The court arrested a former naval officer, who is accused of embezzling almost 500 million rubles

“In relation to the former head of the service for the development and operation of missile and artillery weapons of the shipbuilding department of the Navy, Captain 1st Rank Vadim Movchan, a criminal case was initiated under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud on an especially large scale")", - reports" TASS ", referring to the text of the resolution.

The document says that in the period from September 2013 to December 2017, the officer, together with the head of Zavod Elektropribor OJSC Mutalib Emiraliev and the head of Soyuz-M JSC Zamir Akhmedov and others, committed theft by deception and abuse of confidence of the Ministry of Defense officials cash in the amount of 497,732,711 rubles 29 kopecks.

It is noted that Movchan, after the initiation of a criminal case, tried to come to an agreement with the deputy head of the Navy's missile armament service, who was involved in the investigation for examination.

"The involvement of Movchan in the commission of the alleged crime, according to the investigation, is confirmed by the collected evidence", - the resolution says.

Earlier it was reported that three generals of the Russian Guard and a number of employees of the department were suspected of embezzling 192 million rubles in the implementation of the real estate register.