In the Russian capital Moscow, a former deputy chief executive officer of S7 Airlines is on trial on alleged charges of bribery and fraud. The local news agency "Ria Novosti" reports, among other things, that the former flight director is accused of bribery and fraud on a large scale.

The preliminary proceedings are directed against a total of three people, who, apart from the former S7 management board member, were not named. Another medium reports, naming the full names, that it is said to be a former deputy director general, who was responsible for flight operations in his function, a flight director and a flight instructor.

Specifically, the suspects are accused of having accepted a bribe of 2021 million Russian rubles through straw men in June 1,5. In return, the "payer" would have been employed as a co-pilot at S7 Airlines. However, a trap could also have been set, because shortly afterwards the three suspects, who are now being brought to justice, were arrested by the Secret Service Directorate T.

In the course of the investigation, the Russian authorities want to have revealed that civil aviation officials are said to have been bribed in the past. It is also accused that experts and doctors should have received money for medicals for family members to be correspondingly positive.

S7 Airlines released the three people immediately after their arrest. The people are currently under so-called house arrest and have had to pledge that they will not leave the Russian Federation. The veracity of the allegations made against the three former S7 managers cannot be independently verified due to the political situation. In the past, officials who have not behaved faithfully to the government line have repeatedly been eliminated by allegations of corruption.