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Russia detains ex-deputy minister accused of corruption by Navalny foundation
Russian justice has placed in preventive detention a deputy defense minister, Timur Ivanov, arrested for corruption and whose lifestyle was denounced in 2022 in an investigation by the organization of the opponent Alexei Navalny.
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Mundo Rússia
This is a rare case of the detention of a senior Russian military official, in the midst of the conflict with Ukraine.
In a statement published today, the press service of the Moscow courts indicated that Timur Ivanov will be in preventive detention for at least two months, until 23 June, while awaiting trial.
The detainee appeared at today's hearing dressed in military uniform and enclosed in a glass cage, according to images published by the Russian justice system.
According to a security source, cited anonymously by the Russian state agency TASS, Ivanov is in preventive detention in Lefortovo, a Moscow prison administered by the Russian security services (FSB, the agency that inherited the Soviet KGB).
Timur Ivanov is accused of "accepting bribes on a large scale", a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison, and an alleged accomplice, Sergei Borodin, was charged with the same accusations and was also placed in preventive detention.
Ivanov was responsible for the facilities of the Ministry of Defence and, according to investigators, was part of a corruption scheme within the scope of "carrying out contractual and subcontracting work for the needs of the Ministry of Defence".
At the end of 2022, Ivanov was the target of an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, created by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny and banned in Russia for "extremism".
According to this investigation, the deputy minister supervised and profited from construction projects in Mariupol, a Ukrainian port conquered and devastated by the Russian army in 2022.
The Russian authorities did not react to these revelations.
Timur Ivanov's ex-wife, Svetlana Ivanova, was a wealthy figure in the elite and, according to the investigation, some of her spending on luxury goods was paid for by companies later involved in the reconstruction of Mariupol.
The former Russian minister has been on the European Union's sanctions list since October 2022, but, according to an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, he divorced so that his wife could circumvent the sanctions.
Navalny's organisation has conducted several investigations of this kind, accusing senior state officials of corruption, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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