The Prosecutor’s Office of the Krasnoyarsk Territory approved the indictment in a criminal case against the coach of the regional sports training center and sports school of the Olympic reserve for embezzlement and illegal sale of ammunition for weapons on fire, reports the press service of the prosecutor’s office. .
According to investigators, since 2019, the accused, as a shooting coach in biathlon academies, appropriated the cartridges of the athletes not used during the training process, indicating in his statements that all the ammunition was exhausted. He stole 11,244 5.66 mm rounds in this way, causing damage to organizations totaling 83,900 rubles. The defendant pleaded fully guilty.
– In more than 130 statements, he indicated false information on the total expenditure on ammunition. The stolen goods were supposed to be sold to shooting athletes for a fee. In July 2022, during the sale to the father of his student of 50 pcs. sporting and hunting cartridges, the man was arrested on the spot by employees of the regional department of the FSB of Russia, the report said.
The criminal case concerning embezzlement (part 3 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and illegal sale of ammunition for firearms (part 2 of article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ) will be considered by the Oktyabrsky District Court. from Krasnoyarsk. The 30-year-old coach faces 5 to 8 years in prison.
In the 2022/23 season, the head of the Russian Biathlon Union (RBU), Viktor Maigurov, reported problems with the equipment of the Russian national team in cartridges that arose after the departure of foreign suppliers. The problem of the cartridges remains topical today.
Source : MatchTV
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