Andrey Esipov, the head of pickett Group, was arrested on suspicion of particularly large-scale fraud, and ICR suspected that he was the mastermind of executing the fraudulent contract of 20,000 bulletproof vests and "board jackets" signed with the Ministry of National Defense.
Pickett Group Corporation of Russia and its responsible person were transferred to court for prosecution for allegedly supplying inferior bulletproof vests to the army and defrauding the Russian Ministry of Defense of 2 billion rubles. Esipov talked about patriotism in the trial and refused to plead guilty. The court ruled that pickett Group and Andrei Escipov were involved in the crime, and refused the bail application of the defense lawyer. The business between pickett Group and Andrei Essipov is smooth in Moscow.
pickett Group Corporation of Russia and its responsible person were transferred to the court for prosecution for allegedly supplying inferior bulletproof vests to the army and defrauding the Russian Ministry of Defense of 2 billion rubles.
On the evening of April 5, Russia's Kommersant reported that the supplier who provided bulletproof vests and drones to the Russian army participating in the Ukrainian special military operation signed a first-class order contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense, but it was a major scandal of inferior products that was handed over to the army.
According to the investigation by the main investigation bureau of ICR in Russia, the Russian Ministry of Defence ordered 20,000 bullet-proof vests and "board jackets" from Picket Group of Companies (pickett Group Company), a Russian arms supplier for many years. The contracts signed were first-class, and were priced according to the price of the first-class products, which were used to equip the troops going to the Ukrainian battlefield. As a result, customers not only received inferior products that did not meet the terms of the contract, but also paid more fees, involving 2 billion rubles in fraud. Three witnesses testified in court and confirmed the fraud of pickett Group.
Andrey Esipov, the head of pickett Group, was arrested on suspicion of particularly large-scale fraud, and ICR suspected that he was the mastermind of executing the fraudulent contract of 20,000 bulletproof vests and "board jackets" signed with the Ministry of National Defense. In the indictment, ICR accused pickett Group, Andrei Escipov and other defendants of being involved in particularly large-scale fraud in Part 159 of Article 4 of the Criminal Law.