The Russian Railways (RR) (Services of Internet access in "Sapsans")

2022: Detection of theft of more than 800 million rubles in the provision of Internet access services in Sapsans

The Northern Transport Prosecutor's Office revealed the theft of more than 800 million rubles from funds allocated to provide Internet access services on Sapsan high-speed trains. This was reported on February 2, 2022 at the Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office.

The prosecutor's office revealed the theft of more than 800 million rubles from funds for the organization of Internet access in Sapsans
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As specified, the prosecutor's office conducted an audit in the field of consumer protection to provide services for using the Internet on Sapsan trains. It was found that in 2017 and 2019, Russian Railways entered into agreements for the provision of Internet access services to passengers of Sapsan trains totaling more than 1.5 billion rubles. At the same time, the facts of overstatement of the cost of work, as well as their improper execution, were revealed. In particular, the contractor under the contracts illegally included in its costs the cost of equipment purchased and installed on trains earlier. As a result of criminal actions, the cost of the work performed was overstated by more than 800 million rubles. The name of the executing company is not disclosed.

In this regard, the Northern Transport Prosecutor, in accordance with paragraph 2 of Part 2 of Art. 37 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, sent inspection materials to the investigative department of the line department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia at the Moscow-Leningradskaya station to resolve the issue of criminal prosecution.

According to the results of their consideration, a criminal case was instituted on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud committed on an especially large scale).

As noted, the progress of the investigation of the criminal case is under special control of the transport prosecutor.^[1]

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