[Regnum] Since the beginning of 2024, criminal cases of 88 people accused of corruption in the military-industrial complex have been sent to Russian courts, said the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin on August 6.
Of these, 48 people are defendants in criminal cases involving bribery, the head of the Russian Investigative Committee noted at an operational meeting.
In the first six months, the agency sent 14% more criminal cases on corruption to the courts than in the same period last year. These are mainly cases on bribery. The number of criminal cases brought against persons with special legal status has increased, the agency reported.
“It is necessary to promptly and clearly, in cooperation with operational investigative agencies, identify and strictly suppress theft and misuse of allocated funds, decisively counteract abuses by officials, and give a fundamental legal assessment of all violations of the law,” Bastrykin said.
In the spring and summer of this year, the Russian Investigative Committee opened a number of criminal cases on bribery, in which the defendants are individuals associated with the Ministry of Defense and the military-industrial complex.
Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Timur Ivanov, Head of the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Defense Yuri Kuznetsov, and Head of the Main Communications Directorate of the Armed Forces Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin were accused of accepting a bribe on an especially large scale. Former commander of the 58th Army Ivan Popov is under house arrest in a fraud case.
On July 26, the court arrested the former Deputy Minister of Defense, General Dmitry Bulgakov, in whose criminal case the Gryazinsky Food Plant and JSC Voentorg figure.
On August 5, the Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the article “Abuse of authority in the execution of a state defense order” (Article 201.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in connection with the supply of low-quality parts for military transport aircraft.
Today, August 6, the 235th Garrison Military Court arrested the former head of the Defense Ministry’s supply department, Vladimir Demchik.