Investigative Committee is investigating the circumstances of the supply of hundreds of thousands of defective shirts for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, sewn with rotten threads – “Kommersant”

The Main Investigation Department of the TFR is investigating the circumstances of the supply in 2017 of more than 350 thousand defective shirts for the needs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The investigation believes that the threads used for the fabric were rotten, which caused the shirts to wear out quickly, writes Kommersant.

The ministry received the uniforms within the framework of a half-billion state contract concluded with BMF LLC.

The damage in the criminal case exceeds 270 million rubles, and the victims are not only the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but also the Russian Federation – the purchases were carried out within the framework of the state defense order. The investigation believes that the general director of the supplier company Boris Lyashuk did not initially intend to fulfill the concluded contract in full and, having developed a criminal plan, allegedly began to save on the production of clothes.

Lyashuk himself does not admit his guilt. The defense insists that this is not a crime, but a dispute between business entities, artificially transferred to the criminal plane. Lyashuk’s lawyer also said that the investigation had already offered their client to testify against his business partners, who are being held in the rationing case, promising in return for a mitigation of the measure of restraint, but the arrested person refused the offer.