Kornilov Alexander Kirillovich

Biography

2024: Detention on charges of embezzlement of 3.2 million rubles

On January 11, 2024, it became known about the detention of Alexander Kornilov, Director General of the Radio System Research and Production Center (SPC). He is suspected of embezzling 3.2 million rubles of budget funds allocated from the budget for the revision of the anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) of the S-400.

According to the Mash Telegram channel, in 2020, the Radio System SPC received an order to improve the workplace of the S-400 radar operator to improve missile flights. However, two years later, the investigation found out that "dead souls" were working on the project - fictitious employees. The security forces establish who received a salary for them. By January 11, 2024, Kornilov is under recognizance not to leave, he has already confessed, according to the Mash publication. According to the Telegram channel, Kornilov was detained in the Tver region.

SAM S-400

As reported on the website of the SPC "Radio Systems," the main activities of the enterprise are:

• development of algorithms and programs for devices for digital processing of radar signals based on modern digital processors;
• assessment of efficiency of complex systems functioning using simulation modeling methods;
• development of rational ways to increase the efficiency and stability of the operation of complex radio systems in the expected conditions of their application;
• creation of mathematical simulation simulations of complex radio engineering systems and instructions for their practical use in the development, modernization and testing of new models of air defense weapons;
• development of special stands for development of software and algorithmic support of workstations of radar and CP operators, as well as creation of special software based on them.^[1]

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