Russian deputy defense minister was remanded in custody for alleged large-scale bribery amid military spending surge and Ukraine offensive.
This grab from a handout footage taken and released by Moscow City Court press service on April 24, 2024 shows Timur Ivanov, Russian deputy DefenCe Minister, standing in a glass cage at the Basmanny District Court in Moscow.
Ivanov, 48, oversaw construction and procurement for the armed forces, and was linked to Russia’s high-profile rebuilding of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, occupied by Moscow’s forces. The court said investigators believe he was part of a “criminal conspiracy” to take a “bribe on a particularly large scale in the form of property services, during the course of contracting and subcontracting work for the defence ministry.”The judge sent him to pre-trial detention until at least June 23. He will be held at the notorious Lefortovo jail in Moscow, TASS reported.Campaigners, including Navalny, have long argued that corruption is endemic in Putin’s Russia.
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