Prosecutors: Missile Forces Scam Cost Russia $3 Mln

A fraud in Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) has cost the state over 90 million rubles (about $3 million), the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) said on Friday. The Interior Ministry said on Thursday police had uncovered embezzlement of hundreds of millions of rubles of state funds from Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), with high-level Defense Ministry officials and commercial executives suspected of involvement. A criminal case has been opened on charges of graft, fraud and abuse of office. The case is part of a wider probe into alleged fraud involving Defense Ministry assets worth at least $130 million at the ministry's property management firm Oboronservis. The investigation, involving at least a dozen separate instances of fraud, led to the sacking of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov in November.

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