Biography
In September 2019, TASS, citing its own sources, announced the arrest of the general director of Aleksei Smyatskikh and his first deputy Andrei Platonov in a large-scale fraud case.
According to the agency, the court chose a preventive measure in the form of detention for two months. Top managers of "SpaceTeam" are charged with committing a crime under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale"). The article provides for punishment of up to 10 years in prison with a fine of up to 1 million rubles.
The SpaceTeam monitoring system was developed under the direct supervision of Aleksei Smyatskikh and Andrei Platonov. Earlier, also under their leadership, the introduction of the state GLONASS system was carried out. In particular, the functioning of the regional navigation systems of Chechnya and the Kaluga region, as well as the intelligent transport system of Moscow, the data center, Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports, is currently ensured.