In KBR, Chief Accountant of Federal Treasury is suspected of fraud

The Acting Head of the Finance Department – Chief Accountant of the Federal Treasury in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) is suspected of a fraudulent stealing the funds accrued to employees of the Department as bonuses.

According to investigators, in the period from December 1, 2013, to June 1, 2014, Chief Accountant, stole, by abusing his official position, the money belonging to employees of the Department, amounting to 266,000 roubles.

After employees received their bonuses, the Chief Accountant demanded the money back under various pretexts, but did not hand the funds over to the cash division, but embezzled them.

A criminal case was opened against the accountant under Part 3, Article 159, of the Criminal Code (a fraud committed by a person through abusing his official position), according to the website of the Investigating Department for the KBR of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The suspect is under a threat of up to six years in prison and a fine.

Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" wrote that on June 19 the Nalchik City Court sentenced Leonid Zrumov, the former head of the Federal Treasury for the KBR, to five years of imprisonment on charges of misuse of budgetary funds amounting to more than 19.8 million roubles.