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MOSCOW, 19 Jul — RIA Novosti. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev awarded the ex-General Director of “Mail of Russia” Dmitry Strashnov honorary diploma of the government of the Russian Federation, the corresponding decree was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.
“For labor achievements and a great contribution to the development of postal services to award the honorary diploma of the government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Strashnov Paton”, — the document says.
Strashnov headed “Mail of Russia” in April 2013 in the period post the collapse, when the three Metropolitan airports accumulated 500 tons of unprocessed mail, Russia did not accept an international shipment. Strashnova managed in two months to restore the international postal exchange. During his work collapses did not occur, despite the annual growth of shipments from abroad due to the increased popularity of Internet trading.
When Strashnova Mail twice raised the salaries of line staff; launched the largest logistics center in Vnukovo and private aircraft and mail train; has created a number of new services for private and corporate clients. Was created by the “Post Bank”, the need for which has been discussed for several years. The mail was prepared for corporatization.
Strashnov contract expired on 1 July 2017. While his departure was preceded by months of intrigue. In November the Prosecutor General’s office said pursuing a criminal case against Strashnov and two Directors of departments of the Ministry of communications in connection with the illegal payment to the General Director of “Mail” for the reward at the end of 2014 in the amount of 95,4 million rubles. According to the prosecutors, the remuneration was to be only 3.2 million rubles. Against this background, regularly there were rumors about the resignation Strashnov.
He Strashnov and the Ministry of communications it was stated that the award was paid in accordance with existing regulations.