EmailIt’s a popular trope in espionage fiction to say a unit is so top secret that they “don’t exist,” but for once it was literally the case when Russian officials investigated their own “ghost soldiers.”
According to Russia’s RIA Novosti, a former defense official there has been convicted of tampering with military records to invent fictitious servicemen as part of an elaborate fraud scheme.
The official, identified as Valery Sergeyev in the Stavropol Territory in southern Russia, created several fake soldiers in order to pay them and then withdraw money from their accounts, RIA Novosti, Russia’s state news agency, said. Sergeyev reportedly stole a total of 11 million rubles, about $400,000, before he was caught. He was sentenced to five years in prison.
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Russian currency is rubles, not ruples as stated in your article
Posted by: Dennis | March 4, 2013, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm
Russian govt. paid the fake soldiers and the US govt. allowed them to vote.
Posted by: oonogil | March 5, 2013, 12:11 am 12:11 am
concerning the weather did you know Russia has an experimental climate changer made by scientists to effect the weather patterns across the world well if they can do that there no use for nuclier weapons capt kirk ya canny defy the laws of gravity
Posted by: bob | March 8, 2013, 9:35 am 9:35 am