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The arrest of a senior defense official on bribery suspicions signals Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s diminishing status and the rising influence of the security services, two sources in the Russian government and a person close to the Kremlin told The Moscow Times. All spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic.
Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was arrested on charges of high treason, not merely corruption as initially reported, according to two independent sources cited by the Russian news outlet Vazhnye Istorii on April 24.
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Deputy minister Timur Ivanov suspected of bribe-taking in Russia’s highest-profile corruption case since Ukraine invasion
Another person involved in the case was arrested along with him.
A Russian court on Wednesday ordered one of Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu’s deputies to be kept in custody on suspicion of taking bribes, the highest-profile corruption case since President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in 2022. | Pulse Ghana