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2025: Management detained in price conspiracy case

Three leaders of the St. Petersburg FSUE SKTB Technologist were detained in a large-scale fraud case. This was reported by law enforcement agencies on February 26, 2025. The suspects were the general director, chief accountant and deputy head of the enterprise, which is engaged in the production of drug substances.

According to RBC, on the eve of the arrest, the suspects were searched. The investigation believes that the heads of the enterprise, in collusion with other employees through a controlled law firm, artificially inflated prices for purchased goods. As a result, more than ₽16 million were illegally withdrawn from the turnover of the enterprise.

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FSUE SKTB Technologist is an enterprise under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. formations Russia It is included in the register of organizations of the country's military-industrial complex. The history of the enterprise began in 1963, when the first stage of the experimental experimental base of the Leningrad Technological Institute named after Lensovet in the village of Ust-Slavyanka was put into operation.

The detainees are in custody pending a court decision on the election of a preventive measure. In addition to the main defendants in the case, searches were carried out in the house of the director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Dmitry Rudenko. However, after interviewing as a witness, he was released. It is interesting to note that Rudenko previously held positions in the Smolny Finance Committee and headed the Housing Committee's Waste Management Department.

For FSUE SKTB Technologist, this is not the first criminal case related to fraudulent schemes. In 2022, the company has already attracted the attention of law enforcement agencies. Then the court arrested 47-year-old deputy finance director Irina Andreeva and 49-year-old commercial director Dmitry Volchka. They were charged with overestimating prices for the purchase of chemical components for enterprises of the defense complex.

The investigation of the case continues, and the investigating authorities find out all the circumstances of the criminal scheme, as well as establish a full circle of persons involved in fraudulent actions. The defendants in the case face punishment under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of Russia (large-scale fraud), which provides for imprisonment for up to six years.^[1]

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