Is Corruption a National Security Threat?

 Yesterday it was announced that the General Public Prosecutor Office of the Russian Federation has established the fact of plunder of the budgetary funds allocated for repair of a nuclear-powered  missile cruiser "Peter the Great". Criminal proceedings was  instituted against  that the general director of the repair service сompany "Zvezdochka" which has received the order for repair work,.

The Military Office of Public Prosecutor of Northern fleet  discovered that the general director of Joint-Stock Company "Special technological base" Zvezdochka" in Murmansk area Mr. Feodor Barashko had fraudulently stolen 265,4 million rubles ( about $9 million) out of 356,1 million rubles of the budgetary funds allocated within the limits of the state defensive order for payment of repair works.

The nuclear-powered cruiser "Peter the Great" is a leader of Northern fleet of the Navy of the Russian Federation. It is unique in a system a nuclear-powered  missile cruiser of the third generation. For today it is the biggest in the world the operating non-carrier  striking fighting ship. http://top.rbc.ru/society/15/07/2011/605875.shtmlhttp://top.rbc.ru/society/15/07/2011/605875.shtml

I suppose to commit such a crime is impossible without participation in it a part of the cruiser's command and officials from financing and survey organizations.