Suspects of stealing more than a billion rubles were detained in Ingushetia

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PYATIGORSK, April 28 Members of an organized criminal group (OCG) were detained in Ingushetia on suspicion of embezzling budget funds worth more than 1 billion rubles allocated for implementation government measures to support families with children, as reported in the Telegram channel of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the North Caucasus Federal District.
“Law enforcement officers identified and suppressed the activities of a carefully hidden organized criminal group specializing in the theft of funds on an especially large scale, allocated from the federal budget for the implementation of government measures to support families with children,” the statement says.
< br />It is noted that seven criminal cases have been opened on the grounds of a crime provided for in Part 4 of Article 159.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud in receiving payments), combined in one proceeding.

It was established that the organized crime group included employees of the State Unitary Enterprise «Regional Operator of Housing Mortgage Lending of the Republic of Ingushetia», residents of the region, employees of Roskadastre and unidentified persons.
According to the investigation, in the period from 2019 to 2022, members of the organized crime group, receiving copies of personal documents with personal and other data of individuals, including birth certificates of the third and subsequent children, prepared false purchase and sale agreements for real estate and loan agreements between state unitary enterprises «ROIZHK RI» and buyers of real estate under previously prepared forged purchase and sale agreements. In addition, they also produced and provided birth certificates for non-existent children allegedly born outside the Russian Federation.
“As a result of illegal actions, members of the group stole budgetary funds in the amount of over 1 billion rubles. The activities of the organized criminal group were carefully covered up and for a long time were carried out under the guise of legal activities,” the release notes.

In addition, as part of the criminal case initiated in the territory of Ingushetia and North Ossetia, with the support of employees of the FSB and the Economic Security Service and the PC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Ingushetia, 15 searches were carried out at the places of residence and work of members of the organized crime group.

«Three defendants in the criminal case, including the director of the Republican Unitary Mortgage Lending Enterprise, who was the organizer of the organized crime group, were detained. In relation to two defendants… preventive measures were taken in the form of detention. In respect of the third the defendant, who has seven dependent minor children, two of whom are disabled, was chosen as a preventive measure in the form of house arrest,” the department concluded.