The military court arrested Deputy Chief of Logistics of the National Guard Major General Mirza Mirzaev on suspicion of bribery until January 2, reports TASS citing law enforcement agencies.
According to the Telegram channel Mash, 52-year-old Mirzaev demanded 140 million rubles from a supplier of modules for prefabricated buildings and "threatened to terminate a contract worth 480 million if the money was not provided." The company transferred the money to the general through an intermediary, and both were detained. Mirzaev's defense reportedly requested house arrest, but the court placed him in custody.
At the end of September, the military court arrested former head of the aviation-technical service of the aviation-technical base of the National Guard Colonel Oleg Gamayunov in a case of large-scale fraud. According to TASS, it involves a state defense order for the supply of aviation-technical complexes to the National Guard. The damage was estimated at more than 80 million rubles.
Since April 2024, three former deputy defense ministers have been detained in Russia on corruption charges — Dmitry Bulgakov, Timur Ivanov, and Pavel Popov.
In addition to them, criminal cases have been initiated against the head of the main personnel department of the Ministry of Defense Yuri Kuznetsov, Deputy Chief of the General Staff Vadim Shamarin, head of the department of defense orders of the Ministry of Defense Vladimir Verteletsky, former commander of the 58th Combined Arms Army of Russia Ivan Popov, director of the Central Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Leisure of the Armed Forces "Patriot" Vyacheslav Akhmedov, as well as Deputy Commander of the Leningrad Military District for logistics Valery Mumindzhanov.