Moscow prosecutors have arrested the Head of a Russian aircraft company on suspicion of delivering faulty aircraft spare parts the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.

The Prosecutor-General’s Office said Alexander Surikov, the head of the SB-120 company at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, has been charged with supplying unsafe products and placed in custody.

Earlier in the course of the trial prosecutors have accused the company’s engineer Victor Gamayunov of forging technical documents in order to sell aircraft spares with expired service lifetimes.

The official probe against the company followed a number of aircraft crashes this year. In August, a Tu-154 jet belonging to Pulkovo Airlines crashed in Ukraine after encountering a storm, killing all 170 people aboard, and in July, an Airbus A310 belonging to airline S7 skidded off a runway and burst into flames in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing 124 people.

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