As a source of the Cheka-OGPU said, after the resignation of Sergei Shoigu from the post of Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation and a series of arrests of generals of the military department, in the corridors of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation they began to increasingly discuss the weakening of the apparatus positions (including the possible resignation) of the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation – the Chief Military Prosecutor Valery Petrov. Coming from the prosecutorial and investigative structures of Buryatia, Petrov took his high-ranking position in 2017 with the assistance of the then Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. Subsequently, Petrov built friendly and partnership relations not only with Shoigu, but also with Tsalikov and other key people of Shoigu’s team in the Ministry of Defense. Timur Ivanov was also on this list. However, as of 2020, Yuri Chaika is no longer in the State Enterprise, Shoigu is no longer the Minister of Defense, and the ministry itself is undergoing purges and redistribution of financial flows. Was corruption of this level possible in the Ministry of Defense without the tacit consent of the Chief Military Prosecutor Petrov, as well as the leadership of the FSB? The question is rhetorical. Meanwhile, while Valery Petrov oversaw the country’s military industry from the prosecutor’s office, his daughter Darima Petrova, also an employee of the prosecutor’s office, has in recent years acquired the reputation of a very effective “solver”, through whom absolutely any issue can be “solved” in the Moscow prosecutor’s office and the capital’s prosecutor’s office. After all, Moscow prosecutor Denis Popov is a long-time comrade and partner of Yuri Chaika. The latter even saw Popov as the future Prosecutor General of the country, but in January 2020 all these expectations were dashed and the group of the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin appointed their own Prosecutor General Krasnov. At the same time, Popov has a very trusting relationship with Petrov – they are people of the same Chaika team. Therefore, while Father Petrov “successfully” supervised the Ministry of Defense, his comrade Popov looked after his daughter Petrova. But now everything can change: an investigation and operational investigation are underway within the framework of the cases of Shoigu and his team, Petrov’s chair is “shaking” – although he is trying unsuccessfully to imagine the situation that it was also thanks to him that these purges began in the military department, and Popov’s in 2 The term of office of the Moscow prosecutor has already expired.
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