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In response to an inquiry filed by Yabloko's leader, the
office of the Public Prosecutor has disclosed instances
of misappropriation of budget fund allocations, that should
have been targeted to reconstruction work in Daghestan Audit
work by the office of the Public Prosecutor of the Russian
Federation, in response to an inquiry filed by Grigory Yavlinsky,
leader of the Yabloko faction of the State Duma, disclosed
instances of misappropriation and abuse "in the distribution
of budget funds allotted to reconstruction works and compensation
to citizens who suffered from the military actions in Daghestan".
In the official answer received by Grigory Yavlinsky,
the Deputy Public Prosecutor of the RF, Vladimir Davidov,
wrote that "the audit disclosed instances of misappropriation
and abuse of their posts by the officials of the administrations
of Botlihskiy, Novolakskiy and Buinakskiy areas of the city
of Buinaksk in the distribution of the aforementioned funds."
The letter also reports that, based on the inquiry of the
Yabloko leader, the office of the Public Prosecutor performed
audits which disclosed that "in a bid to steal budget funds,
the officials of the local self-governing bodies of the
aforementioned areas and the city, and the members of commissions
established to appraise the size of the losses, submitted
false information on the number of victims and the extent
of the damage". "The funds were distributed among people
who had not lost their property and were not entitled to
compensation. At the same time a large number of the victims
did not receive due compensations," noted the Deputy Public
Prosecutor.
He also reported that "the bodies of the Office of the
Public Prosecutor has launched 14 criminal proceedings based
on instances of theft and misappropriation of budget funds,
and work on these cases by specially created investigative
groups from the workers of the Office of the Public Prosecutor,
the Interior Ministry, the Department of the Federal Security
Service and the Department for Combating Organised Crime
of the Daghestan Republic ". "For example, a criminal suit
and arrest was issued against G.M. Magomayev who was in
charge of the headquarters for providing aid to those who
suffered from the terrorist act in Buinaksk and included
in the lists of those people entitled to compensation for
the lost property himself, his relatives and friends and
submitted fraudulent documentation to redeem 200,000 roubles."
"Misappropriation and abuse were also uncovered in the work
of the commission to appraise the damage in Buinaksk, which
drew up acts examining construction sites without visiting
locations," reports Vladimir Davidov. "The members of the
commission signed blank forms of the acts, with false data
on the amount of damage included later." According to an
initial investigation "the amount of the damage was overestimated
by 4.147 mln roubles". "A further audit of the legal character
of the use of the federal budget funds allotted as compensation
for damage to citizens who suffered from the military actions
is being carried out by the office of the Public Prosecutor
of the Daghestan Republic. Adoption of judicial procedural
decisions is supervised by the Office of the Public Prosecutor
of the RF", reports Vladimir Davidov.
Based on Interfax reports.
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