A criminal case has been initiated against Deputy Minister of Transport Vladimir Tokarev, who was detained by the FSB. About it TASS said a law enforcement source.
According to him, the investigation is underway under the article on fraud on an especially large scale. We are talking about fraud five years ago in the Spetstransstroy company, where Tokarev worked for two years as the first deputy general director, clarifies “Kommersant”. The second defendant in the case was the former head of the company, Yuri Reilyan, who was arrested in the fall in Irkutsk. According to the investigation, the fraud was committed during the implementation of the project for the expansion of the Trans-Siberian Railways. Currently, Spetstransstroy is undergoing bankruptcy proceedings.
Tokarev was interrogated all day on January 19, and he spent the night in a temporary detention center. The investigation intends to petition for his arrest.
Tokarev has been acting as Deputy Minister of Transport since January 2021 – he was reappointed to this position, since in the spring of 2020 he was in the position of “Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation – Head of the Federal Agency for Railway Transport.”
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