“Yaskin was the director, sent a letter of resignation from abroad at his own will and left the post on April 17. Now they are engaged in the competent authorities, ”RIA Novosti reports the message.

As noted, according to the law, he had the right to send a corresponding application remotely.

The corporation also confirmed that employees are currently checking at the enterprise. Aleksey Shashkov has been appointed the new head of the Scientific-Research Institute.

Earlier, the newspaper Kommersant wrote that Yaskin "went under the pretext of a business trip" in April to one of the countries of Europe, from where he sent a letter of resignation at his own request.

In early April, the head of "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin announced the dismissal of the "negligent" developers of the ship "Federation".