Orlov Stanislav

Biography

2023: Arrest in the case of embezzlement during the construction of a health complex in the Orenburg region

On October 26, 2023, the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent into custody the assistant to the head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Stanislav Orlov. He is suspected of embezzlement during the construction of a fitness center in the Orenburg region.

Orlov is suspected of fraud on an especially large scale under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. This is a fraud committed by an organized group or resulting in the deprivation of a citizen's right to a residential premises. An especially large amount is considered an amount exceeding 1 million rubles and the punishment is provided for up to 10 years in prison.

FOK in the village of Northern Orenburg region, during the construction of which theft was committed, according to which Stanislav Orlov is accused

According to the case file, Orlov and his accomplices, as part of the execution of a state contract for the construction of a sports and recreation complex in the village of Severnoye, Orenburg Region, organized a criminal scheme to transfer 66.7 million rubles as an advance to the account of Tekhgazmontazh, a contractor.

The official report says that Orlov and other accomplices, creating the appearance of proper performance of work under the contract, completed only a part of the volume provided for by the agreement, in the amount of 20,189,772 rubles. In addition, a set-off of counter homogeneous claims was adopted in the form of the customer's debt to the general contractor under another agreement in the amount of 12,233,754 rubles. At the same time, the accomplices evaded the remaining part of the construction and installation work, and the money received as an advance in the amount of 34,308,058 rubles "turned in their favor and disposed of them at their discretion for purposes not related to the fulfillment of contractual obligations." In other words, we are talking about embezzlement of funds.

Orlov was detained by officers of the "economic" police at his place of residence in Sestroretsk (administratively part of St. Petersburg). In accordance with the current laws, the inquiry authority, the interrogator or the investigator has the right to detain a person on suspicion of committing a crime for which a sentence of imprisonment can be imposed.^[1]

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