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2024-05-24 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Russian General Staff Purges News Roundup for May 23rd, 2024
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
The unofficial word on the multitude of bribery cases involving top Russian Ministry of Defense officials is that a separate wing of the Lubyanka -- the notorious NKVD/KGB prison -- in Moskva is being built to house all the detainees involved.
As you will see below, the investigations involving bribery have been ongoing since last year, so there is little indication of when the investigations will be complete.
An employee of the Russian Defense Ministry department for state defense procurement was detained in Moscow
[Regnum] In Moscow, Vladimir Verteletsky, head of the Department of the Ministry of Defense for Providing Defense Orders, was detainedon suspicion of taking a bribe. Izvestia writes about this with reference to sources.
According to the publication, Verteletsky helped the businessman obtain a government order and received a house and a car as a bribe.
As Regnum reported, on the same day it became known that the Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Head of the Main Communications Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, General Vadim Shamarin, had been arrested for two months. He is accused of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The accused faces up to 15 years in prison.
On May 14, it became known that a criminal case was opened against the head of the main personnel department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Yuri Kuznetsov, under the article of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). He was arrested. During the searches, about 100 million rubles, jewelry and a collection of watches were found on Kuznetsov. The defense appealed the arrest. Later it became known that, according to the investigation, Kuznetsov received a bribe in the form of a cottage on Griboyedov Street in Krasnodar worth about 30 million rubles.
On April 24, the court arrested Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov on charges of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. According to the investigation, Ivanov, having entered into a criminal conspiracy, received property benefits from contracting and subcontracting work for the needs of the military department. The Deputy Minister of Defense did not admit his guilt in committing the crime.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov at a briefing on May 23 called the fight against corruption a consistent work of law enforcement agencies.
More from regnum.ru
The Investigative Committee revealed details of the accusation against the ex-commander of the 58th Army of the Armed Forces Ivan Popov
Investigators are requesting the transfer of the former commander of the 58th Combined Arms Army, Ivan Popov, from custody to house arrest. He is suspected of theft of more than 1,700 tons of metal structures, official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee Svetlana Petrenko reported on May 23.
The Main Military Investigation Department of the Russian Investigative Committee believes that Popov, suspected of fraud, can have his preventive measure changed. This is due to the characteristics of the person involved and other circumstances established during the investigation.
“According to the investigation, Popov was involved in the theft in 2023 of more than 1,700 tons of rolled metal products purchased by the military-civil administration of the Zaporozhye region as part of the provision of humanitarian aid,” Petrenko is quoted as saying on the department’s Telegram channel.
She added that the metal structures were intended for the construction of defensive fortifications. Their cost exceeds 130 million rubles.
As Regnum reported, on May 21 the court arrested General Popov for two months. The criminal case is being investigated under the article of fraud committed by an organized group on an especially large scale.
Ivan Popov’s father, in a conversation with the agency, stated that his son was not guilty of anything. Popov Sr. is convinced that ill-wishers deliberately “digged” for the general. He called the current situation a “set-up.”
Popov’s colleagues also do not believe in the version of the security forces. The soldiers are convinced that the general could not steal from his own people. According to them, he “jumped into the trenches with ordinary privates.”
According to the source, an apartment in Rostov-on-Don worth from 3.5 million to 6.2 million rubles was registered in the name of the arrested major general. Popov also registered two cars - a 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander (average price 1.5 million rubles) and a Cruze Chevrolet (approximate cost 500 thousand rubles). In 2020, Popov’s salary was 75 thousand rubles.
Popov commanded the 58th Combined Arms Army in 2023. Previously, he was the chief of staff of the 22nd Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces in Crimea and the chief of staff of the 11th Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kaliningrad region.
Even more from regnum.ru
Those involved in the case of General Shamarin have been under arrest since the summer of 2023
The defendants in the criminal case of bribery of the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General Vadim Shamarin, General Director of the Perm Telephone Plant Telta OJSC Alexey Vysokov and the chief accountant of this enterprise Elena Grishina have been under arrest since the summer of 2023 on charges of fraud, it follows from the case materials.
“By the resolution of the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow dated March 14, 2024, Grishina E.V. and Vysokov A.P. extended the period of detention for 2 months 13 days, and in total up to 10 months 13 days, that is, until June 2, 2024 ", the court ruling says.
According to investigators, from April 2016 to October 2023, Shamarin received a bribe from Vysokov and Grishina in the amount of 36 million rubles for increasing the volume of products supplied under government contracts for the needs of the Ministry of Defense and general patronage. Shamarin used the funds received at his own discretion, the Investigative Committee added.
As reported by IA Regnum, the detention of 52-year-old Shamarin became known on May 23. On the same day, he was arrested for two months by a military court in the case of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. Searches were carried out in his apartment.
The Kremlin explained the lieutenant general’s detention as a “fight against corruption”; the details of the case have not yet been disclosed. Shamarin could face up to 15 years in prison.
According to Vadim Shamarin’s official declaration, from 2011 to 2018, he earned from 1,975,264 to 3,119,610 rubles per year. His wife's official income ranged from 133,977 to 872,882 rubles per year. The serviceman's wife, according to official data, owned a 2013 Toyota RAV-4.
The police are also checking Shamarin for involvement in similar crimes. The investigation continues to actively collect evidence in the case of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale.
Yet more, again from regnum.ru
The court left the chief personnel officer of the Ministry of Defense Yuri Kuznetsov under arrest
The head of the main personnel department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Yuri Kuznetsov, accused of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale, will remain under arrest. This decision was made on May 23 by the Second Western District Military Court, Izvestia writes.
The court left the decision of the first instance regarding the preventive measure against Kuznetsov unchanged. Previously, he was placed in custody for two months.
Lawyer Sergei Shcheglov asked that Kuznetsov be under house arrest in a house in the Istra district of the Moscow region. One of the owners of this home is the general’s wife.
Kuznetsov also asked to be released from custody. He said that he undermined his health when he eliminated the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Related from regnum.ru
Investigators from the Investigative Committee will appear in court in the case of record bribes
Former head of the investigative department of the Russian Investigative Committee for Moscow, Marat Tambiev, as well as former investigator Kristina Lyakhovenko, will stand trial on charges of record bribes. Kommersant reports this
The material says that Tambiev is accused of ten counts of receiving bribes in the amount of more than one and a half million dollars and 2,718 bitcoins (about 7.3 billion rubles). Moreover, according to investigators, Tambiev also tried to enrich himself by another 1.3 million dollars (about 117 million rubles).
At the same time, according to investigators, senior lieutenant Lyakhovenko acted as an accomplice of Tambiev. She is accused of receiving a bribe, abuse of power, and falsifying evidence in a criminal case.
It is noted that the Balashikha court will consider the criminal case. The publication explains that initially the trial was supposed to take place in Moscow, but the Prosecutor General’s Office petitioned the Supreme Court to change the territorial jurisdiction, justifying this by the fact that Tambiev “has acquired connections in the judiciary of Moscow.” The Supreme Court granted the request of the Prosecutor General.
As Regnum reported, in June last year the Nikulinsky Court of Moscow seized more than a thousand bitcoins from Tambiev.
In 2022, Tambiev received a bribe from the hacker group Infraud Organization. The hackers did this with the aim of stopping the case against some of them that was pending.
The alleged bribe was discovered during a search of the investigator’s apartment, where they also found a laptop, which was only hacked several months later. In it, investigators saw a folder called “Pension”, which contained a photo of a sheet of paper with codes that allowed Tambiev to gain access to 932.1 and 100 bitcoins.
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