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Cleans continue: in Russia detained the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

Vadim Shamarin, Head of the Main Directorate of Communication of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, threatens 15 years of imprisonment. Deputy Valery Gerasimov is accused of receiving a bribe in particularly large size. In Russia, the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Shamarin Vadim Anatoliyovich was detained.

General had already been searched, and he was sent for questioning to the Chief Military Investigation Department of SKR. Shamarin is also the Deputy Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov. About it reports "Kommersant" with reference to their sources. Shamarin's case is considered in the 235th garrison military court. As in the case of a fraud -arrested case, General Ivan Popov, a case card appeared on the court website on May 22, which refers to the arrest of a person with hidden data.

Vadim Shamarin is suspected of receiving a bribe in a particularly large size (Part 6 290 of the Criminal Code). He can threaten up to 15 years in prison. The Source of the Kommersant in law enforcement agencies confirmed that a criminal case was a search in the criminal case. According to his results, Vadim Shamarin was taken for questioning to the Main Military Investigation Department of SCR.

And within a few hours, the 235th Garrison Military Court reported that the chief of the Main Directorate of Communications of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Vadim Shamarin, was arrested for two months in the case of bribery in a particularly large amount. "The court granted the request of the investigation to elect a preventive measure in the form of Vadim Shamarin," the court's press service said.

Interestingly, four years ago, a last deputy chief of the General Staff of Khalil Arslanov was arrested during the supply of equipment to the Armed Forces. The general was accused of receiving a bribe and two episodes of particularly large fraud in a total amount of about 6. 7 billion rubles. Shamarin himself in February 2024 distributed awards to the Center of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces.

And last year he opened a monument to Marshal's communication troops of Ivan Perespkin. We will remind, earlier the Deputy Minister of Defense Timur Ivanov and the head of the Main Department of Human Resources of the Ministry of Defense General Yuri Kuznetsov was detained and arrested. They are both accused of receiving a bribe in a particularly large size. On May 17, the former commander of the 58th Army of the Southern Military District of Ivan Popov was arrested in the case of fraud.