Moscow: A deputy chief of Russia’s military General Staff has been arrested on charges of large-scale bribery. This type of information has come to light after media reports. The arrest of Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin follows the arrest this week of Russia’s former top commander Major General Ivan Popov in Ukraine on bribery charges. The arrested Shamarin was also the head of the Defense Ministry’s Main Communications Directorate.
Continuous action has been taken
Russian news agencies, citing a military court, said he has been detained for two months, but other details of the case were not disclosed. Earlier, in April this year, Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was arrested on charges of bribery. Ivanov was a close aide of Sergei Shoigu. President Vladimir Putin dismissed Shoigu from the post of Defense Minister this month. Two days after Shoigu was removed, Lieutenant General Yuri Kuznetsov, head of the Defense Ministry’s Personnel Directorate, was arrested on charges of bribery.
‘No campaign against the army’
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the arrests of defense officials did not indicate a campaign against the military. “The fight against corruption is an ongoing task, it is not a campaign. It goes on continuously. It is an indispensable part of the activity of our law enforcement agencies,” Peskov said at a news conference on Thursday. Shoigu was widely blamed for Russia’s failure to capture Kiev early in the war with Ukraine and was accused of incompetence and corruption by private army commander Yevgeny Prigozhin. Prigozhin led a rebellion in June 2023, demanding the ouster of Shoigu and the removal of army chief Gen. Valery Gerasimov. (AP)
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