The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow sent for the pre-trial detention center the former Governor of the Kursk Region Alexei Smirnov in the fraud case, the press service of the Moscow ships reports. The public representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk said that Smirnov and his former deputy Alexei Dedova were charged with fraud, which was completely under an organized group using an official position. (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). Smirnov and grandfathers were detained as part of the investigation of the theft of more than a billion rubles of budget funds that were allocated corporations for the development of the Kursk region for the construction of fortifications on the border with Ukraine, said Irina Volk. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they led the participants of the organized group and, together with the leadership of the development corporation, organized theft. Earlier in the same case, three heads of the development corporation of the Kursk region were detained, as well as the leaders of companies who received money and did not do work. Smirnov served as the head of the Kursk region from May to December 2024, and before that he was deputy governor of the region. His predecessor was Roman Starovoit, who went to increase and headed the Ministry of Transport. Under Smirnov, in August 2024, the Armed Forces invaded the Kursk region, occupying part of the region. According to the sources of Vedomosti and anonymous telegram channels, the former general director of the development corporation of the Kursk region Vladimir Lukin, who previously detained, testified to Smirnov. After Smirnov’s resignation from the Governor’s post in December 2024, Alexander Khinshtein. Vladmir Lukin was also detained in December 2024 in a criminal case of abuse of powers. According to the TASS source, Lukin’s actions led to unreasonable spending of budget funds in the amount of more than 173 million rubles. Even earlier, Deputy Lukin Igor Grabin was sent in a pre -trial detention center in the same case. Construction of reinforced defense lines in the Kursk region began more than two years ago. In October 2022, the then head of the region Roman Starovoit reported on the completion of the construction of two lines, promising that the third would be ready until November 5. “We are ready to reflect any encroachments on our territory,” said the opera staff. (Tagstotranslate) News
Former Governor of the Kursk Region Alexei Smirnov was sent in a pre -trial detention center in the case of embezzlement during the construction of fortifications on the border with Ukraine
