MOSCOW, October 3 (RAPSI) – Employees of two construction materials supplier companies for the Vostochny Cosmodrome have been found guilty of embezzling 12 million rubles ($190,000), RAPSI learned from the Blagoveshchensk City Court on Monday.

According to investigators, in January of 2015 head of the supply department of “Ideal” company Kudlayeva proposed CEO of “StroySnab-DV” company Kirentsov to embezzle 900,000 rubles ($14,000) belonging to “Ideal”. In order to reach that goal she proposed to inflate the cost of a cable that “StroySnab-DV” was to supply “Ideal” with.

Later co-conspirators continued to inflate cost of construction materials.

Kirentsov has been sentenced to seven years in penal colony and compensation for caused damages. Kudlayeva has been sentenced to 3.5 years of a suspended term.