A sensational scandal erupted in President’s Administrative Affairs Office. Alexei Naumov, former acting director of Settlement and Financial Center is on the wrong side of the bar for grand misappropriation and laundering. The inscription on the box reads: "For Bribes."
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Top-Ranked Bureaucrat Brought to Account
A sensational scandal erupted in President’s Administrative Affairs Office. Alexei Naumov, 46, former acting director of Settlement and Financial Center (today’s Center for Financial and Legal Support) is on the wrong side of the bar for grand misappropriation and laundering. The damage caused to the state is estimated at 25 million rubles. Naumov hasn’t admitted the guilt so far, while people in President’s Administrative Affairs Office say it is the first scandal of such extent within their recollection.
It emerged that Alexei Naumov carried on business during his employment at the Settlement and Financial Center of President’s Administrative Affairs Office. To be more precise, he was in the lubricants trade via Dorresursinvest that he controlled. In October of 2003, Naumov owed 20 million rubles to Altair Alfa Nefteproduct for supplied petroleum and decided to clear the arrears for account of the Settlement and Financial Center.
At that time as a government’s bureaucrat, Naumov was settling the credit debt of Barvikha Agricultural Enterprise of the Medical Center of President’s Administrative Affairs Office. The debt exceeded 70 million rubles and the company was on the verge of bankruptcy. To rescue Barvikha, Naumov initiated raising a loan of 50 million rubles with Rosbank. A half of the amount was spent to pay off Barvikha’s debt, while the second half first went to accounts of another company under Naumov’s control – Auditor Company Balance Ltd., and then to the dummy firms, Teplokhim and Forum, as if for consulting services.
The detectives say Naumov used the money to pay to Altair Alfa Nefteproduct. Of interest is that Naumov himself launched the investigation. In summer of 2005, he went to the Interior Ministry’s Department of Moscow South-East District, blaming the theft of 25 million rubles on Teplokhim and Forum. He also initiated lodging the suits against those companies to the Arbitration Court.
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All the Article in Russian as of Apr. 09, 2008
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