“According to the British Ministry of Defense, the Russian authorities are likely to limit corruption to more controlled levels that have a less impact on the functioning of the department”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the British Ministry of Defense, Ivanov is the most famous figure, convicted by the Russian government for stealing funds with high -ranking officials below the level of executive power or the Cabinet of Ministers, and the persecution also touched by several other high -ranking officials who, like Ivanov, have close ties with the former Minister of Defense. Shoigu was dismissed from the post of Minister of Defense on May 12, 2024 and transferred to the post of Secretary of the Security Council of Russia.
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On July 1, the former Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was found guilty of stealing and laundering and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Prior to his arrest in April 2024, Ivanov was responsible for the significant projects of military construction and procurement, including the reconstruction of the Nazo -occupied Ukrainian territories.
The second accused in the case – the former head of the company “Defense” Anton Filatov – was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison with a fine.
The Russian edition of RBC wrote that the sentence was recognized as the defendants in appropriation of 216.6 million rubles when buying ferries for Kerch crossing, as well as in theft and washing and washing of 3.9 billion rubles, which previously belonged to the Intercommets Bank.
Intelligence of the United Kingdom called the arrest in Russia the Deputy Minister of Defense Timur Ivanov on suspicion of corruption “the most serious scandal in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation after in November 2012 was resigned by the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov.”