Former Rosaviatsiya chief detained on fraud charges
Alexander Neradko, the former head of Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, has been detained and charged with large-scale fraud, RBC reported, citing law enforcement sources.
Investigators have asked Moscow’s Khoroshevsky District Court to remand Neradko in custody. The court’s press service confirmed the information to TASS.
Details of the criminal case are not known.
Alexander Neradko had led Rosaviatsiya since 2009. He was dismissed by a decree from Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in September 2023.
In the final years of Neradko’s tenure, Rosaviatsiya’s activities repeatedly came under scrutiny from law enforcement, RBC notes. In 2022, several criminal cases were opened against agency employees. The head of the Rosaviatsiya’s senior qualification commission, Maxim Pavlyuk, was arrested, and in December security forces conducted searches at the agency’s central office and detained an employee of the digital transformation department, Alexander Matyushkin, on bribery charges.
Neradko himself received a reprimand from the government in May 2022 for “improper performance of his official duties.” According to a source close to the Ministry of Transport, the reprimand was allegedly issued due to the “systematic failure by the head of Rosaviatsiya” to carry out instructions from Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev.
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