MOSCOW. Jan 19 (Interfax-AVN) - Orders and medals, presented by ex-warrant officer Gennady Uminsky as grounds for compensation, belong to other people, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry told Interfax-Military News Agency on Wednesday.
"The Defense Ministry has found out that the Order for Valor, the Order for Services Second Grade, and the Medal for Valor, as well as their certificates, presented by Uminsky to prove his right to monetary compensations for health damages, allegedly incurred in Chechnya, are registered in other people's names in the Defense Ministry's Personnel Directorate," the source said.
"Moreover, numbers and dates of presidential decrees, specified in decoration certificates, presented by Uminsky, do not correspond to real numbers and dates of presidential decrees on decorating Russian servicemen," he emphasized.
The source also said that in April 1997 Uminsky was forced to resign from the post of the head of the warehouse of the 395th Motorized Rifle Battalion of the 58th Army of the North Caucasus Military District for failing to comply with contractual requirements.
Uminsky says that he became an invalid as a result of a wound, received in Grozny. He filed a suit against the Defense Ministry and demanded a compensation for health damages, incurred in Chechnya. After a long hearing, his claim was satisfied, but a higher-echelon court of law reversed the verdict. Media outlets reported that the court of appeal had dismissed the suit for the reason that it was impossible to determine the culprit, and that the verdict, returned by the court of first instance, was not justified.