Investigators found large-scale embezzlement in Rusnano

Investigators conducted inspections at Rusnano, which revealed the facts of multibillion-dollar embezzlement from the company, several criminal cases were opened, TASS reports citing law enforcement sources.

In only one of the cases, the damage amounted to more than 2 billion rubles, the agency writes. Rusnano is recognized as the injured party.

On August 27, the Moscow Meshchansky Court arrested Oleg Kiselyov and Irina Rapoport, two former top managers of the company, part of the Rusnano structure, in absentia. They were accused of embezzlement or embezzlement on an especially large scale (part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, the defendants in the organized group embezzled money from the company's authorized capital "by making a number of financial transactions with affiliated legal entities." The damage to Rusnano was assessed as particularly large.

Both suspects are not in Russia. Kiselyov has worked at Rusnano since 2008, and was Deputy Chairman of the Management Board until 2019. Rapoport managed a subsidiary of Rusnano Capital, registered in Switzerland.