The Ministry of the Interior aggravated the charges against five defendants in the theft of 8.8 billion rubles from six non-state pension funds, Kommersant writes. In addition to fraud, the former president of AFK Sistema Evgeniy Novitsky, as well as the co-owners of the investment group Russian Funds, Sergey Vasiliev and Konstantin Bayrit, were charged with organizing a criminal community. According to the publication, repeated investigations have begun, none of the accused admits guilt.