Posted on 07/18/2024 9:29:49 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
A top Russian general has been formally dismissed from his post after being arrested on bribery charges in May, according to Russian state media.
Lt Gen Vadim Shamarin was arrested amid a wider crackdown on corruption in the defence ministry and was accused of taking "a particularly large bribe" from a telecommunications company.
Prior to his arrest he had served as deputy chief of the army’s general staff overseeing the signals corps and military communications.
Prosecutors have accused him of taking bribes between April 2016 and October 2023 to ensure an increase in orders from the company's factory.
A military court in Moscow will decide later on Thursday whether to extend his pre-trial detention until October.
His lawyer, Igor Dyukin, told the RIA Novosti outlet that authorities had seized his client's car - a Mercedes - and frozen his salary card.
Lt Gen Shamarin was arrested amid a wider crackdown on senior military officials. A host of senior defence ministry staff has been detained in recent months, including Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov and Lt Gen Yuri Kuznetsov, head of the defence ministry’s personnel directorate.
It comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed his long-term Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu in May.
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Poor guy must not have given his superiors their cut. Corruption goes on 24/7 in D.C.
American troops don’t have to eat rotten food or civilian vehicles because their commanders stole everything they could. Russians do. It’s bad.
>>>>That is one flabby tub of feces. Geez dude... some pride. Even Ike didn’t look like Jaba the Hutt when he was President....
Put down the donuts and twinkies and hit the f’ing gym.<<<<
Being a flabby tub, IMHO, shows a lack of self discipline.
Just what America needs: Generals with no self discipline. </s>
Do those civilian vehicles get stuck in what's left of the Russian soldiers' teeth?
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