This was reported in the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
“Today the investigator ... has brought charges against the director of the Institute of Social Sciences of the RANEPA, the rector of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences, Sergei Zuev, of committing a crime under Part 4 of Art.
159 of the Criminal Code of Russia, ”the message says.
According to the investigation, in 2018 Zuev, together with ex-Deputy Minister of Education Marina Rakova and former Deputy Director General of the Foundation for New Forms of Education Development, Yevgeny Zak, conspired to steal RANEPA money.
As specified, using their official position, the defendants entered into fictitious employment contracts between the RANEPA and 12 employees of the Russian Ministry of Education for their employment.
Investigators of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow also indicted Marina Rakova and Yevgeny Zak under Part 4 of Art.
159 of the Criminal Code of Russia (fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale).
Earlier it was reported that the police identified 12 fictitious employees of the RANEPA during the investigation of the case of Rakova.
The Moscow City Court overturned the decision on house arrest of the rector of Shaninka, Sergei Zuev, who was arrested in the fraud case, and sent him to a pre-trial detention center.
Lawyer Sergei Kozhura said he would appeal the decision to transfer Zuev from house arrest to a pre-trial detention center.
On October 13, the Tverskoy District Court ruled to send the rector of the university under house arrest until December 7.