Investigators opened a criminal case against Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Sergei Bagaev, who is the scientific director of the Institute of Laser Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS).
It is reported by “Kommersant”.
According to the publication, the 80-year-old scientist is suspected of a particularly large-scale fraud. According to investigators, the 2017 contract for the development, assembly and adjustment of the laser optical system worth two million rubles between the institute and its subsidiary, the Siberian Laser Center intersectoral scientific and technical association headed by Bagaev, was fictitious.
