Russia arrested the Deputy Chief of the Army General Staff, Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, because this official was suspected of accepting large-scale bribes.
Russia arrested Deputy Chief of the Army General Staff, Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin yesterday, May 22. He will be detained for 2 months awaiting trial.
Mr. Shamarin is suspected of accepting large-scale bribes. The authorities searched Mr. Shamarin’s private home.
Mr. Shamarin was taken for questioning at the Central Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and the case is being tried at military court No. 235. If convicted, Mr. Shamarin could receive a sentence up to 15 years in prison.
Mr. Shamarin, 53 years old, is the head of the General Directorate of Communications of the Russian Armed Forces and also Deputy Chief of the Army General Staff.
If confirmed, this will be the fourth arrest of a high-ranking defense official in Russia since April. Last month, the court also issued an arrest warrant for Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov on charges of receiving bribes. exposed up to 1 billion rubles related to construction projects.
Lieutenant General Yury Kuznetsov, head of the General Personnel Department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, was arrested last week on charges of accepting bribes.
Next, according to TASS news agency, Major General Ivan Popov, former commander of the 58th Army, was arrested on May 17 by order of a military court. Mr. Popov is accused of being involved in a large-scale fraud plot to supply construction materials to Russian military fortifications stationed in Zaporizhia province, southern Ukraine.
