A deputy chief of the Russian army normal employees has been arrested on costs of large-scale bribery, Russian information studies mentioned Thursday, the most recent in a collection of bribery arrests of high-ranking army officers.
The arrest of Lieutenant-Normal Vadim Shamarin adopted the arrest this week of Maj Normal Ivan Popov, a former high commander in Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, additionally on bribery costs.
In April, Deputy Protection Minister Timur Ivanov was arrested for bribery. Ivanov was an in depth affiliate of Sergei Shoigu, whom President Vladimir Putin dismissed as protection minister quickly after Putin’s inauguration to a brand new time period in Might.
Lieutenant-Normal Yury Kuznetsov, head of the protection ministry’s personnel directorate, was arrested on bribery costs two days after Shoigu was changed.
Shamarin can also be the pinnacle of the protection ministry’s principal communications directorate. He’s being held in custody for 2 months, Russian information companies cited a army garrison court docket as saying, however different particulars of the case weren’t reported.
Shoigu had been broadly blamed for Russia’s failure to seize Kyiv early within the Ukraine preventing and was accused of incompetence and corruption by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who launched a mutiny in June 2023 to demand the dismissal of Shoigu and army chief of employees Gen Valery Gerasimov.
Lower than a month after Prigozhin’s failed rebellion, Popov was dismissed as commander of the 58th Military. He mentioned he had spoken to Shoigu about inadequate gear that had led to extreme Russian deaths, and that his dismissal was a “treacherous” stab within the again to Russian forces in Ukraine.
Popov’s forces had been preventing within the Zaporizhzhia area, some of the hotly contested areas within the Ukraine battle. His dismissal got here someday after the 58th Military’s command submit within the metropolis of Berdyansk was hit in a Ukrainian strike, killing a high-ranking normal.