The third former deputy minister of defense has ended up in pretrial detention

the third former deputy minister of defense has ended up in pretrial detention

Generals are being taken one after another

The military court arrested former Deputy Minister of Defense Pavel Popov for two months, until October 29: the army general is suspected of embezzling money from the military-patriotic park “Patriot”. The funds, the investigation believes, were used to build a general’s house in the Moscow region.

The case against the former high-ranking official was allegedly opened on the basis of testimony from those detained in early August and who admitted guilt in the machinations of the former director of the park. Vyacheslav Akhmedov and Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Innovative Development of the Ministry of Defense Vladimir Shesterov. On the day of detention Pavla Popova It became known that he was dismissed from military service by a presidential decree dated June 17.

According to the investigation, in 2021–2024, Popov, who was responsible for the development, maintenance, and operation of Patriot, together with his accomplices, “enriched himself at the expense of this institution.” Using the park’s money, the general carried out construction and repair work on his country property, and also supplied “various material assets” there. In addition, through his subordinates, he forced the heads of commercial organizations that had concluded contracts with the park to perform construction and installation work at their dacha free of charge. Later, Popov continued to provide technical and economic maintenance of his plot of about 3 hectares at the park’s expense.

Among other things, it turned out that the former deputy head of the Ministry of Defense and his family own many other properties in prestigious areas of Moscow and the Moscow region, as well as Krasnodar Krai, with a total value of more than 500 million rubles. The general himself calls all suspicions against him absurd.

Pavel Popov was called one of the closest associates of the former Minister of Defense Sergei Shoiguwhich is confirmed by some facts of his biography. He worked under Shoigu at the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and then followed his boss to the Ministry of Defense. Meanwhile, Popov is already the third former deputy head of the military department to be detained in recent months. Timur Ivanov was arrested in April in connection with a 1.2 billion ruble bribe case, Dmitry Bulgakov – in July on charges of fraud on an especially large scale.

evgeny mikhailov, director of the center for strategic studies of the south caucasus Evgeny Mikhailov, Director of the Center for Strategic Studies of the South Caucasus

Evgeny Mikhailov, Director of the Center for Strategic Studies of the South Caucasus

– Better late than never. The thing is that not only telegram channels wrote about their tricks, but several years before the SVO they were already talking about who, where, and how much they take. Apparently, the limit of patience was exceeded.

sergey mardan, publicist Sergey Mardan, publicist

Sergey Mardan, publicist

– Everyone focused on the Patriot Park, the construction of which he supervised, and the real estate he found worth 500 million rubles (apparently, this is according to the cadastral value). But the main thing in this story is that Popov was engaged in innovative research in the army. It is thanks to him that Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) has been collecting pennies for Chinese Maviks for the third year and making FPVis on its knee.

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