Former head of Moscow prosthetic and orthopedic company arrested

Former head of prosthetic and orthopedic company arrested in Moscow in fraud case

Moscow's Tverskoy Court granted the request of the investigative bodies and remanded in custody Bidzin Khubutia, the former CEO of a Moscow prosthetic and orthopedic enterprise, as well as a representative of a Hungarian company and an intermediary between foreign firms. He is accused of fraud on an especially large scale within the framework of a contract for the supply of specialized robotic systems, TASS reports, citing a court ruling.

“The court decided to grant the motion of the preliminary investigation bodies to choose a preventive measure in the form of detention for B.N. Khubutia,” the document says.

According to the court's decision, the second defendant in the case, O. I. Vaschenko, was also arrested, and their accomplice, R. V. Bobylin, was placed under house arrest by court order.

Earlier in Dagestan, the chairman of a consumer cooperative was accused of stealing 277 million rubles in maternity capital.