Lyudmila Zhernovskaya22:19, 04/23/24

He faces up to 15 years in prison.

In Russia, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Timur Ivanov was detained on suspicion of taking a bribe .

“On suspicion of committing a crime under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (taking a bribe), Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Ivanov Timur Vadimovich was detained. The necessary investigative actions are being carried out,” the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported in the evening.

“Pearl of the South” reports that security forces are carrying out “special events” at his dacha in Dagestan. According to them, Ivanov is suspected of receiving a bribe of at least 1 million rubles, and he faces up to 15 years in prison. Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that he was informed about Ivanov’s detention and also informed Shoigu in advance.

Ivanov was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Defense in May 2016. He deals with issues related to property management and quartering of troops, housing and medical support for the army, and is also responsible for the construction, reconstruction and overhaul of Ministry of Defense facilities and military mortgages.

He is under sanctions from the United States of America, the European Union, Great Britain, Australia, Japan, Ukraine, Switzerland and New Zealand due to a full-scale war against Ukraine.

In 2019, Ivanov entered the TOP of the richest security officials in Russia according to Forbes . His family income for 2018 was estimated at 136.7 million rubles.

What they say about Ivanov’s arrest in Russia:

The BRIEF Telegram channel writes that the head of the private military company Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, called Ivanov a “treasury thief” and criticized him under Putin. The deputy minister also had a conflict with the Federal Security Service.

“After Prigozhin’s death, Ivanov himself was actively involved in the fate of the material assets of the head of the PMC. There was talk that Ivanov demanded that Prigozhin Jr. transfer control of oil and gas fields in Syria and diamond deposits in the Central African Republic, which are controlled by the Wagner PMC,” the report says.

The source of the Cheka-OGPU project calls Ivanov’s detention a “catastrophic blow to Shoigu”: “If he doesn’t pull it out, he’ll sit next to him. This is 100% just his man. They’ve been together since 2010.”

(C)UNIAN 2024