Deputy Head of Roskosmos Dmitry Rogozin, who supervised the construction of the East Cosmodity, was fired. This was announced by Vice Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, reports on Thursday, June 3, RIA Novosti.
previously it became known that the Eastern cosmodrome revealed new frauds for hundreds of millions of rubles, the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Amur region opened two criminal cases. In one case, the contractor received through officials of the JSC Center of Operations of Ground Space Objects for the unfulfilled work of 600 million rubles. In another, the organization presented fictitious documents and stole almost 60 million rubles, without fulfilling construction and installation work.
In November 2019, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov announced the embezzlement of 11 billion rubles from the funds allocated for the construction of the eastern.
Eastern cosmodrome is built in the Amur region. Currently, the construction of the first object queue is practically completed for the launch of the Middle Rocket “Soyuz-2”. Now the second stage is underway on the cosmodrome, which will allow to launch the carriers of the Angara family. The construction of a cosmodrome is accompanied by numerous violations and corruption scandals.