The ex-deputy minister and former rector of Shaninka pleaded guilty to embezzlement
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Former deputy minister of education of Russia Marina Rakova and former rector of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (known as Shaninka) Sergey Zuev pleaded guilty to embezzlement of funds from the budget. The two other defendants also agreed to the fraud charges, RIA Novosti reports.
The indictment was announced at three sessions of the Nikulin District Court in Moscow.
Marina Rakova and Sergey Zuev are accused of embezzling more than 40 million rubles, they were detained in October 2021. According to the investigation, Rakova, while working as a deputy minister, secured the allocation of budget funds for the Fund for New Forms of Educational Development, which she headed. With this money, the fund ordered work from a subcontractor – Shaninka. The investigation claims that the work was paid for, but not performed.
Rakova was in the pre-trial detention center for almost an hour. Zuev also spent some time in a pre-trial detention center, later he was transferred to house arrest. In November of last year, the Moscow City Court softened the restraining order against them. Rakova was released from pre-trial detention center, and Zuev was released from house arrest.
During the investigation, all the accused pleaded guilty. Most of the damage in the case has been compensated. Earlier, Zuev’s lawyer Ruslan Kozhura told Business FM that only his client reimbursed 37 and a half million rubles.
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