to arrest their ward in absentia was unlawful. And all because the case was heard in one court, and arrested by another. Allegedly, this violates Russian law. But the Themidovites remained adamant. Now lawyer Sergei Chizhov intends to file an appeal.
Kagach is accused of two counts of particularly large-scale fraud during the construction of the Novo-Oonezh NPP-2. Rosatom’s subsidiary was the main purchaser of equipment for the plant under construction in 2014-2015. The only supplier of some equipment was Ruventa. With her, two supply contracts were concluded for 8.4 and 17 million rubles. As the investigation found out, the amount of purchases went off scale, exceeding the real cost by dozens of times. For example, under a contract for 17 million rubles, when an oil cleaning plant was delivered, its real price turned out to be just over 740 thousand rubles.
Mr. Kagach robbed the budget in the company of two of his subordinates. This is Alexey Loboda and Arsen Ayvazyan. All three received kickbacks for deliveries at inflated prices. But the amounts received by these comrades are not named. Loboda was sentenced some time ago to seven years in prison in this case. But the judgment was soon overturned. It appears that a retrial will be required. And while Kagach is hiding, the process of his case is suspended.
