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MiG-29 Fraudster Gets Suspended Sentence
MiG-29SMT fighter
© RIA Novosti. Alexander Utkin
05:17 07/06/2013
http://en.ria.ru/military_news/20130607/181550375/MiG-29-Fraudster-Gets-Suspended-Sentence.html
MOSCOW, June 7 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow court has given a four-year
suspended sentence to the last defendant in the criminal case over
deliveries of low-quality equipment for MiG-29 fighters that were
rejected by Algeria in 2007, Russia's business daily Kommersant said
Friday.
The Moscow city court announced the sentencing for Mikael Kazaryan at
a closed session on Thursday. The suspended sentence is a result of a
plea bargain between the defendant and the prosecutors.
Criminal charges against Kazaryan, former general director of the
Rezon company that sold the MiG Aircraft Corporation outdated
equipment using forged certificates and tags, were brought in 2012 as
part of a broader case involving several MiG officials and
businessmen.
Kazaryan, 58, had initially fled to Armenia but later returned to
Russia and surrendered to the authorities, Kommersant said.
He had given a detailed account of his criminal activities and fully
admitted his guilt, the paper said citing case materials.
© RIA Novosti.
MiG: between Past and Future
Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport signed a $1.3 bln
contract to deliver 28 one-seater MiG-29SMT fighters and six
two-seater MiG-29UB combat trainers to Algeria in March 2006 as part
of an $8 billion military cooperation agreement.
However, after receiving 15 MiG fighters, Algeria refused further
deliveries in May 2007. It then froze all payments under contracts
with Russia in October 2007, requiring that Moscow first take back the
15 MiG-29s due to their "inferior quality."
Three Russian businessmen involved in theMiG-29 fraud were convicted
by a Moscow court in May, 2012. One of them was sentenced to a 5-year
prison term and the other two received hefty fines.
A year earlier, Musail Ismailov, the head of the Aviaremsnab company
that supplied MiG with faulty parts, was sentenced to two years in
prison while serving a 5.5-year sentence for a fraud involving
deliveries of inferior quality equipment to the Polish air force.
A criminal case against former first deputy director general of the
MiG Aircraft Corporation Sergei Tsivilev and his deputy, Oleg Fadeyev,
was closed in December 2012 as its statute of limitations period had
expired.
MiG-29SMT fighter
© RIA Novosti. Alexander Utkin
05:17 07/06/2013
http://en.ria.ru/military_news/20130607/181550375/MiG-29-Fraudster-Gets-Suspended-Sentence.html
MOSCOW, June 7 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow court has given a four-year
suspended sentence to the last defendant in the criminal case over
deliveries of low-quality equipment for MiG-29 fighters that were
rejected by Algeria in 2007, Russia's business daily Kommersant said
Friday.
The Moscow city court announced the sentencing for Mikael Kazaryan at
a closed session on Thursday. The suspended sentence is a result of a
plea bargain between the defendant and the prosecutors.
Criminal charges against Kazaryan, former general director of the
Rezon company that sold the MiG Aircraft Corporation outdated
equipment using forged certificates and tags, were brought in 2012 as
part of a broader case involving several MiG officials and
businessmen.
Kazaryan, 58, had initially fled to Armenia but later returned to
Russia and surrendered to the authorities, Kommersant said.
He had given a detailed account of his criminal activities and fully
admitted his guilt, the paper said citing case materials.
© RIA Novosti.
MiG: between Past and Future
Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport signed a $1.3 bln
contract to deliver 28 one-seater MiG-29SMT fighters and six
two-seater MiG-29UB combat trainers to Algeria in March 2006 as part
of an $8 billion military cooperation agreement.
However, after receiving 15 MiG fighters, Algeria refused further
deliveries in May 2007. It then froze all payments under contracts
with Russia in October 2007, requiring that Moscow first take back the
15 MiG-29s due to their "inferior quality."
Three Russian businessmen involved in theMiG-29 fraud were convicted
by a Moscow court in May, 2012. One of them was sentenced to a 5-year
prison term and the other two received hefty fines.
A year earlier, Musail Ismailov, the head of the Aviaremsnab company
that supplied MiG with faulty parts, was sentenced to two years in
prison while serving a 5.5-year sentence for a fraud involving
deliveries of inferior quality equipment to the Polish air force.
A criminal case against former first deputy director general of the
MiG Aircraft Corporation Sergei Tsivilev and his deputy, Oleg Fadeyev,
was closed in December 2012 as its statute of limitations period had
expired.