MOSCOW. Nov 7 (Interfax) - A court has seized assets of former heads of Russian Defense Ministry departments totaling more than 700 million rubles as part of the case of ministry real estate embezzlement in Moscow and the Moscow region, the Main Military Investigative Department of the Russian Investigative Committee said.
"Seeking to ensure the fine collection, the enforcement of a civil law suit, and other proprietary claims, the court upheld an application from an investigator of the Main Military Investigative Department for seizing assets of Ovchinnikov, Grachev, Astashkin and Potapov totaling over 700 million rubles," the department said on Telegram on Thursday.
The Russian Investigative Committee said earlier it was investigating an embezzlement case of former head of the Main Troop Accommodation Department's Problem Asset Management Division Nikolai Grachev, former bankruptcy manager of the Russian Defense Ministry's Moscow Region Construction Department Alexei Astashkin, citizen Yevgeny Potapov, and individual entrepreneur Sergei Ovchinnikov.
"Investigators found that in 2019-2021, Grachev, Astashkin and Potapov, guided by Ovchinnikov, faked tenders in the course of bankruptcy of the Russian Defense Ministry's Moscow Region Construction Department and stole real estate in Moscow and Balashikha, Moscow region, with a total value exceeding 940 million rubles," the department said.
The Russian Investigative Committee said earlier that the defendants were arrested.