The former deputy minister of the Sverdlovsk region received a sentence for stealing millions of state protection orders The Yekaterinburg Academic District Court announced the verdict against Igor Dobrovin and the former director of the Omega-Stroy company Vadim Ponomarev. Both are accused of fraud on a particularly large scale. According to the investigators, in 2015-2016 the defendants stole 63 million rubles from an advance payment as part of a government contract to build housing for military personnel in Orsk, Orenburg Region. Dubrovin was sentenced to nine years in a general regime colony and a fine of 700 thousand rubles. Ponomarev received six years in prison and a fine of 600 thousand rubles. Both defendants pleaded not guilty.

The former deputy minister of the Sverdlovsk region received a sentence for stealing millions of state protection orders The Yekaterinburg Academic District Court announced the verdict against Igor Dobrovin and the former director of the Omega-Stroy company Vadim Ponomarev. Both are accused of fraud on a particularly large scale. According to the investigators, in 2015-2016 the defendants stole 63 million rubles from an advance payment as part of a government contract to build housing for military personnel in Orsk, Orenburg Region. Dubrovin was sentenced to nine years in a general regime colony and a fine of 700 thousand rubles. Ponomarev received six years in prison and a fine of 600 thousand rubles. Both defendants pleaded not guilty.