MOSCOW, October 19 (RIA
Novosti) – A Moscow court has ordered the arrest of an activist of the
Sheremetyevo Trade Union of Flight Personnel caught in a large-scale
fraud case linked to Russia's major airline Aeroflot.
Valery
Pimosheko will remain in custody for two months until December 19,
Russian legal news agency RAPSI has reported. He faces up to 10 years in
jail for “attempted theft” of Aeroflot’s property by deception.
The
activist and the executive director of the Sheremetyevo Trade Union of
Flight Personnel, Alexei Shlyapnikov, were detained on Saturday as they
allegedly received 10 million rubles ($314,000) in exchange for their
assistance in resolving the airline’s wage disputes with the pilots.
The
suspects have demanded a total of 100 million rubles ($3 million) from
Aeroflot’s flight director for settling the dispute over compensating
crew members for harmful and dangerous work conditions, as well as night
work bonuses.
Aeroflot has been ordered to compensate a total of
1,200 employees by a Moscow court. The total payment of compensation,
which was set to begin last month, could amount to 1 billion rubles ($31
million).
The Sheremetyevo Trade Union of Flight Personnel
comprises over 850 pilots, flight engineers and aero navigators from
Aeroflot and more than 1,000 retired personnel.
Source: http://en.ria.ru
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