It turned out who was covering up the theft at the fortifications in the Kursk region

The first ex-deputy governor of the Kursk region Alexey Dedov and ex-deputy governor Roman Denisov covered up the theft during the construction of fortifications on the border with Ukraine. This was stated by the former deputy director of the capital construction Fund Maxim Savosin, summoned to court as a witness, RIA Novosti reports.

"Grandfathers, yes, Grandfathers... and the Ministry of Construction of the Kursk region, for example, Denisov," Savosin said.

Also, the construction of fortifications was controlled by the Department of capital construction.

On the eve of the trial, the ex-deputy of the Regional Duma, Maxim Vasiliev, accused of the same embezzlement, told how the former deputy governor Alexei Dedov promised that there would be enough money for construction and kickbacks, and the work would be accepted even without executive documentation.

Earlier, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation through the court demanded to recover from the ex-head of the Kursk Region Development Corporation (KRKO) Vladimir Lukin, his deputies and a number of businessmen have more than 3.2 billion rubles appropriated during the construction of fortifications. The defendants in the lawsuit are Lukin and his former deputies, including Snezhana Martyanova, Vladislav Martyanov, Denis Fedorov, Maxim Vasiliev, Yuri Bessonov, Maxim Voronin, Vladimir Konoplev, Ivan Utkin; companies: LLC "CTC Service", LLC "Techimpex", LLC "Trading House Kursk", LLC "Siemi", LLC "Elektrostroymontazh", LLC "Yartes Engineering", LLC "Power System".

As a result, the court recovered over 4.1 billion rubles from the former leaders of the KRKO.