As we previously reported on the indicator, the 235th Military Garrison Court placed Lieutenant General Vajim Samarin, Head of the Main Group of Information Technology of the Armed Forces and Deputy Chief of Staff, in pre-trial detention on charges of accepting a bribe to a private person. high value. Russian media reported on Thursday that the court decided on Wednesday to pretrial detention for two months.
If the general is found guilty, he can be sentenced to eight to fifteen years in prison and pay one hundred times the amount of the bribe.
Svetlana Petrenko, spokeswoman for the Investigative Committee of Russia (SZK), said: Samarin is accused of accepting a bribe of 36 million rubles (about 144 million Hungarian forints) from Alexei Visokov, general director of the Tilta phone factory in Perm and president of the company. Accountant, from April 2016 to October 2023. From Jelena Gresina, in exchange for increased military orders. Both Visokov and Gresina were arrested in this case.
Samarin was born in 1971 in Taganrog. He graduated from the Military Command Radio College in Novocherkassk, then the Military Radio Academy, after which he served in various positions in the Far Eastern Military District since 1992. In 2010 he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff for Information Technology of the Eastern Military District. Since 2021, he holds the position of Head of the Main Information Technology Group of the Russian Armed Forces, and Deputy Chief of Staff. He received the Second Order of Merit for Service to the Nation. degree.
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Late Thursday afternoon, Petrenko also announced that Vladimir Verteliki, head of the Russian Defense Ministry's State Procurement Department, had also been detained on charges of abuse of office. According to the military investigative bodies of the SZK, Vertyelecki accepted an unfulfilled research and design order in 2022, which caused damage worth 70 million rubles (about 280 million forints). In the criminal case, the authorities conducted several house searches.
Over the past month, several generals have been detained in Russia, including Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, head of the Military Ministry's Personnel Department Yuri Kuznetsov, and Ivan Popov, former commander of the 58th Army of the Southern Military District. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday that this is not a campaign, but an ongoing battle against corruption by law enforcement agencies, which is ongoing at all levels of the state's institutional system.
Ivanov was arrested at the end of April on suspicion of accepting nearly 1.2 billion rubles (about 4.8 billion Hungarian forints) in bribes. According to the investigation, Defense Ministry companies “conducted construction and repair work at facilities believed to be owned by Ivanov without compensation.” Ivanov, who has been suspended from his position, has pleaded not guilty.
Kuznetsov is accused of accepting a total of 30.5 million rubles (about 121 million Hungarian forints) in bribes from businessman Lyova Martirosyan. According to the investigation, General Martirosyan helped sign contracts with the Krasnodar Military College named after Army General Stemenko to provide hotel services for 372 million rubles (almost one and a half billion forints). During the search of the general's house, according to the Investigative Committee of Russia (SZK), cash, gold coins, expensive watches and other luxury items worth more than 100 million rubles (about 400 million forints) were found.
Popov was arrested on May 17 in a fraud case that caused huge damage. According to the newspaper “Vedomosztei”, the former commander is suspected of embezzling and selling metal structures intended for the construction of fortifications. The general pleaded not guilty.
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