The detention of Marat Arustamov is the result of an audit by the internal audit service of the corporation, the interlocutor of TASS noted
MOSCOW, October 19. /tass/. The criminal case in which the Deputy Director General of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities (CENKI, part of Roscosmos) was detained Marat Arustamov, initiated, among other things, as a result of an audit of the Roscosmos internal audit service. This was reported to TASS by a source in the rocket and space industry.
"The detention of Marat Arustamov, Deputy Director General of the Center for the Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure Facilities (CENKI) for Economics and Finance, is the result of an audit by the internal audit service of Roscosmos, he has long been in the field of view of the security department of the state corporation. Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin was acquainted with the results of the inspection, he authorized the course of further investigation," the agency interlocutor noted.
Earlier, the Kommersant newspaper reported that the investigative department of the FSB in the Amur Region detained Arustamov for 48 hours as a suspect in a criminal case initiated under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud on a particularly large scale").
According to the publication, the detention is connected with a contract for the construction of a housing complex, social and cultural facilities on the territory of the Vostochny BUT Tsiolkovsky cosmodrome.
In October last year, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview with Andrei Vandenko as part of the TASS special project "First Persons" that 22 criminal cases had been initiated since 2018 based on the results of internal audit service inspections. In January, 26 criminal cases were already reported.
