In Russia-occupied Sevastopol, the tragicomedy involving Pavel Florya, the “director of the 13th Black Sea Fleet ship repair yard,” came to a rather swift end.
He was allegedly “placed under house arrest” at the end of May, as stated by the Main Military Investigative Department of the aggressor’s Investigative Committee. It was then stated that “director Pavel Florya is suspected of large-scale fraud in the implementation of state defense contracts and has confessed,” allegedly “stealing more than 4 million rubles during equipment deliveries in February 2023.”
It should be noted that the biography of 43-year-old Pavel Flori is rather vague. He has been managing the “13th Plant” since 2020, and, as the aggressor’s propaganda claimed, in February-March 2022, supposedly “under Flori’s direct supervision, during combat operations in the Kherson region, as well as in northern Crimea,” the hydraulic structures of the North Crimean Canal, allegedly “destroyed by units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces”, were “recommissioned.”
That the war between the aggressor’s factions, which began in May under the guise of fighting “corruption,” would be intense became clear immediately, since in response to the Investigative Committee, they stated that “Florya is at his workplace and continues to manage the enterprise,” and reminded them that “the plant has been designated the sole contractor for servicing and repairing ships and vessels of the Black Sea Fleet” of the aggressor.
And now the occupiers’ fake “Nakhimovsky District Court” has “closed the criminal case” against Pavel Florya, which had previously been “reclassified” from “large-scale fraud” to “abuse of power with grave consequences.”
The case was closed due to “repentance and compensation” by the defendant, who continues to engage in more or less the same activities, remaining the “director of the 13th ship repair plant”; even local collaborators are asking the rhetorical question on social media: “Was that even so easy?”
