Former Nuke Sub Facility Chief Sentenced For Fraud

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RIA Novosti, PUBLISHED September 11, 2012

The former head of a Russian nuclear submarine repair plant has been given a three-year suspended sentence for embezzling 29 million rubles ($916,000) in company funds.

A court in Russia's Pacific port city of Vladivostok also ordered Yury Shulgin to pay 550,000 rubles ($17,300) in damages.

Shulgin was head of the Zvezda plant in the eastern region of Primorye, a nuclear submarine repair and disposal facility, between 2001 and 2008.

It is not clear when the fraud took place.

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