Former Russian Academy of Sciences library director Oleg Shorin arrested in Moscow on fraud charges
Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court has ordered Oleg Shorin, the former director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Library for Natural Sciences, held in custody on charges of large-scale fraud, Kommersant reported.
Former director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Library for Natural Sciences, Oleg Shorin, was arrested in Moscow on charges of large-scale fraud, according to Kommersant. The arrest followed an order from Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court to hold Shorin in custody. The reason for the charges remains unclear. Shorin resigned from his position in December 2023.
In June of that year, Khamovnichesky District Court in Moscow fined the library 141,000 rubles for misusing 2.8 million rubles in public funds. The library was unaware of Shorin's arrest and his connection to the charges. Shorin, who previously worked at the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg, began his tenure at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Library for Natural Sciences in 2018.
He was responsible for the digitization of the library's vast collection. In 2023, he transitioned to the role of director of digital transformation at Rently, where he oversaw the strategic development of a cloud-based software-as-a-service platform.
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