Thread by @RALee85

Multiple Russian Navy officials, Captains, and officials from Electropribor have been accused of embezzling 692.7 million rubles ($9.35 million) from the state defense order from 2013-2016 from funds for upgrading the weapons of Northern Fleet ships.
kommersant.ru/doc/5153456

They are also accused of destroying evidence and pressuring witnesses. 2 of the defendants, a retired Navy Captain and advisor to Rosoboronexport, and the head of the Navy's Missile and Artillery Armament Development and Operation Service, are under house arrest. 2/

Investigators from the FSB's Military Counterintelligence Department said the accused communicated on their phones with a foreign app that allowed them to delete their conversations, which sounds like Signal. 3/

The investigation also reportedly included unidentified members of the Ministry of Defense and the Main Command of the Navy. The embezzlement was from funds for new navigation equipment and the repair of anti-aircraft missile systems on missile cruisers (Marshal Ustinov?) 4/

The method of embezzlement is fairly common, they inflated the prices of the equipment, with the help of officials from the defense factories, and lied about the work they were actually doing. 5/

An MoD report from 2017 with then Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov visiting Elektropribor, which produces navigation systems for the Russian Navy. 6/
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