MOSCOW, April 27 (RAPSI) – Moscow's Tagansky District Court sentenced Stanislav Rogozhin, head of a "Russian business group" in Germany belonging to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), to eight years in prison in absentia over alleged fraud linked to subsidiary of state-owned defense and technology holding Rostec, RAPSI reported from the courtroom on Monday.

Rogozhin was charged with embezzling over 330 million rubles ($6.6 million) from Stankoimport that is wholly owned by Rostec between 2004 and 2007.