Austrian businessman accused of fraud during landfill reclamation

Investigators from the Moscow region have charged Oliver Kaiser, director of the Austrian company Ecocom, with particularly large-scale fraud in the implementation of the state contract for the reclamation of the Kuchino landfill. This was reported by TASS on May 2, citing a law enforcement source.

"He was charged with fraud (Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), and the court chose a preventive measure in the form of detention, the term of which was recently extended by a court near Moscow," the source said.

According to investigators, from 2018 to 2020, Kaiser violated the terms of the state contract when carrying out work on the reclamation of a landfill in the Balashikha city district. The businessman has been arrested and is being held in one of the regional pre-trial detention centers.

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