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Deputy Russian military chief of staff jailed for bribery in latest arrest of high defense official
Agence presse ^ | 23 May 2024 | Agence press

Posted on 05/23/2024 12:23:01 PM PDT by Cronos

A deputy chief of the Russian military general staff has been arrested on charges of large-scale bribery, Russian news reports said Thursday, the latest in a series of bribery arrests of high-ranking military officials.

The arrest of Lt. Gen. Vadim Shamarin followed the arrest earlier in the week of Maj. Gen. Ivan Popov, a former top commander in Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, also on bribery charges.

In April, Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was arrested for bribery. Ivanov was a close associate of Sergei Shoigu, whom President Vladimir Putin dismissed as defense minister soon after Putin’s inauguration to a new term in May. Lt. Gen. Yury Kuznetsov, head of the Defense Ministry’s personnel directorate, was arrested on bribery charges two days after Shoigu was replaced.

Shamarin, the latest officer to be arrested, is also the head of the Defense Ministry’s main communications directorate. He is being held in custody for two months, Russian news agencies cited a military garrison court as saying, but other details of the case were not reported.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: 3daywar; imshockedshocked; putinsfolly; yetmorecorruption
The purge
1 posted on 05/23/2024 12:23:01 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Poland next


2 posted on 05/23/2024 12:23:37 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Nah Ivan, you watch your neighbourhood in Sankt Petersburg


3 posted on 05/23/2024 12:28:56 PM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Cronos

Will Poland fight back?


4 posted on 05/23/2024 12:29:43 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Cronos

Thought he could get away with acting like a Ukrainazi politician.


5 posted on 05/23/2024 12:33:12 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Cronos
Perhaps it's the truth. We most likely will never know the truth, but Zeepers will automatically question it as being the purge, or some other nefarious, reason right off the bat. Placing blame upon Putin for the nefarious act, of course. Who knows that may be the truth. If we actually had a press that was truthful & honest we might be able to eventually uncover the truth.

But we don't, so we won't.

6 posted on 05/23/2024 12:34:55 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Details matter:

>>In April, Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was arrested for bribery. Ivanov was a close associate of Sergei Shoigu, whom President Vladimir Putin dismissed as defense minister soon after Putin’s inauguration to a new term in May. Lt. Gen. Yury Kuznetsov, head of the Defense Ministry’s personnel directorate, was arrested on bribery charges two days after Shoigu was replaced.>>

Shoigu was promoted to Secretary of the Russian Security Council, replacing a guy named Petrushev, who is 72 years old.

This was not a dismissal.


7 posted on 05/23/2024 12:35:52 PM PDT by Owen (.)
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To: JonPreston

Will you guys in Sankt Petersburg rise against Putin? Or stay in his pocket?


8 posted on 05/23/2024 1:34:59 PM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Cronos

Poland next. Zero resistance.


9 posted on 05/23/2024 1:36:48 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Owen

“Shoigu was promoted to Secretary of the Russian Security Council, replacing a guy named Petrushev, who is 72 years old.

This was not a dismissal.”

This is like a CEO “promoting” his manufacturing COO to a spot on the Board of Directors.


10 posted on 05/23/2024 1:38:06 PM PDT by riverdawg
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To: JonPreston

You guys living in Sankt Petersburg keep repeating the nonsensical Putinist propaganda.

Hows the weather there, towarisch?


11 posted on 05/23/2024 1:55:50 PM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Cronos

Will Polish men resist The Putin when he pushes West? Will you fight or flee?


12 posted on 05/23/2024 2:39:10 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

More than you guys in Sankt Petersburg who associate with Putin


13 posted on 05/23/2024 8:10:24 PM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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