“At the enterprises of the state corporation for a long time, probably for decades, there were schemes that allowed individual managers to engage in illegal activities. This is a withdrawal of funds, and facts of corruption, and facts of fraud, and abuse, ”he said on the air of the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station.
Over the past year alone, according to the materials of the audit service, more than 15 criminal cases have been initiated, Melnikov said.
On November 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that the government prevent the misuse of budget funds, as was the case with the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome, where theft amounts to hundreds of millions of rubles.
On November 12, the general director of Roskosmos Dmitry Rogozin announced the removal from the project of persons involved in corruption at the Vostochny cosmodrome.
According to him, the construction schedule for the second stage of the spaceport is being maintained.