Millers Vladimir Aleksandrovich

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2026: Sentence - 3.5 years in prison for embezzlement of subsidies of the Ministry of Industry and Trade

At the end of December 2025, the Oktyabrsky District Court of the city St. Petersburg issued a verdict against the former chairman of the board of the microelectronics plant "Vanguard" Vladimir Melnikov. He received 3.5 years in prison for embezzlement of subsidies. Ministry of Industry and Trade

The second person involved in the case was the ex-director of the Avangard Research Technological Institute (NITI) Alexander Kazak. According to the investigation, the named persons entered into a criminal conspiracy in order to steal budget funds allocated to compensate for part of the costs of conducting research and development work in priority areas of the civil industry. It was, in particular, about the organization of serial production of heat-conducting pastes based on metal powders and ceramics.

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The case file says that the accomplices entered into an agreement on behalf of NITI Avangard JSC with the Ministry of Industry and Trade on the provision of a subsidy of 100 million rubles from the federal budget. At the same time, the documents indicated deliberately increased deadlines and an overestimated cost of each stage of work. For the equal distribution of criminal income between organizations, NITI concluded an additional agreement with the parent Avangard OJSC. The work was carried out from March to December 2020, after which Kazak instructed to make forged documents for the Treasury, justifying the alleged costs incurred. As a result, the organizations received budget funds in the amount of 97.5 million rubles, which the defendants disposed of at their discretion.

Melnikov will serve his sentence in a general regime correctional colony. He was also fined 900 thousand rubles. In addition, for two years he is forbidden to engage in activities related to the receipt and use of budget funds allocated as subsidies, in the implementation of organizational, administrative and administrative functions in legal entities of any organizational and legal form. Cossack received two years in prison.^[1]

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