MOSCOW. Jan 25 (Interfax) - Military prosecutors have secured the opening of 13 criminal cases into claims of large-scale misappropriation and abuse of power in the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces (RVSN).
"Thirteen criminal cases have been opened using the documents provided by military prosecutors, including cases against five rocket division commanders," the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said on its website on Friday.
Two top managers of the PromSpecStroi construction company have been prosecuted based on charges of fraud and commercial bribery, it said.
Inspections conducted by RVSN military prosecutors in 16 Russian regions have established that the state budget lost more than 90 million rubles as a result of abuses that accompanied the expenditure of 500 million rubles allocated for remediation efforts around the forces' missile launch pads, the Prosecutor's Office said.
"It has been established the services envisioned by 16 contracts signed with different commercial organizations were not provided in full or were of poor quality," it said.
The prosecutors also accused the military unit commanders of signing the final reports and obtaining their confirmation at the RVSN central office without seeking a state commission's approval of these services, it said.
"More than ten million rubles has already been returned to the state at military prosecutors' request," it said.