A source from the Cheka-OGPU reported that the wife of General Yuri Kuznetsov was released from the Investigative Committee. …

A source from the Cheka-OGPU reported that the wife of General Yuri Kuznetsov was released from the Investigative Committee. Two daughters of the chief personnel officer of the Ministry of Defense were also detained with them, but they were also sent home. According to relatives, nothing was explained to them, a search was conducted and cell phones were confiscated. In the presence of counterintelligence officers, the woman was forbidden to talk with Yuri Kuznetsov and even with each other. They searched the house especially carefully for documents.

235 garrison military court granted the investigation’s request to arrest the head of the main personnel department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Yuri Kuznetsov.

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He is accused of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The initiation of a criminal case against the general was confirmed by the Investigative Committee.

According to the investigation, in 2021–2023, as the head of the 8th Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Kuznetsov received a bribe from representatives of commercial structures for performing certain actions in their favor.

During searches at the places of actual residence and registration of the suspect, funds in rubles and foreign currency in the amount of more than 100 million rubles, gold coins, collectible watches and luxury items were discovered and seized.