Former head of Russian Academy of Sciences library arrested in Moscow on fraud charges
A Moscow court has ordered Oleg Shorin, former director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Library for Natural Sciences, held in custody on a large-scale fraud charge. The basis for the case has not been disclosed.
Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky District Court has ordered Oleg Shorin, the former director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Library for Natural Sciences, to be held in custody. According to the newspaper Kommersant, he is charged with large-scale fraud. What the accusation is based on is unknown.
Shorin left the post of library director in December 2023. In June of that year, Moscow's Khamovnichesky District Court had fined the library 141,000 rubles for misusing 2.8 million rubles in public funds, Kommersant reported.
The library told the newspaper it did not know why its former director was being prosecuted.
Career
Shorin graduated from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics at Lomonosov Moscow State University. From 2011 to 2018 he worked at the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg. He then became director of the Academy of Sciences' Library for Natural Sciences, where he worked on digitizing the library.
In 2023 he left that position and became director of digital transformation at Rently, where he was responsible for the strategic development of a cloud-based software-as-a-service platform.
