MOSCOW. April 18 (Interfax) - Military prosecutors have raised the question of opening a criminal case against Valentin Ponomaryov, general director of OOO Nevsky Yakor, who is suspected of supplying the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov with a Dutch-made anchor.
Ponomaryov bought a used anchor from a Dutch company for 27,000 Euros (1 million rubles), which is one quarter the amount he received from the Defense Ministry, in seeking to turn a profit. He later forged a certificate and put a false number on the anchor," the Russian Prosecutor General's Office reported on its website on Wednesday.
"Despite the differences between the size and mass of the anchor and the information stated in the certificate and the different numbers and signs of corrosion, it was supplied to the aircraft carrier," the Prosecutor General's Office reported.
The probe materials have been sent to the military investigative bodies, which will decide whether a criminal case will be opened on the basis of Article 159 of the Russian Criminal Code (fraud), the Prosecutor General's Office reported.