22:57, 24 December 2025

The amount of embezzlement during the execution of state defense orders in Dagestan exceeded 500 million.

The investigation into the embezzlement of over 500 million rubles during the fulfillment of a state defense contract in Dagestan has been completed, and the defendants' property has been seized.

As reported by Kavkazsky Uzel, in mid-February, the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow remanded Astemir Abayev, head of Main Military Construction Directorate (GVSU) No. 4, the general contractor for the Ministry of Defense's Military Construction Complex, into custody for two months on charges of fraud.

According to the Baza Telegram channel, Abayev's case may be connected to the GVSU's activities in Dagestan, where the organization is involved in the construction of over 70 facilities. Military construction workers under Abayev's leadership, in particular, built a 1,224-student school in Makhachkala, which opened in 2023, the Defense Ministry's Military Construction Company reported on its website on September 1, 2023. "Military construction workers were tasked with building 73 educational facilities in Dagestan, of which we have already completed 16, and we will complete another 13 by the end of the year, with a capacity of 17,450 students," the publication quotes Astemir Abayev as saying at the school's opening ceremony.

The Main Military Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia has completed investigative actions in the criminal case against Astemir Abayev and Vitaly Pronyushkin, employees of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Main Directorate of Special Construction," Marat Magomedov, General Director of Trust LLC, and Robert Gevorkov and Tagir Abdullaev, accused of committing large-scale fraud while fulfilling a state defense contract, the Investigative Committee of Russia's information center reported today. on his Telegram channel.

According to investigators, the state contractor awarded state contracts to FSUE GUSS for the construction of facilities in the Republic of Dagestan totaling over 1 billion rubles. The defendants were responsible for the proper execution of the contracts. Between 2020 and 2023, while fulfilling the contracts, Abaev, Pronyushkin, Magomedov, Gevorkov, and Abdullaev inflated prices for materials and embezzled over 500 million rubles, causing significant damage to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

At the investigator's request, the court ordered pretrial detention for Abaev, Pronyushkin, and Magomedov, and Gevorkov and Abdullaev were placed on the international wanted list. The court also seized the defendants' property totaling over 100 million rubles, the information center clarified.

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/419382