The chamber decided to check the expenditure of the Ministry of sports for preparation for the world Cup
The audit chamber will check how the Ministry of sport, the organizing Committee of the world championship on football of 2018 and the authorities of regions spent money on preparations for the world Cup, according to the audit plan of the Department.
The audit chamber will conduct an audit of efficiency of use of the state money allocated for the construction of infrastructure and development of system of preparation of sports reserve.
the world championship on football was held in Russia from 14 June to fifteen July of last year. The matches were held in eleven cities across the country.
From 2017, the court considered the case of embezzlement in the construction of stadiums, hotels and infrastructure during the preparations for the world Cup.
So, in November of 2018 Rostov court has sentenced three businessmen to a real prison term for embezzling 87 million rubles in the construction of the sewer.
in January of this year in Kaliningrad the court has received a case of theft 752 million rubles allocated for the preparation of the stadium.
in early March the city court in absentia arrested the subcontractor "Samara Arena" Sergey Ulasevich, who blamed the non-payment of 33 million rubles for the construction of the stadium. By the end of 2017 he was accused of stealing 2, 5 billion rubles.