Putin does not forgive: more generals arrested in Russia - bribery, fraud, embezzlement

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According to the report, former deputy head of the Russian National Guard Viktor Strigunov has been detained in Moscow; a case has been opened against him for abuse of office and accepting bribes on an especially large scale.According to the investigation, in the fall of 2014, a state contract was concluded between the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and OOO SU Remstroytorg for the construction of a training center in the Kemerovo Region. Control over the terms of its implementation was assigned to Viktor Strigunov. From 2012 to 2016, he headed the Siberian Regional Command of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and after the creation of the Russian National Guard, he became the commander of the Siberian District of the Russian National Guard."In 2014, Viktor Strigunov, having information about the existence of restrictions on the use of the training center due to the discrepancy between the area of the allocated land plot and the insignificant distance from the airport, gave instructions to subordinate officials to organize its construction," the investigative agency said, noting that the training center was not put into operation, and the state suffered damages in the amount of over 2 billion rubles. In addition, the case says that in 2012-2014, he allegedly received bribes from entrepreneurs in the amount of over 66 million rubles for general patronage in the implementation of large state contracts for construction work. It is not yet known whether Viktor Strigunov admitted guilt.

The report also stated that in January 2020, President Vladimir Putin appointed a new first deputy head of the Russian National Guard. He was Colonel General Viktor Strigunov, who had previously headed the troops of the National Guard of the Siberian District. Already in 2023, he was transferred to adviser to the director of the Russian National Guard, Viktor Zolotov.A former deputy chief of the Russian army's General Staff, Colonel General Khalil Arslanov, was sentenced to 17 years in prison on July 7 over a scheme involving the theft of over 1 billion roubles or $12.7 million from Defense Ministry contracts, Russia's state-owned TASS news agency reported.A closed-door military court found Arslanov and others guilty of embezzling millions from state contracts with Voentelecom, a company providing telecommunications services to the Russian military.Arslanov was also convicted of extorting a 12 million rouble or $152,400 bribe from the head of a military communications company. Two co-defendants, Colonel Pavel Kutakhov and military pensioner Igor Yakovlev, received seven and six years in prison, respectively.Arslanov, a former head of the Russian military's communications unit, served as deputy chief of the army's General Staff from 2013 until his removal in 2020 and was named a colonel general in 2017.

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