{"id":484,"date":"2024-04-24T08:33:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T08:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2024-04-26T14:33:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T14:33:49","slug":"details-emerge-of-high-level-russian-military-corruption-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/details-emerge-of-high-level-russian-military-corruption-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Details emerge of high-level Russian military corruption probe"},"content":{"rendered":"
Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov has been under suspicion for years, according to media reports<\/strong><\/p>\n The arrest of a senior Russian military official this week was the result of a lengthy corruption investigation, according to multiple media reports. Court proceedings on Wednesday revealed a second suspect in the same case.<\/p>\n Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was taken into custody in a surprise move on Tuesday evening. Hours earlier, he had participated in a top-level meeting which was chaired by Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.<\/p>\n Ivanov is suspected of large-scale bribe-taking, the Investigative Committee said, defined in the penal code as accepting corrupt payments amounting to over 1 million rubles (over $10,500).<\/p>\n A TASS law enforcement source said investigators had been pursuing Ivanov for a long time, “not since yesterday or a month ago.”<\/em> The news website lenta.ru reported that the probe had taken at least five years, according to its source.<\/p>\n Initial reports claimed that several suspected accomplices had been arrested alongside the deputy minister. One of them, identified as Sergey Borodin, was brought before a court in Moscow on Wednesday, where a judge ordered his pre-trial detention. <\/p>\n