The Moscow Garrison Military Court sentenced Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, who had previously organized the Deputy Chief of General Staff of the RF Armed Forces and the Head of the Department of Communication, to the seven -year -old strict regime colony in the corruption case.
Shamarin was deprived of a military rank, banned from occupation of positions in public service, and had 36 million ruble properties.
General’s lawyer Vladimir said Shepakhin RBCthat the defense will not object to the decision. Previously, the accusation sentenced Shamarin to 12 years in prison and fined 107 million rubles. Interface.
Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin was detained in May 2024 if he received a bribe in the implementation of the state defense order, especially on a large scale (Article 6 of the Russian Federation Penal Code). The investigation believes that the Perm telephone facility “Tetta” Alexei Vysokov is receiving 36 million rubles from the General Manager of Alexei Vysokov in exchange for assistance to increase the volume of product materials in accordance with the Ministry of Defense and General Protection Contracts from 2016 to 2023.
Shamarin is gone Agreement with investigation And partially found guilty, showing that he had taken 19 million rubles, not 36. He asked in March To direct In a special military operation zone.
Investigation against Vysokov and Elena Grishina, the chief accountant of the enterprise, is carried out separately. Both are arrested. After Shamarin’s testimony, the great general Alexander Ogloblin, who previously chaired the 1st office of the main communication directorate of the Ministry of Defense, was also detained. He claims that Ogloblin acts as a tool for the old head of the general personnel and that the bribe gets 10 million rubles from the total amount.
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In 2024, an anti -anti -corruption campaign in the Russian Ministry of Defense emerged, and as a result, criminal cases were established against several high rough officials and the army.
In April 2024, Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was arrested, accused of bribery worth 1 billion rubles.
Shortly after, Yuri Kuznetsov, the Main Directorate of Personnel of the Ministry of Defense, was detained- suspected of receiving 30 million rubles for personnel appointments.
In May, Ivan Popov, the former commander of the 58th army, was detained in case of fraud about the construction of fortifications. Later, during the construction of Patriarch Park, former Deputy Minister of Defense Pavel Popov suspected of theft, Vladimir Verthetsky President of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was arrested.
In the same case, Patriot Park Vyacheslav Akhmedov and director of General Vladimir Shestherov were detained. In September, Major General Valery Mumindzhanov was arrested on charges of bribery in more than 20 million rubles while making contracts for uniform supply.
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Source: Gazeta
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