Cases of billion-dollar embezzlement in defense procurement have reached the court in Rostov-on-Don.

The criminal cases against the owners and employees of Tenth Bearing Plant LLC in the Rostov Region, accused of embezzling over 2.2 billion rubles, have been sent to court.

The Main Military Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia has completed its investigation into the cases against Alexander Dyachenko, General Director of Tenth Bearing Plant LLC (GPZ-10), plant owners Alexey and Lyudmila Kuleshov, former Director of Economics and Finance Nikolai Borisov, and heads of the plant's planning and economics department Felix Zakhartsov and Roman Volkov.

According to investigators, contracts for the supply of bearing products were signed with Tenth Bearing Plant LLC between 2020 and 2024 as part of a state defense order. Borisov, Dyachenko, Sukhomlin, the Kuleshovs, Volkov, and Zakhartsov stole over 2.2 billion rubles by inflating prices and deliberately introducing false information into delivery documents for the products, causing significant damage to the state and 16 industrial enterprises, Interfax reported on February 2, citing the press service of the Russian Investigative Committee.

The participants in the criminal case are accused of committing fraud on an especially large scale. 1 Andrei Sukhomlin, former head of the 547th military representative office of the Russian Ministry of Defense, is also accused of fraud and forgery.

The defendants' property, worth over 5 billion rubles, was seized. Sukhomlin, Volkov, and Kuleshov have been remanded in custody, while the accused Borisov, Dyachenko, Zakhartsov, and Kuleshova are under house arrest, RBC reported.

RBC reported in November 2025 that the owners of GPZ-10, including the former deputy head of Rosstandart, plant officials, and the head of the military representative office of the Russian Ministry of Defense, organized the supply of products under the state defense order at prices inflated by 3-8 times.

"Caucasian Knot" also wrote that at the end of 2023, the former director of the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex named after G.M. Beriev, Yuri Grudinin, was found guilty of abuse of office and sentenced to five years years in prison. For the two sentences combined, he was sentenced to six years in a general regime penal colony.