Football: Ex-St Petersburg official admits to stadium embezzlement

Former Saint Petersburg deputy governor Marat Oganesyan admitted that he embezzled 50.4 million rubles ($848,526) during the construction of the city's new stadium for the World Cup, the Investigative Committee of Russia said on Thursday.

Former Saint Petersburg deputy governor Marat Oganesyan admitted that he embezzled 50.4 million rubles ($848,526) during the construction of the city's new stadium for the World Cup, the Investigative Committee of Russia said on Thursday.

Oganesyan was arrested in November 2016 over a fraud scheme with a firm that was supposed to provide the stadium with a video scoreboard.

"He arranged a payment of a deposit of 50.4 million rubles to the company that was diverted through shell companies," the local section of the committee said in a statement.

"Mr Oganesyan knew that the company TDM did not intend to spend this money for the electronic panel in the stadium."

The 68,000-capacity Saint Petersburg Stadium will host six matches at next year's World Cup, including the first semi-final on July 10.

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