In Sweden arrested a Russian citizen on suspicion of committing a criminal offence. This was reported on the website of the Russian Embassy in Facebook.
Diplomats informed about the detention of Russian Evgeny Pavlov born in 1979. He was placed in the Central prison of Stockholm.
“Citing “privacy case”, the police refused to inform of the charges in the address of the Russian prosecution. The lawyer of Russian citizen reported that he will be indicted for fraud”, — stated in the message.
According to the defense, the prosecution, the Russians are not yet filed. Soon there will be a hearing in the case.
The Embassy demanded from the Swedish authorities visit Pavlov, Consul. The police don’t give the answer, referring to the necessity of obtaining the consent of the detainee to such a meeting.
As reported TASS, Russian works in the subsidiary of the canadian Bombardier in Sweden, and he is charged with bribery in especially large size. We are talking about the contract for delivery in 2013 signal system for Railways worth more than 333 million dollars.
According to the investigation, despite the fact that the level of proposed prices Bombardier was in fifth place, the candidates of competitors in the tender were not considered. E-mail correspondence that proves it was received in 2016 during the search of the office of the company in Sweden.
The consequence suspects the company’s employees gave a bribe officials who conducted the tender in Azerbaijan. Also involved a private company of one of the Azerbaijani officials who received contracts worth $ 56 million, said the Prosecutor’s office.
The suspect denies his guilt.