Reported on May 23 by the reference news websiteAccording to Reuters on May 23, Russian media reported on the 23rd that Russia had arrested Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, the deputy chief of staff of the Russian armed forces, on suspicion of accepting bribes on a large scale.
This is the fourth time in a month since April 23 that Russia has arrested high-level defense officials. At that time, Deputy Minister of Defense Timur Ivanov was arrested on suspicion of taking bribes and entered the pretrial detention stage.
Since then, Lieutenant General Yuri Kuznetsov, Director of the General Personnel Department of the Ministry of National Defense, and Major General Ivan Popov, former commander of the 58th Army Group of Russia, have been successively arrested.
Reported that these arrests marked a great effort to eliminate corrupt activities related to the issuance of profitable military contracts.
The Kremlin said on the 23rd that the arrest of a senior Russian military officer is part of its consistent efforts to combat corruption.
The report quoted Kremlin spokesman Peskov as saying: "Combating corruption is a consistent work. It is not a movement, but an ongoing work, and it is an integral part of the actions of our law enforcement agencies."
Peskov said he could not comment on the details of the latest case.
He said that the fight against corruption "is still going on in all sectors, whether federal or local".(Compiled by Cao Weiguo and Zhao Feifei)
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