Friday, February 25, 2011

Former Kremlin Official Admits $1 Mln Fraud

The police completed the criminal investigation of Andrey Voronin, formerly a high-ranking Russian Presidential Administration official, who has been charged with large-scale fraud. Voronin allegedly contacted executives of the Japanese company Toshiba after a scandal related to medical equipment-overpricing, informed them that the company was blacklisted from governmental contracts, and offered to remove the company from the list for $1 mln. Toshiba called the police, who arrested Voronin. Voronin confessed to the fraud charges and made a plea bargain that will reduce his possible prison term.

http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1591301

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