Where does that $20 million go?

It’s been a commonly-held belief that people who pay to fly as tourists on Russian Soyuz missions to the ISS are helping the cash-strapped Russian space program. While Roskosmos may no longer be as desperate for money as it once was, it’s not clear exactly where those monies have gone. Reuters reports that Russian officials are questioning exactly how the funding provided by space tourists have been spent. The article reports that senior Finance Ministry official Sergei Pavlenko was “astonished” to find that Roskosmos “did not properly account for the money it made on space tourism”. Will this lead to any kind of backlash against allowing paying passengers on future Soyuz flights?