Andriy Voronin, who last November was arrested on suspicion of embezzling $ 1 million from the Moscow office of the concern Toshiba, fully admitted his guilt and repented, and intends to ask the court to consider his case in a simplified manner, hoping to mitigate the punishment, writes Kommersant.
The investigation revealed that the former head of the department of social control in the Government Accountability Office (CS ) Russian President Voronin used to enrich the scandal of public procurement at inflated prices to the needs of the regions of costly medical scanners.
Voronin through two intermediaries notified the manufacturers of medical devices that Rosfinmonitoring in connection with the scandal, allegedly created a black list of companies and those companies that are in this list, supposedly, no longer able to participate in the supply of medical equipment gostenderah. With the exception of the list of official asked each company to one million dollars.
The head of the Moscow office of Toshiba Bahtiozin Rustam asked for protection in the DES of the MVD. According to the newspaper, further negotiations have been rolled back, the Kremlin official under the supervision of investigators. Voronin was arrested in late November last year on the job in the building of the Russian president KU. Two days later he was arrested by decision of the Court of Moscow Ostankino.
Now the investigation into Voronin completed, the indictment has already been sent for approval to the General Prosecutor's Office, after which the materials of the case will go to court for consideration on the merits. Voronin accused of h. 3 items. 30 and h. 4 tbsp. 159 of the Criminal Code ( attempted fraud on a large scale in an organized group ). 
It is known that the ex -official made a pre-trial deal with the investigation. Protection of the accused intends to ask the court to consider the case in a special manner, without hearing witnesses, as well as the announcement of the evidence and research. In this case, according to the requirements of the Criminal Procedure Code, the punishment for Mr. Voronin can not exceed three-quarters of the maximum sentence under the Criminal Code for fraud on a large scale ( the crime attributed to the category of serious Criminal Code ), that is no more than 7.5 years. Given the pre-trial deal, a former Kremlin official could be sentenced to only half of this term. In this case the judge is entitled to appoint him a suspended sentence as not previously brought to criminal responsibility, and which is characterized by a positive place of previous work in the CG presidential.
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