Accused of embezzlement auditor of Accounts Chamber resigned

Auditor of the Accounts Chamber Mikhail Men, the question of removal from the post of which the Federation Council was to consider on June 2, filed a resignation. About this, with reference to sources in the upper chamber of parliament, reports TASS.

In turn, RIA Novosti reports that in place of me after removing it from office senators intend to offer Natalia Trunovy.

Earlier it was reported that the situation with the official was learn in the Profile Committee of the Chamber of Budget and Financial Markets. The necessary documents were supposed to come this week.

The criminal case against me was initiated at the end of last year. The auditor accused of embezzling 700 million rubles from the budget of the Ivanovo region at a time when he served as head of the region. This year, the court stopped production over the expiration of the statute of limitations.

Men headed Ivanovo region from 2005 to 2013. He then became the Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services, and in 2018, Mountain went to work in the Accounts Chamber.

/Media reports.