Lieutenant General Oleg Frolov, deputy director of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), according to the "Sun" local time on December 23, the ** and two other people were "suddenly arrested", which surprised Frolov himself and everyone around him.
However, his "crime" was soon made public. "Investigators say that Frolov used his official position to organize a criminal conspiracy with two other accomplices," Russian law enforcement agencies said. During the execution of the contract, they stole at least 43.5 billion rubles (33.52 million RMB) was originally used to fund the budget for the purchase of equipment.
If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.
The 61-year-old Frolov once appeared in the same frame as Russia's Vladimir Putin, who was wearing white overalls and was briefing Putin on the development of the "Satan-2" ballistic missile. It is reported that Frolov is the main person in charge of the development and testing of this **.
The Satan-2, the nickname given by NATO for the RS-28 ballistic missile, is a super-heavy intercontinental strategic ballistic missile weighing 208 tons and the size of a 14-story tower.
In addition, Frolov was involved in the development of the Avangard hypersonic missile (**Angard), another new hypersonic missile capable of delivering missiles at targets at 27 times the speed of sound.
Frolov's co-conspirators, one unnamed, and the other Evgeny Fomichev, the head of research at a research company called the "Geophysical Universe Research Company".
The Geophysical Cosmos Research Corporation "develops the first guidance system for ballistic missiles, and Fomilchev is considered close to Frolov, in addition to being friends with the former head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Dmitry Rogozin. It is reported that just last December, Rogozin escaped an assassination believed to be from the Ukrainian side.
But the latest news is that the investigators' investigation of Fomichev has not yet been completed, and the Moscow court found that Fomitchev's alleged crimes are related to his company, and do not seem to have much to do with Frolov's charges of "stealing public funds". Of course, because the investigation has not yet been completed, it is not possible to draw conclusions now.
So far, Fomichev's lawyers have asked that all hearings related to the case be held behind closed doors, as some aspects of the case involve confidential and potentially dangerous information.
Just on the 18th of this month, Evgeny Postrigan, the chief accountant of a large Russian space satellite company, was found dead in the garage of his home in Siberia, and law enforcement said he died "of asphyxiation."
There are reports that Postregan, who died at the age of 50, committed suicide, but a criminal investigation is continuing in order to establish the true cause of his death.
It is worth noting that Postrigan's company has close ties with Roscosmos and the "Geophysical Universe Research Company", and this company has also been sanctioned by several countries, including the United States, Ukraine, and Japan, due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.